To secure the support of Podemos during his inauguration as head of government, scheduled for September 23, Pedro Sanchez seems ready to sacrifice his good relations with Morocco. The Spanish politician believes that MINURSO must monitor human rights in the Sahara.
The white supremacist behind the «Punish a Muslim Day» campaign was sentenced this week to 12 and a half years in prison. According to the British newspaper The Independent, David Parnham who had sent parcels to several mosques and political figures, is expected to serve his sentence in hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison. Quoting The Old Bailey, the newspaper recalls that the 36-year-old had sent several malicious letters, targeting mosques, the queen
Moroccan international footballer Hamza Mendyl, who plays for Schalke 04, has been loaned to Dijon Football Côte-d'Or (Dijon FCO). He will have to leave Germany to join the first French division until end of June 2020. According to German newspaper Westfälische Rundschau, the 21-year-old Moroccan-Ivorian player joined Schalke last summer. Since then, he made 16 appearances with the club. His contract with Schalke 04 will expire on June 30, 2023. A second Schalke player is also
The United States granted Morocco 100 light military vehicles, including M1078, M1083 and M1084 tactical trucks. According to several media reports, which quote a Facebook page called FAR-Maroc, these trucks are second-hand vehicles that will be sent in two convoys. Fifty of these trucks are on their way to the Kingdom while fifty others will be sent in the coming weeks to the Royal Armed Forces, the same source said. This grant is part of military between the Kingdom and the United
It is finally the end of an unfortunate chapter in the life of Timothy Hucks in Morocco. Monday morning, the New Yorker has had managed to leave the country and head back to the United States, after he got arrested and driven with a group of Sub-Saharan migrants to Beni Mellal in March. An acquaintance of the young man told Yabiladi, Tuesday, that Hucks «could take the ferry to Tarifa, in order to return to New York through Spain». The ordeal of an African-American who was
In Canada, lawyers are concerned about entry bans in the United States against Muslim Canadians. Recently, this measure targeted at least six citizens, two of whom spoke about the problem to CBC, as relayed by Radio-Canada. For example, the media reports that Imran Ally, a Guyana-native and imam in a Toronto mosque «and his wheelchair-bound, special-needs son were held at the Peace Bridge crossing near Fort Erie, Ont., for more than five hours». After the
Following a census of the population of the state of Assam (India) which has 33 million inhabitants, the Supreme Court released Saturday, the new list of citizens (National Register of Citizens). The judicial body learned through it that 1.9 million inhabitants, most of which are Muslims, are to be deprived of their citizenship, thus becoming stateless. Indeed, French newspaper Le Monde emphasizes that people not on the updated register would henceforth be considered «illegal
On Saturday, a shooting took place between the cities of Midland and Odessa in the west of Texas (USA). Local authorities mention several dead, seven being confirmed at the moment, in addition to around twenty wounded victims. As for one of the shooters, described as a white man in his thirties, he was shot after a shootout with the police in a movie theater parking lot, according to the American media CNN. The Belga news agency reports that police sources differ on the
Destroyed last Monday due to, according to the Ministry of the Interior, a lack of authorizations, the Holocaust Memorial erected by German NGO PixelHelper in Ait Faska (province of Marrakech) is again under the spotlight. Indeed, the association announced on Saturday that the lawyer Isaac Charia was working on the case, in order to «prevent the demolition» of what remains of the «works of art» erected on the site. The announcement was made on Facebook by
The president of the Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI), Kamal Daissaoui, who is also a researcher and a lecturer at the same institution, was made a Knight of the Order of Sciences and Innovation in London, during the International Grand Salon inventions, held on the 29 and 30 August. The researcher was awarded in recognition of «his actions in favor of scientific research and innovation». According to a statement from EMSI, this establishment has also won the Platinum
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