Two fishermen were killed while at least nine others are still missing after a boat sunk near the Tan Tan coast in southern Morocco, Reuters reports, quoting the fisheries department on Friday. The authorities are still searching for the missing people while the two bodies were found by two fishing boats, the same source said. For the record, the sinking boat left the port of Tan Tan on Thursday.
In Vitoria, members of the Polisario Front settled down in the capital of the Basque Country have tried to prevent pro-Morocco Sahrawis from holding conferences. On Wednesday November 20, they stormed a conference led by Dahi Aggay, president of the «the Association of missing persons at the hands of the Polisario» and a Sahrawi who spent several years in the Front's prisons in the Tindouf camps before joining the kingdom. Young people, presented as acting on
After it recorded a substantial improvement last year, gaining nine places, Morocco is ranked among the MENA countries that deteriorated in the 2019 edition of the Global Terrorism Index, a report conducted by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
The members of the Foreign Affairs Committee from the two Houses of the parliament will be visiting the Moroccan sand wall in the Sahara. According to Arabic-language newspaper Al Massae, planning and preparations for the visit are underway. Quoting the head of the parliamentarian committee Youssef Gharbi, the newspaper indicates that the trip «is meant to support members of the Moroccan army who are deployed in the Sahara». Meanwhile, Minister-Delegate for National Defense
Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet has won the Veu Lliure Prize (Free Voice Prize) by PEN Catalonia, which awards authors who have suffered imprisonment or persecution because of their writing, Periodistas-es reports. The journalist was awarded during a ceremony that took place in Can Alcover in Spain. Ali Lmrabet received this award for «his fight for freedom of expression in Morocco, particularly in the field of journalism», the same source wrote. The journalist «dedicated the
Much to the discontent of its other «allies», Morocco continues to favor the American market to equip its army. On Wednesday, the US State Department approved a military sale to Morocco of 36 Apache attack helicopters for an estimated cost of $4.25 billion.
Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly married his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez in Morocco during a secret ceremony reportedly hosted by Dutch-Moroccan kickboxer Badr Hari and attended by several journalists, Italian gossip magazine Novella 2000 claimed in a recent report. Quoted by Spanish news agency EFE, the magazine reported that rumors about Ronaldo’s secret marriage has emerged in August, when his girlfriend posted on her Instagram account a photo in which she
Police in Italy arrested two Camorra Mafia members linked to drug suppliers of Maghreb origin, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports. The two individuals are suspected of having links with these drug suppliers who, reportedly sell and distribute drugs imported from Morocco through Spain in Italy. Between 2001 and 2012, they set up a transnational network that imported hashish. Investigators identified four other suspects who are on the run. Two of them were featured in a list issued by the
Discussions about Islam and Muslims were part of the United States’ history since the the country’s founding. America’s Founding Fathers were the first to accept the religion and declare that they «have no enmity against it».
A solidarity sit-in in support of the Palestinian people in Tetouan was canceled, Tuesday. Organized by a local students’ organization called «Attajdid Attolabi», affiliated to the Unity and Reform Movement (MUR) was prevented by the local authorities. According to the group’s secretary-general Mohamed Rebbah, «authorities have prevented [protesters] from gathering», adding that «a member of the group was brutally beaten and insulted while another
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