The lower house of the Dutch Parliament examined on Thursday, February 4, the dual citizenship of Dutch-Moroccans, at the request of a member of the Democrats 66 party. Jan Paternotte's proposal indicates that «400,000 Dutch people of Moroccan origin must be able to renounce their Moroccan citizenship», wrote Dutch newspaper Volkskrant. Nahima Lanjri, a Belgian MP of Moroccan origin from the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V), who submitted a similar proposal to
According to the results of a poll conducted in January by the Social and Media Studies (IESM), 60% of Moroccans do not trust political parties while 81.3% say that money influences election results.
The Polisario is angered by the African Men's Handball Championship, scheduled for 2022 in Laayoune and Guelmim. On Wednesday, the separatist movement’s «Minister of Information» Hamada Salma Al-Daf denounced Morocco’s plan to host the 25th edition of the tournament in the Sahara. Speaking to Algerian press agency (APS), the Polisario slammed Morocco and accused it of trying to «change the status quo and to deceive public opinion about its alleged sovereignty over
Morocco’s Minister of Energy, Mines and the Environment Aziz Rabbah defended, Wednesday, the normalization of diplomatic ties between the Kingdom and Israel. Invited to a TV show by 2M, the Justice and Development Party Minister did not rule out the possibility of going to Israel on an official visit to assume his responsibilities as a minister. «Me as Aziz Rabbah, I have nothing to do there», he said, stressing that his opinion did not change. Rabbah, who was the PJD's
Moroccan justice has dropped all charges against Mauritanian billionaire Mohamed Ould Bouamatou. The businessman was prosecuted for posting to social media false Moroccan passports of former president Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz and his wife, recalls Le360. «The Kingdom of Morocco is against this gross aberration. The preliminary investigations made it possible, in fact, to note that these so-called passports are non-existent at the level of the database of the competent
President Macky Sall to take over as the Chairperson of the African Union for the period 2022-2023, indicates the Senegalese presidency on its Facebook page. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) endorsed Senegal's candidacy at the end of an extraordinary summit online on Tuesday, February 2. The election of Macky Sall will be formalized on February 6 during the AU 34th ordinary summit. Senegal will thus take over after the Democratic Republic of the Congo was
774 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 473,047. 308,398 people have received the vaccine against Covid-19. 933 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 451,780. 14 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,323. 4 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region,
Spain’s ambassador to Rabat Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner was summoned, Wednesday, by the Moroccan Governmnet over a violent intervention of police against a Moroccan migrant at a minor reception center in Tafira, Las Palmas. Morocco expressed concern over this intervention which was filmed and posted to social media, well-informed sources told Spanish news agency EFE. According to Canarian media, the video was shot after police were called to intervene as a minor was threatening
While the Moroccan government prefers a «gradual process», Israel would like to establish full diplomatic ties as soon as possible, Chargé d’Affaires David Govrin said.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Oxford suggest that a single dose of the AstraZeneca's vaccine would be 76% effective between three weeks and three months.
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