On Wednesday, King Mohammed VI received at the Royal Palace in Casablanca the four new members appointed to the Constitutional Court. They are Latifa El Khal and El Houssain Abouchi, appointed by the sovereign, Mohamed Alami, elected by the House of Representatives, as well as Khalid Berjaoui, who has been elected by the House of Councilors. During this hearing, the four new members were sworn in before the king, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the organic law of
After Yabiladi revealed that thousands of debt recovery cases were being handled in an extremely rapid way and without giving a chance to debtors to defend their cases, the main judges involved in these practices seem to have lowered the pace of their work. Will the new pace remain the same ?
An uproar has started among lawyers, bailiffs, judges and companies involved in the industrialization of justice and the privatization of the Casablanca court of First Instance, simply known now as #MahkamaGate.
The man behind North Africa’s first Holocaust Memorial said that he had received a letter from the authorities, ordering him to leave the country and to put an end to his NGO’s activities. Speaking to Yabiladi, Oliver Bienkowski said that he is planning to bring the case to court, resisting his expulsion.
Health authorities announced, Wednesday, Morocco’s sixth coronavirus case. The patient is a French-Senegalese woman who came from France on March 6 and landed in the city of Fes. After she showed respiratory symptoms, the 64-year-old woman, who suffers from chronical diseases, went for a check out on March 7. The woman tested positive for the virus and was admitted to a hospital by the sanitary authorities, the Ministry said in a press release. Earlier on Wednesday, two confirmed
Two Moroccan women in Italy were arrested, Tuesday, by the police while they were driving to another city to grab coffee. When approached by the police, they said that «they left Villa Verucchio (province of Rimini) to go to the beach and drink coffee», Rimini Today wrote. The two women, aged 39 and 43, were then arrested for breaking coronavirus quarantine. For the record, Italy, which is considered as the epicenter of the virus in Europe, has implemented emergency
Royal Air Maroc (RAM), Morocco’s national carrier, inaugurated, Wednesday, a new national route, linking Laayoune to Rabat with two weekly flights. The two flights will be operated every Monday and Wednesday, wrote MAP, quoting RAM. In addition to the new route, the airline company has reinforced its Laayoune-Marrakech line, adding a new flight for every Sunday. To RAM’s CEO Hamid Addou, strengthening air connections with the southern provinces will «undeniably» boost
Human rights activists have criticized the recent report issued by the National Council for Human Rights on Hirak protests and torture allegations. Moroccan NGOs believe that the report tried to «justify human rights violations».
The United Arab Emirates announced, Tuesday, that the Moroccan national who tested positive for coronavirus in the country has recovered, Khaleej Times reports. According to the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, this brings the number of patients who have recovered in the country to 17. The list includes a Moroccan national, an Egyptian one and three Emiratis. The UAE’s announcement comes after the country announced 15 new coronavirus cases, which brought the number of people
Morocco’s economic growth is expected to fall to 2% in 2020 because of drought and the spread of the novel coronavirus, Reuters wrote Tuesday. After it was forecasted that the country’s economic growth will stand at 3.5%, it was noticed that the agricultural and tourism sectors will be affected by the lack of rainfall and the outbreak, Morocco’s planning agency told the British press agency. «Growth this year will witness the steepest drop in 20
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