On Wednesday evening, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018, compiled by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. In the section dedicated to the human rights situation in Morocco, the US Department of State hailed the progress made by the Kingdom without neglecting failures. The document made sure to feature condemnatory voices and those of the government without commenting on the two stands. This was
Chosen to take part in an Arctic adventure, Moroccan backpacker Farouk Nafiaa has been denied visa by Sweden for being «single and too young». He would have been the first Moroccan and African national to participate in the Swedish adventure.
Since Monday, student organization Attajdid Attolabi chaired a series of conferences at the faculty of Islamic law in Fes, despite the refusal of the Dean. After Abdellah Nhari and Jamila Ziyane, students at the university attended a conference of Salafist scholar Adil Reffouch.
State-owned petroleum company Qatar Petroleum announced, Wednesday, that it has reached an agreement with Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni to purchase 30 percent participating interested in the Tarfaya Shallow Exploration Permit, located offshore the cities of Sidi Ifni, Tan Tan and Tarfaya, reports Reuters. According to the same source, Eni will have a 45 percent participating interest, while Qatar Petroleum will be left with 30 percent. The remaining 25 percent will
The Arab Development Council for Women and Business announced, Tuesday, that it has stripped Moroccan poet Bouchrail Echchaoui of honor, after realizing that she visited Israel.
The UN personal envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler has, officially, invited Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario Front to attend the second round-table on the territorial conflict on March the 21st and 22nd, reports AFP, quoting the United Nations. The meeting, which is supposed to be attended by Foreign Affairs Ministers from Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as the Polisario’s representatives, will be held in a place near Geneva that was not revealed to media,
After students at the Catholic school of Melle, in Belgium, dressed as Muslims wearing «explosive belts», the Muslim Executive of Belgium reacted to the «controversial» celebration, complaining to the Inter-federal Anti-Discrimination Institution (UNIA), reports Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure. The executive, which represents the Muslim community in Belgium sought the head of the Catholic Education Flanders, says the same source, stressing that «these actions
Dutch police, in a village called Urk (central Netheralnds), arrested, Tuesday, two young men who have attacked the house of Dutch-Moroccan family, reports Dutch News. The arrestees, aged 18 and 21, are accused of storming the house of the Boukhizzou family alongside a mob and slightly injuring the 36-year-old mother, her son Soufyan and her daughter. According to the same source, the group of youngsters were involved in riotous actions on the same day, before the police restored order
Morocco is preparing for the second round-table on Western Sahara, to be held on the 21st and 22nd of March in Geneva. «Presidents of the Laayoune-Saguia Al Hamra regions, Sidi Ould Errechid and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Ynja Khattat were reportedly summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to attend a meeting in Rabat to prepare for the second round-table with Horst Köhler and representatives from Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario», a
The Paris wax museum, Musée Grévin, was recently renovated, updating the wax figures of some celebrities and politicians. According Facebook page Discovery Morocco, the wax statue of King Mohammed VI was one of the figures that were changed this year at the museum. King Mohammed VI's former wax figure at the Musée Grévin in Paris, France./Ph. DR The Moroccan king’s statue, wears a grey suit, black tie and a white shirt. It was placed near the one of
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