After she left him, a New Jersey man has set up an elaborate plan to kidnap his ex-girlfriend and sail to Morocco, a federal complaint read. The 36-year-old man, George Mandarakas, started stalking his ex-girlfriend after she left him for lying about his age. He then planned to kidnap her using «a stun gun and ropes before possibly setting sail to Cuba or Morocco», Law&Crime reported on Wednesday. Mandarakas and the woman in question started dating back in 2019.
The Mauritanian government has confirmed the death of four of its nationals in the buffer zone in Western Sahara, local media reported. «Gold miners have been targeted outside the borders», lamented the Minister of Oil and Mines and Mauritanian spokesperson told media. Nani Ould Chrougha clarified that the mission of the Mauritanian State is limited to «securing the national territorial space». For the record, the Mauritanian
Two Moroccan MPs have lost their parliament seats, according to a decision by the Constitutional Court. The decision was announced on Wednesday, January 3. The MPs in question are House of Representatives member Said Zaidi from the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), who was also head of the Cherrat commune. The other MP in question is Abdelkader Boussairi from the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), who was vice-president of the Fez commune. The two were involved in cases related to
Two political parties, PJD and PPS, as well as Moroccan associations presented their condolences to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, following the assassination of the deputy head of its political bureau, Saleh Al-Arouri, during a raid carried out on Tuesday by an Israeli drone in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
A Royal Armed Forces drone killed four Polisario members on Wednesday, January 3, in the town of M’Hiriz, located in the buffer zone, a newspaper close to the Front reported. The airstrike also injured three other individuals, who were also preparing to carry out an operation against positions held by the Moroccan army, east of the sand wall. A MINURSO team has visited the scene of attack. The peacekeepers plan to write a report on the
A 40-year-old Moroccan who lived in Italy was expelled from the territory for planning a terrorist attack, Italian-language daily newspaper Il Giornale reported on Wednesday. The man in question has reportedly been radicalized while detained in prison. The Italian Interior Ministry announced in a statement that the Moroccan national «became radicalized while serving his sentence and he had expressed his intention to sacrifice himself to ‘punish infidels’», the same
The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, who is on a working visit to Algeria, met Wednesday evening in Algiers with his counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune. At the end of their meeting, the Algerian president welcomed the two countries’ common views on the Sahara issue. «Regarding the Western Sahara issue, Algeria and Sierra Leone will continue working together to find a just and lasting solution to this issue, in accordance with Security Council
A New Jersey imam was fatally shot, Wednesday, outside his mosque by an individual who is still at large, Associated Press reported. Imam Hassan Sharif was in his car, parked near Masjid-Muhammad Mosque in Newark, when a man with a gun shot him more than once. Authorities, who are still looking for the suspect, say that they have found no evidence as of yet that the shooting would have been motivated by an anti-Muslim bias. The shooting took place shortly before dawn at about 6 am, police
The latest issue of the Official Journal of Algeria, dated December 31, 2023, announces that loans granted to foreign governments were closed and entirely paid to the Algerian treasury. The list of countries concerned includes Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. These countries joined, during the Marrakech meeting on December 23, King Mohammed VI's international initiative to enable Atlantic Ocean access for Sahel States. A similar decision was made by the
A few days ago, the daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Salé held a funeral ceremony for her deceased cat. She received people who came to present their condolences, hosted a dinner, and hired people to recite prayers for her beloved pet, showed a video shared to social media. «Despite the pain and sadness, I was not able to forget my cat, and I decided to organize this charity dinner in her memory», said the woman in the same video. «Oh God, please accept
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