A Spanish court refused to reexamine one of the complaints filed by ten Moroccan women who used to work in Huelva. These seasonal workers were disappointed by the decision of the court, which refused their appeal.
They come from a migrant detention facility for minors in Melilla to audition for the fifth season of Spain’s Got Talent with a heavy heart. Born in Morocco and abandoned in Spain, fourteen unaccompanied minor migrants won the heart of the jury that listened to their story and watched their emotional performance. In a video shared Monday, these Moroccan minors told their ordeal through a dance. «We came from Melilla (…) these are minors who live in a detention center
On Thursday, September 19, MINURSO leader Colin Stewart visited Tindouf. In the camps, the Canadian UN peacekeeper held talks with the Polisario’s «Red Crescent» president Bouhnini Yahya, who asked UN officials to provide more international help. Stewart also visited a number of food depots. This trip is the first of its kind, especially as the Polisario had insisted in the past on meeting the MINURSO leader in Bir Lahlou. This demand is meant to make the United Nations
Wheat prices in Euronext, a European stock exchange, were on the rise, Thursday, after Morocco announced that the start of its import season will be next month. The announcement increased export sentiment in France, Reuters reports. «The price strength looks like it’s partly about Morocco», one futures broker told Reuters. «Argentine wheat is still a bit more expensive so that could leave France with more room in North and West Africa», he added. Morocco
Chinese-owned aviation services company Swissport International has been granted a seven-year license to handle the services of 15 Moroccan airports, Aviation Port reports. The license awarded to Swissport International includes airports in Agadir, Al Hoceima, Casablanca, Dakhla, Errachdia, Essaouira, Fes, Laayoune, Marrakech, Nador, Ouarzazate, Oujda, Rabat, Tangier and Tetouan. «Since 2012, our service agents and ramp personnel have all been working with great dedication to
Linguists believe that Darija is a lingua franca that helps Moroccans, with different cultural backgrounds, understand each other. The origins of this dialect, however, are influenced by Tamazight, Classical Arabic, and other sub-dialects that were once spoken in the Kingdom.
A German court sentenced, Wednesday, a 42-year-old Moroccan to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting and murdering a German student, PNP reports. The 28-year-old student Sophia Losche was planning to spend holidays with her family when she decided to hitchhike. She was picked up by the Moroccan truck driver, who tried to assault her in a rest area. He got very furious when she slapped him and he hit her back with a hook wrench four time. The accused said that he did not want to kill her
Just like Romeo and Juliet, Ahmed Hantout and Erna Else Hildegard Seidel fought for their love until the end, leaving Nazi Germany to settle down in Tangier and then Tetouan. Yabiladi traced back this love story, born in Berlin in the 30's, at a time when mixed marriages were forbidden.
During a family trip to Morocco, 18-year-old Abdelhamid Al-Madioum decided to join ISIS. The Minnesota-native took a solo flight to Istanbul and made it to Iraq. He is currently serving a prison sentence in Syria for being part of the terrorist organization. Speaking to CBS reporter Holly Williams, the 22-year-old American citizen said : «My name is Abdel. I come from Minnesota (…) I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis, St. Louis Park, Eden Prairie». From his prison cell,
On Wednesday, September 18, and during a hearing at the Sale Appeal Court, the three main suspects, accused of murdering two Scandinavian tourists near Imlil, refused to apologize to the families of the victims. Abdelfattah El Joud, the leader of the terrorist cell behind the murder, was the first one to admit that he committed the crime responding to the question of Khalid Fetaoui, the lawyer of the Danish family. The accused Rachid Afati and Younès Ouziad, also sentenced to death,