During the weekend, several countries around the world will be observing the new moon to determine the first day of Ramadan for 2019.
The main opposition party in Melilla may not be able to run for local elections, scheduled for May the 26th. Elections commission in Melilla has unanimously decided to invalidate a list of candidates from Spanish party Coalition for Melilla (CpM) for «not respecting Article 44 from the organic law of general electoral regime». The article indicates that electoral lists submitted by political parties must include an equal number of men and women, EFE reports. Coalition for Melilla
On Thursday, Canadian aerospace and transportation company Bombardier said that it is selling its Morocco facility, after adopting a new structuring strategy. The decision would not affect production in the facility located in Nouaceur, well-informed sources told Yabiladi.
Anglo-German travel and tourism company TUI is launching its first flight from Newcastle, a city in England, to Agadir, reports Travel Weekly. The new weekly flight will be operated by TUI in May 2020. TUI is rebranding the RIU Palace Tikida adults-only hotel in Agadir as its Tui Sensimar Tikida Beach, exclusively, for its new Newcastle-Agadir route. «We are really pleased to be adding Agadir to the summer 2020 program from Newcastle airport», TUI UK and Ireland aviation
British upstream gas company Sound Energy PLC announced, Wednesday, that its shares rose after it told investors that it received an offer from the Moroccan government, Proactive Investors said on May 1st. Sound Energy, which has three assets in the Kingdom (Tendrara, Anoual, and Sidi Mokhtar), said that a non-binding offer submitted by Morocco's Office National de L’Electricité et de L’Eau Potable (ONEE) aims to purchase its Tendrara’s gas. The offer
Racist and religious hate attacks have been on the rise in London following the Christchurch terror attacks that killed 50 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, BBC reported Wednesday, quoting data provided by the London police. According to the same source, the London police recorded 1,630 hate offences in March, the same month during which an Australian terrorist opened fire on worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch. 156 of these offences were deemed Islamophobic, almost twice the number
The Trump administration is looking into ways to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. Will Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) be affected by the White House’s recent decision ?
Qatar Airways, the state-owned flag carrier of Qatar, is expected to launch three weekly flights to Rabat, the company announced this week after signing a joint business agreement with Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc. The Qatari firm will be operating flights in Rabat via Marrakech and daily trips to Casablanca TTR Weekly reported. Commenting on this project, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker said : «We are pleased to launch this new gateway, while also increasing our
On Tuesday, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2468, extending the mandate of MINURSO by six months. Reacting to this decision, Morocco commended, through its Foreign Minister, the new resolution while the Polisario Front expressed its disappointment.
In Laayoune, separatist activist Ali Salem Boudjemaa Saadouni was sentenced to seven months in prison and a 5,000-dirham fine for «possession of drugs for personal use» and for «assault on a public agent», says EFE. According to sources quoted by the Spanish agency EFE, this conviction comes after the man in question participated in a series of independentist actions in the city, alongside a group of «Saharawis who reject Moroccan citizenship». Indeed, Ali
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