The National Authority for Integrity, Prevention and the Fight against Corruption indicates that corruption was more prevalent due to the current health crisis.
Algeria has launched a new diplomatic plan to counter Morocco’s recent successes in the region. This plan is mainly aimed at Mauritania and Tunisia.
Weeks after the United States recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has recently published on its website a complete map of Morocco that includes the Sahara. A decision that angered the Polisario Front. Indeed, the Polisario Front announced this week that it will ask for «explanations from NATO» on its publication of this new map of Morocco. Speaking to the Algerian news agency APS, Al-Bachir Mustafa Sayed described
The Moroccan army reportedly fired warning shots against a group of gold diggers near border separating Morocco from Mauritania on Tuesday. According to the Mauritanian private news agency Alakhbar, the incident took place near Bir Moghreïn, a town of northern Mauritania. Well-informed sources told the agency that «the prospectors' cars approached the sand wall built by the Moroccan army». «No casualties were recorded during the shooting»
Two weeks before leaving office, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on his Twitter that the Trump administration’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is a massive «breakthrough for peace». For decades, U.S. Administrations failed to resolve the conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara, because they didn't want to take risks. We did, in the interest of peace. pic.twitter.com/JeJphUtsw3 — Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January
1,637 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 445,439. 1,736 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 416,708. 43 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 7,581. 10 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 7 in Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima, 7 in
The head of the Moroccan Observatory Against Normalization, Ahmed Ouihmane, said the «Zionists aspire to establish a Jewish state in Morocco». The anti-normalization activist, inspired by several conspiracy theories, claimed that Hirak protests in Al Hoceima would have been part of a «Zionist plan».
The director of Marrakech Sofitel hotel, as well as the manager of its nightclub, have been arrested for not complying with health measures during New Year’s Eve. Celebrating the start of 2021, the hotel hosted a gathering that included 70 people. The two men breached the night curfew, imposed by the authorities throughout the country to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus. Neglecting a first notice and a reminder of the measures adopted by the local authorities, the manager of the
Montreal public security vice-president, Abdelhaq Sari, admitted on Monday that he is in Morocco, after being approached by TVA Nouvelles following several emails received to announce his presence in the Kingdom. The elected official explained, in an email sent to the same source, that his presence in Morocco was «in no way» a stay devoted to leisure, reports Journal de Montreal. The city councilor of the district of Marie-Clarac flew to Morocco to assist his mother, a
Up to 1,876 recovery cases judged each day en bloc in an «autopilot» mode, each of the judges pinned down returned to a «human» pace. Said judges have adopted a more sensible pace when dealing with similar cases at the Casablanca Court of First Instance.