In a letter signed by 27 senators, James Inhofe and Patrick Leahy urged President Joe Biden to reverse the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The two senators are the Polisario’s biggest allies within the American senate.
Morocco’s ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Samir Addahre, received on Wednesday the certificate of registration of the couscous, which was inscribed in December on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Tunisia submitted the application. Following the official ceremony broadcast on the UNESCO website on the sidelines of the 15th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for
Tarfaya, a coastal Moroccan town, was hit on Wednesday by a magnitude 4.9 earthquake, Volcano Discovery reported. The epicenter of the quake is located 16 km from Tarfaya. The earthquake was felt 400 km from the epicenter, namely in the city of Agadir, according to reports sent to the same source. Reports described the quake as a «single vertical bump». The same source indicates that no casualties and property damages were reported as of now.
508 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 479,579. 2,081,013 people have received the vaccine against Covid-19. 838 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 461,466. 13 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 8,517. 6 of these deaths were recorded in Casablanca-Settat, 2 in
A number of Moroccan travelers and carriers have been stranded in French and Italian ports due to border closure. They sleep in their trucks and cars with little resources.
Authenticity and Modernity Party MPs at the House of Representatives asked, Tuesday, in a written question, the Minister Delegate in charge of Moroccans living abroad, to protect Moroccan immigrants living in the streets abroad. MP Latifa El Hamoud recalled that many Moroccans live in a situation of vulnerability and poverty abroad, particularly in Italy and Spain. According to her their conditions have worsened due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus. In her question, the parliamentarian
Offending or insulting foreign heads of state is condemned in both Morocco and Algeria. However, in Algeria, Echourouk TV channel, which caricatured King Mohammed VI, seems to enjoy impunity.
A Moroccan diplomat accredited in Algeria withdrew from a conference devoted to the Arab Maghreb union. The meeting was organized Tuesday by the Algerian newspaper Echaab and was marked by the presence of the secretary general of the Arab Maghreb Union Parliament, Algeria’s Said Mokadem. The Moroccan diplomat left the conference to protest against a question asked by a journalist on Morocco’s resumption of diplomatic ties with Israel, Algerian media wrote. The diplomat considered
The first instance court in the city of Oujda sentenced, Tuesday, a man accused of raping several children to four years in prison. The accused, who is in his fifties and works as a bicycle repairer, has been prosecuted for more than a year for «harrassing a minor and rape of children». The court ruled that the man gives 10,000 dirhams to each of the victims, in addition to a symbolic dirham to the National Child Rights Observatory. He is also expected to cover court
Four young people arrested following the sit-in that was organized on February 5 in Fnideq have received a six-month suspended sentence. The four young people are Yassine Razine (member of Al Adl wal Ihsane), Reda Al-Aafiqi, Noureddine Al-Hichu and Mohamed Makdar. On February 5, the inhabitants of the small town in northern Morocco hit the streets in an «unauthorized» sit-in at Boulevard Mohammed V. They protested against the closure of the borders with Ceuta, which deprived
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