Carried by two boats, 111 African migrants go missing in the Mediterranean

Two boats carrying 111 African migrants have been missing since Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea, mainly between Morocco and Spain, AFP reported, quoting the Spanish coast guard. The first boat carries 53 migrants while the second has 58 others in it. They are all of sub-Saharan origin, a coast guard spokesman told AFP. The Spanish authorities were first alerted by migrants NGO «Caminnado Fronteras» (Walking Borders) on Tuesday. A Spanish military aircraft, a coast guard

Morocco expels a Spanish photojournalist and RSF denounces the decision

Spanish photojournalist Judith Prat was expelled, Tuesday June 11, by the Moroccan authorities from Laayoune, Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday. According to Europa Press, Prat was visiting the city of Dakhla, where she conducted a photojournalism training that was attended by pro-Polisario jouranlists. RSF reported that the photojournalist was forced to leave Laayoune for Agadir after she was planning to spend the night there at the house of one of the

A Moroccan man sentenced to life in Turkey for killing an Iraqi national

Two Iraqis and a Moroccan national were sentenced, Wednesday, for killing Iraqi businessman Ahmed Mawlood Muhammad in 2016. According to Daily Sabah, the Iraqi man was kidnapped by three suspects for ransom as he was staying in Turkey to set up a currency exchange office in Istanbul. The three men murdered him and threw his dismembered body on the roadside, the same newspaper revealed. The three defendants, Mahmoud Khalaf Suleiman, Farouk Abdullah Hmod al-Dulaimi and Tariq Moutil, appeared in

The Palestinian government says Morocco will boycott the US-led Bahrain conference

The Palestinian government has said that Morocco will not attend the US-led conference, to be hosted by Bahrain. This announcement was made after a White House senior official told media that the Kingdom, alongside Egypt and Jordan, confirmed their attendance to the meeting, expected to unveil the economic portion of the «Deal of the Century».

Police arrest a Dutch national suspected of selling fake foreign passports

A 48-year-old Dutch national was arrested, Wednesday, in Marrakech for his alleged involvement in a case related to falsification and the sale of fake foreign passports, MAP reported. The investigation revealed that the suspect has allegedly tried to sell a foreign passport to an individual for MAD100,000, the General directorate of National Security (DGSN) said in a statement. The arrest resulted in seizing IT equipment, printing machines and documents used in forgery. The Dutch national was

El Othmani says he is not aware of Rabat’s participation to the US peace plan conference

Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani told Turkish news agency Anadolu, Wednesday, that he is not aware of Morocco’s «participation» to the Bahrain conference, scheduled for June 25 and 26 to unveil the economic portion of the United States’ Israeli Palestinian peace plan, aka the Deal of the Century. «I came back from Geneva yesterday night and I know nothing about the topic», El Othmani told Anadolu on the sidelines of a seminar held in Rabat. On

Moroccan comics artist Youssef Daoudi wins the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature award

Moroccan comics artist Youssef Daoudi was among the winners, awarded by the Pope Culture Classroom, an American nonprofit organization that educates in the areas of literacy and arts. The artist won the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards for his book «Monk!: Thelonious Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution», named as the best nonfiction adult comic book by the organization. The Denver-based organization introduced the winning books on June 1st,

Researchers scan the brains of Moroccan jihadist supporters in Spain to study radicalization

To know how radicals think, a group of researchers scanned the brains of Spanish men of Moroccan origin in Barcelona. The survey concluded that violent extremism may be linked to social exclusion.

Moroccans among migrants stranded off Tunisia

A rescue boat carrying 75 migrants, including Moroccan nationals, has been stranded off Tunisia for 12 days, Reuters reported, adding that the Tunisian authorities refused to let them enter the country. Quoting the Red Crescent, the press agency indicated that these migrants were rescued by an Egyptian boat in the Tunisian waters. The boat, which is stranded 25 km from the coastal city of Zarzis, was not allowed to disembark. The boat carries 64 Bangladeshis and migrants from Morocco, Sudan

Despite Morocco’s discontent, a Polisario delegation attends a TICAD meeting

A Polisario delegation attended on June 10th and 11th, preparations for the Summit on the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7). The presence of the Front was previously denounced by Morocco during two former meetings.