In 1992, undercover police officer José Manuel Caamaño met Pablo Escobar in a Casablanca mansion. The Spanish agent made the Colombian drug lord drop the idea of operating in Morocco.
The trial of the 24 suspects involved in the murder of two Scandinavian tourists in the Atlas Mountains will have its final hearing, Thursday, in Salé. The judges will be pronouncing their final say against the three main suspects, accused of slaughtering the two women in their camping tent near the Toubkal Mountain, and the 21 others. The suspects, including a Swiss-Spanish national, are standing trial over the charges of «setting up a gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts,
After the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) denied his resignation, rumors linked to Hervé Renard’s future with the Atlas Lions have not stopped. According to French newspaper France Football, Renard could be replaced by Vahid Halilhodzic, a 67-year-old Bosnian football coach who is the current manager of Ligue 1 club Nantes. «The Bosnian manager, who is not in good terms with his leaders and who will have his contract with Nantes expire on June 30, told people
The United States has put Morocco’s Ali Maychou on a special list of terrorists, the U.S. Department of States said in a statement released Tuesday. The Moroccan national is suspected of holding a leadership role in Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM). The latter is a West-African terrorist group designated as both a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in September 2018», the same communiqué
The British Museum in London will be home to an exhibition on the Islamic World’s impact on Western art. The exhibition will mainly focus on Western artists and painters who were inspired by the Islamic world, the Guardian reports. These works of art will include paintings of French Orientalist Eugène Delacroix, who went in a diplomatic mission to Morocco and produced several paintings while in the country. «Orientalism was one of the defining elements of the 19th and 20th
Launched on social media after the Algerian football team managed to reach the Africa Cup of Nations’ finale, a march will be organized Saturday to call for the reopening of land border between Algeria and Morocco.
The Audiencia Nacional, a centralized court in Spain with jurisdiction over all of the Spanish territory, has authorized the expulsion of Moroccan nationals seen as a danger on national security based on confidential reports provided by the Spanish official intelligence agency (CNI). The decision was taken after Moroccan Imam Yassine Lafraiki filed an appeal against his expulsion, El Pais reported on Tuesday. The Spanish authorities used a report by said agency to justify the expulsion of
The Polisario is ready to play all cards to benefit from the current regional and international circumstances. One of these cards is the fight against drugs smuggled from Morocco. The Front has even sought the help of the UN Security Council.
In Melilla, the stability of the local government depends heavily on the import of Moroccan sheep. The leader of Coalition for Melilla (CpM), a Spanish political party in Melilla, said that he will break his alliance with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) if the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture bans the import of Moroccan sheep ahead of Eid al-Adha. Mustapha Aberchan said, Tuesday, that he will reconsider his pact with PSOE if the central government prevents the
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Morocco in a consultation report to ensure the transition to greater exchange rate flexibility. The report, made public Tuesday, stressed that the Kingdom must «use the current window of opportunity to continue this reform», which will «help the economy absorb potential external shocks and remain competitive». IMF’s report hailed Morocco’s macroeconomic policies and commended the reforms implemented to
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