A court in Tetouan sentenced, Monday, a young man to two years in prison and fined him 5 000 dirhams for publishing a video on social media in which he insulted the king, government officials and doctors at the Saniat El Rmal hospital. The young man was found guilty of «insulting the emblem and symbols of the kingdom, officials and of disrupting public order», Arabic-language newspaper Al3omk reported. He was arrested on December 20, 2019, after he
Born in Morocco, former Israeli politician and ambassador to France and the United Nations, Yehuda Lancry addressed ties between Israelis of Moroccan Jewish descent and their country of origin. To him, normalization with Morocco depends on the Palestinian question.
The Beckham family is having a fresh start for the new year in Morocco. After hosting a lavish Christmas party back home, David Beckham his wife and their three youngest children flew to the Kingdom to enjoy the sun. On their social media accounts, the couple have been documenting their trip, posting photos of their children enjoying their 2020 first vacation, wrote the Sun. In one of her stories, Victoria Beckham made fun of her hotel’s Christmas decoration with a caption saying
Moroccan-French footballer Soufiane El Moudane has joined Ittihad Riadi Tanger known as Ittihad Tanger (IRT), the Tangier-based club announced in a Facebook post. IRT said that it signed a two-and-a-half year contract with the 25-year-old player who used to play for a Slovak sports club in the town of Trenčín. According to Transfer Market, El Moudane started playing for Ittihad Tanger on January 1, 2020 as a midfielder. El Moudane was born in Saint-Etienne in
The Gambia will open, Tuesday, a consulate in Dakhla. According to diplomatic sources, several Gambian and Moroccan officials will attend the inauguration of the new consulate, announced in December 2019. Last month, the Union of the Comoros inaugurated a consulate general in Laayoune, following in the footsteps of Cote d'Ivoire. In June 2019, the West African country opened an honorary consulate in Laayoune to cover the regions of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab. «At
While Morocco has not commented officially yet on the current Iranian crisis, Moroccan Shiites broke their silence, denouncing the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
At least 197 migrants arrived to the Spanish provinces of Murcia, Cadiz Canary Island and Alicante carried by seven boats during the first weekend of 2020. According to Europa Press, the first group of migrants was rescued, Saturday, near Cadiz. At least 18 people, including a child and a woman, of North African origins, were rescued. During the same day, Salvamento Maritimo intercepted a boat carrying 16 men who were all of Algerian descent off the Santa Pola beach in Alicante. One of the
An Italian national called Eva Valerio was found dead on a beach in Dakhla, a city in southern Morocco. The deceased was holidaying with a friend in a camper. According to Italian news agency ANSA, her friend alerted about her disappearance after he realized that she had been missing for two days. The 30-year-old woman from Thiene, a city in the province of Vicenza, in northern Italy, was found dead at the Boutalha beach Quoting the mayor of Thiene Giovanni Casarotto, the Italian press
A social media post reported that Dutch MEP Kati Piri is visiting Al Hoceima this week to meet Moroccan politicians and human rights defenders. Some of them told Yabiladi that a Dutch delegation will indeed fly to the city but without Piri who also denied the news.
Members of the Newport Islamic Society (NIS) have traveled to a fire-ravaged town in Australia to support exhausted firefighters amid devastating blazes, wrote the Daily Mail Australia. Over the weekend, members of the Muslim NGO cooked meals for firefighters at the Johnsonville Volunteer Fire Brigade. «It was very emotional to see how tired and drained they were. They were just exhausted», a volunteer told the same source. In addition to cooking, the group brought five truckloads