In 1629, French navy member Isaac de Razilly sailed to Morocco to free Christian subjects, enslaved by Rabat and Salé’s corsairs. Razilly blockaded the two cities, leading to a civil war that weakened the country’s pirates.
A Muslim immigrant was denied a green card application by the United States, reports the Independent. The decision was taken after the man, who married an US citizen, was detained at Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas, where he was served pork sandwiches only. For more than six days, the Muslim man was forced to eat pork, which is restricted in Islam. Although Adnan Asif Parveen had a work permit allowing him to work legally in the United States, while his application for a green card was
On Tuesday morning, the Faculty of sciences and technologies at Hassan II University in Casablanca rendered homage to El Hassan Essayouti, a nuclear physics professor who worked at the institution. Essayouti is one of the 157 passengers who died Sunday, after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During this occasion, the professor’s former colleagues remembered him through the speech of the university’s dean. Rachida Roky, a biology
One of the two Moroccan nationals who were killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday, died on the same day as his birthday, reports Gulf News which made a list of the Arab victims on board the ill-fated Ethiopian Boeing 737 Max 8. The victim is the Moroccan official at the Ministry of Energy and Ecologist Ben Ahmed Chihab. The latter was attending an UN-backed panel on the Convention on Biodiversity, flying to Nairobi on his birthday : 10th of March. «On his official Facebook
Shortly after the Ethiopian Airlines crash took place, American aircraft manufacturing company announced, Monday, that it would update software in the 737 Max 8 involved in the tragedy. The decision was taken after the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it would mandate «design changes» in the aircraft by April, reports Reuters. According to the same source, «the software upgrade will be deployed across the 737 Max fleet in the coming weeks». This is
The 2019 Algerian presidential election, scheduled for April the 18th, will not be taking place. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced, in a letter addressed Monday to Algerian, that he will not seek a fifth term.
Police in Guelmim arrested, Monday evening, a gunman, 44, who opened fire on several people near his place in the «Tagna» district, says MAP news agency. The suspect, who was living abroad, opened fire randomly on passersby, using his hunting rifle. He killed a person born in 1991 and injured eleven others, including two police officers, said General Directorate of National Security in a communiqué. The same source indicated that the injured were transferred to
To the great displeasure of anti-normalization activists, ten Israeli judokas participated, during the weekend, to the Judo Grand Prix, held in Marrakech on the 9th and 10th of March. Although the Israeli anthem was not played during the competition, the Jewish state’s flag was hoisted in Marrakech. The Israeli government’s spokesperson Ofir Gendelman celebrated on his Twitter account the fact that the Israeli flag was hoisted twice in Marrakech, after two Israeli
The Polisario Front has sent M’Hamed Khaddad to Mauritania. The Polisario’s coordinator with Minurso handed over on Monday, March the 11th, a letter from Brahim Ghali to the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, reports Mauritanian press agency AMI. At the end of their meeting, Khaddad told Mauritania’s official news agency that he «informed» Ould Abdel Aziz about the «efforts made by the international community to help achieve a just and
Moroccan medical students in Morocco are faced with abnormal eating habits that harm their well-being. A new study shows that a third of these students suffer from eating disorders.
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