Former Moroccan Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi passed away on Friday at the age of 96. The lawyer, human rights activist and politician was born in Tangier. He served as Morocco’s Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002. The First Secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) Driss Lachgar announced the sad news on his Facebook account, Friday, extending his condolences to the family of the deseaced and to all Moroccans. He also recalled that Abderrahmane Youssoufi was a
Unemployed, Lamyaa Alloussi did not give up and embarked on a 100% male-dominated job. This Moroccan is the first woman working at a mobile car washing in the city of Mohammedia and is planning to expand her business.
Police in Belgium and France annouced, Wednesday, the arrests of 26 people suspected of taking part in a human trafficking network. The latter is allegedly involved in the death of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a truck container in Britain in 2019, Associated Press reported. Two Moroccans are among the 26 suspects arrested in both France and Belgium. The two Moroccans were arrested, Tuesday, in the Brussels area, the news agency added. «That organization is notably suspected, in a
The Plaza de Toros, a sports facility in Melilla, is expected to accommodate Moroccan women stranded in the city and previously housed by the Muslim cemetery. The action comes after one of these women was allegedly sexually assaulted. According to local online newspaper El Faro de Melilla, the Minister of Social Policies in Melilla Mohamed Mohand said that he had agreed to have Moroccan women stranded in the enclave moved to the facility. This measure will be taken as these women are afraid
The Polisario Front has slammed the Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister for publishing an Africa map that did not include the separatist movement’s flag.
A special repatriation flight for American citizens stranded in Morocco will leave Casablanca on June 12, the US embassy wrote Tuesday on its Twitter account. The plane, chartered to repatriate American citizens, will land on a Friday at 2:00 pm in Casablanca. It is expected to refuel and change crew at Ireland's Shannon Airport before landing at the Dulles International Airport in Washington. According to the US embassy, the flight is «available only to US citizens and to Lawful
Moroccans repatriated, last weekend, from Ceuta have all tested negative for the coronavirus, Ceuta TV reports. According to El Espanol and Cadena Ser correspondent Sonia Moreno, the two groups, 58 Moroccans who left Ceuta on Saturday and 37 others who were repatriated on Sunday, have all tested negative for the virus. The same thing goes for the 190 Moroccans repatriated on Friday. Desde #Rincón llegan buenas noticias. Los dos últimos grupos de 58 y 37 ciudadanos repatriados
35 new confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning in Morocco, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 7,636, the health Ministry announced. In a recent update, the Ministry reported that 166,574 suspected cases have tested negative for the virus so far. While deaths related to the coronavirus stand at 202, the number of Covid-19 patients who recovered in the Kingdom has reached 5,109. The confirmed coronavirus cases in
Stranded since March, several Moroccans have found themselves unable to afford their forced, long stays in Sub-Saharan African countries. Three of them have been exhaustedly awaiting a flight home.
At least 7,000 Moroccan seasonal workers hired to pick fruits in the Huelva region (southern Spain) will lose their jobs by June. These workers will be added to the 31,800 Moroccans stranded abroad since the closure of borders due to the coronavirus, EFE reports. Quoting sources involved in the recruitment of these seasonal workers, the Spanish news agency explains that 3,000 of these women will lose their jobs by the first week of June while the others will gradually find themselves