In 1601, sultan Ahmad Al-Mansur couldn’t hide his obsession with America. The Saadi ruler wanted to conquer the New World and make Moroccans populate the land with the help of Queen Elizabeth I.
An independent advisor was appointed Tuesday, July 23, to give expert advice on the definition of Islamophobia in the UK, the British government said a press release. Imam Qari Asim, Deputy Chair of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group, will lead the process of establishing a definition of Islamophobia. He will be joined by a second advisor that has not been selected yet. Accoridng to the government, the new definition will take into consideration the already existing ones on
During a meeting held Tuesday, the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said that Nigeria and Morocco have agreed to deliver the gas pipeline bilateral agreement in record time, Nigerian newspaper Sun news online reports. While receiving the Moroccan ambassador to Nigeria Moha Ou Ali Tagma, Mallam Mele K. Kyari said Morocco and Nigeria are «completely aligned with the MoU signed by our two governments. We will take it forward and ensure that those terms
The Malaga Moroccan Association has launched a mobile app to fight against Islamophobia and hate crimes, Spanish press agency Europa Press reports. The app is part of a national program set to counter Islamophobia. In addition to this project, Malaga will host in September its first national congress against Islamophobia. The app, called «Islamofobia», is free and available on Google Play. It is presented as the first Spanish digital tool to address the phenomenon, as explained by
Rabbi Shlomo Aben Danan is one of the most famous Dayans the city of Fez has ever had. The Jewish saint lays in the city’s most renowned synagogue.
Since Saturday, the Polisario Front has been mobilized to denounce the death of a young Sahrawi woman, who lost her life in a car accident in Laayoune. Letters have even been sent to the United Nations and the European Union to attack Morocco.
The trial of the Moroccan truck driver suspected of killing Sophia, a 28-year-old student he drove in the summer of 2018, to open this week in Bayreuth. The family of the victim wants to know the whole story behind the death of their daughter, after her dead body was discovered in Spain. The trial will include twelve hearings, during which 17 witnesses will be heard, according to Idowa. In the meantime, the defendant has addmitted that he committed the murder. For the record, the
A 44-year-old Moroccan man, wanted by the Moroccan authorities and Interpol since 2005 for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking, was arrested in Tarifa by the Spanish police, while he was trying to board a ferry for Tangier, ABC reports. Police officers found that the man is wanted under an arrest warrant issued by Interpol and an international arrest warrant issued by the Moroccan authorities. The suspect tried in 2015 to smuggle a large quantity of narcotics into Spain from Morocco
The Polisario’s representative in Algeria, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, has received a delegation from the Democratic Social Movement (MDS) led by its national coordinator Fethi GHares, SPS reported. The meeting was mainly held to discuss the program of the 10th edition of the summer university of the executives of the Polisario Front, to be hosted by the Boumerdes University from the 27th to the 8th of August. The event, fully funded by the Algerian state, brings hundreds of people together
Michigan pageant winner Kathy Zhu has been stripped of her title by the Miss World America organization for tweets she made about Muslims and black people, American press agency Associated Press (AP) reports. Zhu was crowned the pageant's Michigan last week. But she was described by AP as «a University of Michigan conservative who's active with a group called Chinese Americans for Trump». «It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America (MWA) that your social