After securing her place for this year’s Paralympic Games taekwondo tournament in Tokyo, Moroccan fighter Rajae Akermach said that it is a «dream» coming true. Akermach won the women’s K44 over-58 kilograms title at the African qualification tournament on February 24 in Rabat, qualifying for the Tokyo 2020. Speaking to Olympic news website Inside the Games, Akermach said that «since 2015 [she has] been working for this dream». «Really, I don’t
After a diplomatic truce that lasted for a year, Morocco seems to have reviewed its policy towards Algeria.
Moroccan officials returning from overseas have reportedly underwent coronavirus tests, Arabic-language daily Akhbar Alyaoum reported on Tuesday. Quoting a source from the joint commission for epidemiological surveillance, the newspaper reported that these tests were carried out to «rule out cases of COVID-19». «I cannot reveal the names of Moroccan officials who underwent the tests, but I can assure you that the information is true. When it comes to the virus, there is no
After the Moroccan sanitary authorities announced the first confirmed coronavirus case, the Health Ministry said, Tuesday, in a press conference that the health of the patient’s family members is being monitored.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Habib El Malki received, Monday in Rabat, Nkosiakhe Amos Masondo, the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (Upper House) of South Africa. This is the first high-level meeting that brings the two representatives together since the election of Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa. During this meeting, Habib El Malki recalled Morocco’s support for ANC and Nelson Mandela during his fight against the apartheid regime. The
The Supreme Court of Cassation has quashed a sentence handed by an Appeal Court against Moroccan national Mehdi Hamil. The latter was accused of terrorism, according to Gazetta Del Sud. Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation ruled that links between the man in question and the terrorism organization (ISIS) have not been identified. Residing in Luzzi since 2006, Mehdi Hamil was indeed sentenced for self-training for terrorist purposes, in January 2016. At the time, local police had declared
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou expressed, Sunday in Montevideo, his intention to develop relations of cooperation with Morocco, during his inauguration ceremony. The Polisario Front has, for its part, missed the event in Montevideo, while the country recognizes the so-called «SADR» since December 2005.
Police at the Agadir Massira Airport arrested, Saturday, a British national who was trying to smuggle 17,000 medical masks to England. According Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar, the English tourist of Indian origin had purchased masks from several pharmacies in Agadir, before packing them in suitcases and transporting them to the airport. He planned to transport them to England, a country where 36 people had tested positive for the coronavirus. Scanners at the airport checkpoint detected
According to the latest report of the International Narcotics Control Board, Morocco recorded in 2018 the largest seizures of cannabis and cannabis resin in the region.
Spanish NGO Espacio Antirracista de Girona denounced, on Sunday, the racist comments of a security agent in Girona against a group of Moroccan immigrants. According to EFE, the NGO published a video on Twitter in which it pointed at how this security agent asked the young people to show them their train tickets. When they wondered why, he insisted saying : «If you want respect, you go to your country». The man in question told the young Moroccans that they were probably
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