On the sidelines of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla met with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita. Cuban media spoke about this meeting but without giving much importance to it when compared to other talks the diplomat held in New York with other officials. At the United Nations assembly, the Cuban Foreign Minister reiterated his country’s «unconditional solidarity» with the «Sahrawi
Jailed over abortion charges, Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced to one year in prison and fined alongside her fiancé. International and local activists see the case as a crackdown on journalists and individual freedoms.
On Monday, Civil Guard agents intercepted at sea six Moroccan migrants carried in a boat that was heading to Cadiz, Spain. According to local online newspaper El Faro de Ceuta, the migrants were sailing off Ceuta when they were intercepted. After they were arrested, the migrants and boat driver were taken to a naval base. Once there, the Red Cross assisted them before receiving dry clothes. Taken to a police station, the migrants will be repatriated to Morocco in accordance
Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni, accused of undergoing an abortion and of having sex outside marriage, was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 500 dirhams, Monday, by a first instance court in Rabat, her lawyer Mohamed Sadko told Yabiladi. Her fiancé, a Sudanese national, received as well a one-year prison sentence and was fined 500 dirhams, while her gynecologist was sentenced to two years in prison and was suspended for tow years. Raissouni’s lawyer told Yabiladi
Is Morocco seeking closer relations with three Gulf Cooperation Council states after two years of tension? After Rabat condemned «Iranian threats», the three capitals responded with similar initiatives.
On Thursday, Raja Casablanca will play against Palestinian football team Hilal Al-Quds in Faisal Al-Husseini, a stadium in the city of Al Quds. While many see the trip Raja fans will make to Jerusalem as a way of normalizing with the Israeli entity, the Palestinian team told Yabiladi that Moroccan football lovers would not get their passports stamped by the Zionist authorities.
Moroccan astronomical observatory, Oukaimden, has been part of a groundbreaking discovery, related to a comet from another star system. According to recent data, the observatory announced the detection of gas molecules in the unusual object.
The Audiencia Nacional, Spain’s national court, will have to pronounce its verdict, Tuesday, against three Moroccan brothers accused of financing terrorist organization «Islamic State» through their brother based in Turkey, EFE reports. The three brothers will face a prison sentence and a fine. They will also have to attend a rehabilitation and social reintegration program, provided by Spanish Interior Ministry and dedicated to those convicted in terrorism-related
Morocco’s head of the government Saadeddine El Othmani reacted, Sunday, to the «peace breakfast», attended by a Moroccan representative, Donald Trump’s senior advisor Jared Kushner and the vice-president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies. In a meeting held in Agadir, El Othmani stressed that «Morocco refuses this process», as reported by the party’s website. According to him, this position was «officially voiced, through messages
On the sidelines of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum met, Thursday, with the head of UN peacekeeping operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix. The situation in Western Sahara and MINURSO have been at the heart of this meeting. Boukadoum had similar meetings, in New York, with his French and Russian counterparts Jean-Yves Le Drian and Sergei Lavrov of Russia, respectively, and the United States under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David
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