The United Nations Human Rights Committee has announced that Morocco is one of the five countries that topped its Human Rights Committee's ranking for the implementation of selected recommendations. In a statement published earlier this month, the UN body stressed that «Argentina, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Morocco and Sweden received 'A's in the Committee's follow-up review of their action on priority recommendations». "Morocco was rated 'A' for the adoption of the law on the
The United States House of Representatives has approved a proposition on funds allocated to Morocco, including the Sahara in the document released Monday.
Morocco is the biggest MENA region customer for American arms in 2019, according to data compiled by the Forum on the Arms Trade from the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program and relayed by Forbes. In fact, Rabat has concluded deals «worth some $10.3 billion, almost all of it going on the Royal Moroccan Air Force» in 2019, the American magazine said. The same source explains that in March 2019, the US «State Department announced a deal to sell $3.8 billion worth of F-16
Two Moroccan women, aged 32 and 38, were arrested on the charges of sexual exploitation of a minor in Barcelona. According to Spanish newspaper El Nacional, the women took the minor in question from a nightlife spot in Barcelona in February. The minor had left for Barcelona to spend a few days with friends. During an evening, she would have met the two Moroccan women who would have offered her a job. According to the same source, the minor had reportedly accepted their offer and after a few
Discovered in 2018 by Morocco’s Oukaimeden Observatory, an exoplanet and its star were named by Moroccans after two legendary Amazigh lovers. Isli and Tislit were named through a contest initiated by the International Astronomical Union and conducted by Moroccan scholars.
The European Union has granted €1.3 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to «treat and prevent malnutrition among Sahrawi refugee children and women in five camps located around Tindouf in Algeria», WFP said in a communiqué released Tuesday. In its statement, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations recalled that its latest «nutrition survey found that global acute malnutrition rates among Sahrawi refugee children under five
A Chinese fisheries firm has sent eight of its new trawlers to Morocco for octopus and other species, wrote Seafood Source Tuesday, quoting the state-owned firm. China Aquatic Products Zhoushan Marine Fisheries Corp, also known as ZhouYu, sent its new vessels to the North African Kingdom on December 9. Fishing in the Moroccan waters comes as it has been harder for the Chinese firm to find Octopus. According to the same source, both Mauritania and Morocco «have given additional access
If in 2019 Morocco achieved a breakthrough in El Salvador, the year 2020 may bring about more «SADR» recognition withdrawals from countries of the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) and Latin America.
A Moroccan suspected terrorist fighter was deported to the Kingdom by the Turkish authorities, the Turkish Interior Ministry said Monday in a statement relayed by Anadolu press agency. The Moroccan national was sent back to the Kingdom as part of «Turkey’s ramped-up efforts to repatriate foreign terrorist fighters», the ministry said in a statement. Turkey is deporting other foreign terrorist fighters as well as ISIS members and their families detained in Syria, the same
This 43-year-old French-Moroccan woman fights against police violence, especially in the suburbs. In 2012, her younger brother Amine was shot to death by a police officer.
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