The owners of a second-hand clothing business in Spain were arrested for exploiting Moroccan irregular migrants and forcing them to work long hours in poor conditions.
Abu Dhabi-based developer Imkan has been awarded a contract to build the first open-air shopping mall in Morocco. The AED134 million contract (around MAD 326.6 million) was struck with Bymaro, a subsidiary of Bouygues Batiment International and a feature of Imkan’s Rabat-based flagship, Arabian Business reported. The 33,000 sq m mall will be located in downtown Rabat and will be home to international franchises, a multiplex cinema F&B outlets and a food court. The mall will be
Days after the United States announced that it has recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, the Polisario’s allies rushed into denouncing the decision. After Algeria, South Africa said that US President Donald Trump’s decision «has no force and effect». Speaking on Monday, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor argued that the American decision «was totally surprising». «It is essentially the
The US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is at the heart of political debate in Spain. Opposition parties and government officials in the country commented on the Trump administration's decision. On Monday, the Spanish Foreign Minister reaffirmed her country's position on the territorial dispute. The solution to this problem «does not depend on the will or the unilateral action of a country, regardless of its size». On this issue, «the
1,217 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 400,826. 3,042 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 359,065. 35 deaths were recorded between yesterday and today, bringing the total number of deaths to 6,659. 12 of these deaths were recorded in the Casablanca-Settat region, 9 in Marrakech-Safi, 7 in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, 2 in
We often talk about Sahrawis in the Tindouf camps who chose to leave for Morocco. But what about those who have chosen the opposite path, out of romanticism, spite or anger? Yabiladi met one of them, Mohamed Salem Abdelfattah, who joined the Polisario for eleven years in 2004, before returning to Laayoune in 2015.
«Morocco has an important history with its Jewish community, unique to the Arab world», Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Saturday. «King Mohammed VI is the religious head of state, and even his predecessors, including his father Hassan II, respected and protected the Jewish community. Morocco's relationship with the Jewish people is a special one, unheard of in any other Arab nation», Bourita
American diplomat Christopher Ross, who served before as the UN envoy to Western Sahara, commented on Monday on the United States' recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara. Speaking to Radio Algerie, the former UN envoy estimated that «the sovereignty of Western Sahara does not belong to US President Donald Trump or to Morocco». He thus qualified this recognition as «a dangerous decision which would negatively affect the stability of the region and the
Moroccan Salafist Mohamed Fizazi has put a little water in the wine. Uncompromising with the normalization of certain Gulf countries with Israel, he showed himself to be more understanding when it came to that announced by Morocco.
The Russian Foreign Ministry estimated on Saturday that the American position on the Sahara issue could «provoke further violence in the region». According to Russian News Agency TASS, Russia believes that «the United States’ recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara may hamper the United Nations’ efforts to resolve the conflict». Moscow speaks of «a new unilateral initiative which threatens stability in the
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