A second direct commercial flight from Morocco to Israel took off Monday from the Tel Aviv airport to land in Casablanca, after more than 6 hours. On the same day, the El Al flight, a Boeing 737-8Z9, left the economic capital of the Kingdom for Israel. According to journalist Seddik Khalfi, the plane «only stayed a little over an hour on the tarmac at the Casablanca airport». Thus, arriving at 5:22 p.m., it left at around 7:10 p.m., according to Flightradar24. The
After having repeatedly criticized the Sanchez government for its pro-Morocco positions, the Polisario front defends Spain amid hospitalization of Brahim Ghali. This mission is entrusted to Oubi Bouchraya El Bachir, member of the General Secretariat of the Front, in charge of Europe and the European Union, and his representative in Madrid, Abddellah El Arabi. The two have defended the stay of their leader in a public hospital in Logrono. Oubi Bouchraya estimated that Spain received
Khadijatou Mahdmoud, one of the plaintiffs who accuses the secretary general of the Polisario Front Brahim Ghali of rape, took advantage of his hospitalization in Spain to reiterate her call for justice to be done. In a new video, she asked the Spanish justice to intervene to punish her rapist. She recalls having left Spain for the Tindouf camps in Algeria in 2005 and remained there until 2010, working as a translator for non-governmental organizations. However, while she was
United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met on Tuesday, April 27, in Washington with his Israeli counterpart Meir Ben-Shabbat. This meeting was meant to «continue the close bilateral consultations between the two governments on a range of regional issues», read a White House press release. The two men «discussed their serious concerns about advancements in Iran’s nuclear program in recent years». During the same meeting, Sullivan underscored
507 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 509,972. 4,808,303 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,233,682 people have received the second. 623 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 496,031. 6 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related
The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, reacted to our article titled «When Morocco sacrificed its relationship with Catalonia to please Spain». On his Twitter account, he wrote : «dear Moroccan friends. Know that Spain never keeps its promises. You should never pay upfront». Four years after the sacrifices made by Morocco to Spain over Catalonia, the Sanchez government welcomed Brahim Ghali on the sly without notifying Rabat. Chers amis
The Moroccan authorities thwarted an attempt by 20 people to swim to Ceuta on Monday morning. However, five young people managed to bypass the breakwaters in the border area of Ceuta, while the others were arrested by the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie. Police sources told EFE that the attempt happened at 9 a.m., when a large group of people gathered near the coast of Fnideq. Young people wore wetsuits, diving fins and in some cases only swimsuits to jump into the sea. The intervention
Four years after Morocco’s support to Spain over Catalonia, the Sanchez government welcomed Brahim Ghali on the sly without notifying Rabat.
The reaction of Morocco to the hospitalization of Polisario leader Brahim Ghali in Spain was not well received by the Polisario. On Sunday, the movement’s «Ministry of Foreign Affairs» published a press release in which it accuses Morocco of «celebrating» the hospitalization of Brahim Ghali and «taking advantage» of it to «offend the Saharawi people and their national symbols, even during purely humanitarian matters». In its press
The Algerian Minister of Communication Ammar Belhimer, also spokesperson for the government, is blaming the failure of the Maghreb Arab Union project on Morocco. «Morocco's stubbornness to condition the building of the Arab Maghreb Union on Algeria’s support for decolonization in Western Sahara is what led to this impasse», he claimed. For the record, King Mohammed VI invited, in his speech of November 6, 2018, the Algerian authorities to create a «joint mechanism for