Princess Lalla Salma and her son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, have reportedly arrived to Skiathos, a Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea, for holidays, Greek newspaper Greek Reporter wrote on Sunday. According to the same source, they arrived at Skiathos airport on Saturday, July 6, and headed to luxury hotel Koukounaries. The newspaper recalls that this is not the first time that the princess and her son visit Greece. In 2012, Lalla Salma visited Ilia in Western Greece. One year earlier,
Relations between Mauritania and the Polisario Front are going through a crisis. According to Anbaa Info, which quotes «sources close to the Mauritanian palace», Polisario’s leader Brahim Ghali has been removed from the list of personalities invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of Mauritania’s newly elected president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. The newspaper said that in Niamey, where he attended an African Union meeting, Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh did not
Seven Moroccan nationals were killed, eight injured and three others are missing in a deadly raid that hit a migrant center in Tajoura, near Tripoli, the Moroccan consulate in Tunis said on Saturday. The Libyan authorities in Tripoli and the Libyan diplomatic mission in Rabat confirmed in a statement, quoted by MAP, that these nationals are among the 18 Moroccans that were staying at a Libyan detention center that was targeted by a raid on Thursday. The same source reported that
After graduating highschool, Aabir Rhardane moved to France to complete her studies. Despite the difficulties she faced, she succeeded in establishing a path of success in Luxemburg and began her career in one of the oldest banking institutions in the world.
Atlas Lions’ coach Hervé Renard said that he is fully responsible for Morocco’s shock exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), Reuters reported. «I'm responsible for this defeat. I salute Benin for winning. They played according to a specific strategy and it worked while we didn't find solutions», Renard said after Benin won 4-1 on post-match penalties following a 1-1 draw. «We knew it was going to be a tough match because Benin managed to beat
The Atlas Lions have officially left the Africa Cup of Nations, losing to Benin national football team. After the two teams equally scored one goal during the second half, they entered extra time and ended the game with kicks.
The UN Fifth Committee approved earlier this week the MINURSO’s budget for 2019/20. The approved budget is higher than the one allocated to the peacekeeping mission in the previous year. This decision comes amid the United States’ UN cuts.
On Friday, July 5, jailed journalist Taoufik Bouachrine couldn’t attend a hearing of his appeal against a previous conviction, due to health issues, Arabic-language newspaper Alyaoum24 reports. The information was also confirmed by his lawyer, who told the same source that his client suffered from an «unbearable stomach ache». The same source indicates that a doctor checked him up and stressed that he is unable to attend the hearing. Bouachrine, who owns newspaper
«We are physically and mentally ready to face Benin and we must help our coach implement his plans», said Moroccan footballer Mbarek Boussoufa, Thursday, in Cairo. «We are suffering from heat in Egypt, but we are ready for [Friday’s] match and we will ignore the weather», he told reporters during a press conference attended by coach Hervé Renard. «We have all been criticized after the first game but we ignored all the critiques and worked hard to
During the 19th century, the North region of the United States fought against slavery and the states that wanted to maintain the practice. Denouncing the heinous system, American senator Charles Sumner compared slave-holding states to Morocco, where slavery was a common practice.