On April 14, the first day of the month of Ramadan, Polish national Aleksandra Garbacz succumbed to her injuries in an Essaouira hospital, following a serious road accident. President of the municipality of El Hanchane, the defendant will be subjected to prosectution in both countries.
National police officers in the province of Albacete have dismantled an organization run by two families and with the support of the head of an agency specialized in immigration procedures. According to El Digital de Albacete, which quotes the police on Friday, this network used agricultural companies to exploit workers, mostly of Moroccan origin. A total of three searches were carried out and 11 people were arrested. The investigation began in October 2020 with the location
Morocco’s Ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale and Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan co-chaired on Thursday a high-level online conference on food security and innovative agriculture. Co-organized by the permanent missions of Morocco and Israel to the UN, the meeting took place on the sidelines of the 54th session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. Speaking on this occasion, the Moroccan ambassador to the UN noted that this Moroccan-Israeli
An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hit earlier on Friday, April 23, at 1:59 am near the city of Essaouira, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The quake was located at an intermediate depth of 80 kilometers. According to Volcano Discovery, «towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Essaouira (pop. 70,600) located 51 km from the epicenter».
The leading figure of the Hirak Nasser Zefzafi announced on Thursday his resignation from the leadership of the movement. In a letter sent from his cell in the Tangier prison and shared by his father Ahmed Zefzafi, he explained that he «renounces the heavy responsibility» of the role imposed by the situation at the time. «I leave room for others, hoping that they succeed where I failed», he added. As for the reasons behind his decision, Nasser Zefzafi, sentenced to
After Jeune Afrique revealed that Brahim Ghali is hospitalized in Spain, the Polisario was forced to react with contradictory versions.
600 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 507,938. 4,707,658 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,207,298 people have received the second. 520 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 493,873. 7 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of
Morocco has gone down in the «Energy Transition Index for 2021» recently released by the World Economic Forum, losing five places compared to last year's report.
The Sahrawi Peace Movement commemorated its first anniversary by organizing an online conference on Wednesday, April 21 in Laayoune. Former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was once again the special guest of the event. On this occasion, he urged Sahrawis to favor a «realistic» political solution, arguing that «the policy, if it is not realistic, it is something else, perhaps a dream or a destructive utopia», reports EFE news
On Wednesday, April 21, dozens of demonstrators hit the streets, chanting, «the people want to earn a living» in Fnideq. They demanded, once again, the reopening of the borders with Ceuta to resume informal trade. In the absence of a solution provided by the authorities, the protest could resume on Friday 23 April. Since the first anger of the inhabitants of Fnideq on February 5, the wilaya of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region has launched programs for the benefit of
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