Moroccan rapper Zakaria Ennaji, better known by his stage name Lbenj, said that he would love to team up with Egyptian counterpart, actor and director Ahmed Mekki for a rap duet, Egypt Today reports. Speaking at the Ifrane International Music Festival in Morocco, the rapper said that he sees Mekki as an «idol» and that he is his «favorite Egyptian rapper». The Moroccan star told reporters that he hopes to perform with Mekki sometime soon.
The Western Sahara issue is again not part of the provisional program of work of the Security Council for the month of August, which was released on Friday. Presided by Poland for one month, the schedule made public by the UN body does not include meetings on the territorial issue. It is the fourth Security Council program work schedule that does not make mention of the Western Sahara issue after the adoption of resolution 2468. For the record, the MINURSO’s mandate will have to be
A ship from the maritime service of the Spanish Civil Guard in Ceuta found, early Friday afternoon, in the waters near the southern coast of Ceuta, the body of a man of Moroccan origin. According to news agency Europa Press, the body of the Moroccan seems to have spent «at least a week» at sea, given its «advanced state» of decomposition. According to sources from the local police command, the owner of a leisure boat sailing around the beach of El Desnarigado, about
An 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped in Etxebarría Park in Bilbao by six homeless individuals of Maghreb origin. According to El Espanol, the regional police arrested six men aged 18 to 36, «all Moroccans and Algerians». «They are accused of raping the girl, Thursday, August 1 at 11 pm», the newspaper said. The girl was walking alone when the six individuals, who were in a makeshift camp, allegedly approached her and forcibly took her to the camp before
The carabinieri of Rivergaro (Emilia-Romagna region) in Italy, announced yesterday the dismantling of three criminal networks involved in drug trafficking in the city and in the province. According to Italian media outlet Il Piacenza, pre-trial detention orders were issued by the investigating judge against several members of these networks, including Egyptians, Moroccans, Italians and Gambian refugees. The operation, called «Giardini», was launched following an eight-month long
Salvamento Marítimo, the public institution in charge of maritime security in Spanish waters, announced, Saturday, that it had saved 59 people of Maghrebi origin that morning, including 51 minors, seven women and one man, who were sailing in an inflatable boat along the coast of the Strait of Gibraltar. A spokesman for Salvamento Marítimo told Spanish news agency Europa Press that the ship was found around 9 am by a patrol from the Civil Guard, who informed them of the discovery
Jamila Aanzi is the first Moroccan-Dutch woman to address the United Nations General Assembly on the empowerment of women in the Netherlands. In 2017, the consultant was chosen to be the Dutch women’s representative at the UN.
American social media network Facebook has deleted several pages, groups and accounts engaged in «coordinated inauthentic behavior», targeting Morocco and other countries in the MENA region. In a communiqué made public Thursday, Facebook said that it «found two separate operations: one of which originated in United Arab Emirates and Egypt, and another in Saudi Arabia. The two campaigns we removed were unconnected, but both created networks of accounts to mislead others
Muhammad is officially the most popular name given to boys in Israel in 2018, according to figures released by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics earlier this week. According to the list shared by Times of Israel, data show that 2,646 boys were named after Prophet Muhammad in 2018, while 1,447 have the name of David when it comes to Jews. The second most popular name for Jewish boys is Ariel (1,323), followed by Noam. As for girls, Miriam tops the list of the most popular
Put in place on August 1st, the new burqa ban is seen as a «discriminatory» law by Dutch-Moroccans living in the Netherlands. Passed in 2018, the law was dubbed «Islamophobic» and provocative to the Muslim community in the country.
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