A gunman kills a person and injures 11 others in Guelmim

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

The Israeli flag hoisted at the Judo Grand Prix in Marrakech

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

Sahara : Brahim Ghali sends a message to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz

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

A third of Moroccan medical students suffer from eating disorders, says a new study

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.

Morocco drops proceedings against Spanish activist Helena Maleno

The Tangier court has abandoned proceedings against Spanish activist Helena Maleno, who had been accused of having alleged links with people traffickers, report Spanish daily El Mundo.    «The Moroccan court has stated that there is no evidence against Maleno», Walking Borders’s spokesperson, who is Helena Maleno herself, said in a statement. Soy Helena Maleno, defensora de Derechos Humanos, y... ¡la justicia marroquí ha archivado la causa penal

After the Ethiopian Airlines crash, RAM grounds Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane

Royal Air Maroc (RAM), the Moroccan national carrier, announced, Monday, that it has suspended the use of Boeing's new 737 MAX 8 aircraft, following the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people. The decision was taken to «start aircraft maintenance», RAM CEO Abdelhamid Addou told French-language online newspaper HuffPost Maroc. Aircraft manufacturing company Boeing delivered Morocco’s first Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane on December the 22nd, 2018. The latter has been

Morocco and Algeria are the largest arms importers in Africa, according to SIPRI

According to data made public by SIPRI’s 2018 Trends in International Arms Transfers, Morocco and Algeria are the largest arms importers in Africa. The USA and France were the main suppliers of arms to the Kingdom in 2014–18.

Western Sahara : The second round-table to take place on March the 21st and 22nd in Geneva

After the UN Secretary-General’s Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced last week that the second Western Sahara round-table will take place in the second half of March, reports suggested that the meeting will be held on the 21st and 22nd of the same month in Geneva. Quoting sources close to the file, the Algerian press agency (APS) reported that the four parties will be invited to take part in the meeting for two days. «The parties in question have not been summoned

The two Moroccans killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash were attending an UN panel

Two Moroccan nationals died in the terrible Ethiopian Airlines crash, that took the lives of 157 people Sunday morning, reports Ethiopian press agency ENA. The two victims are Moroccan officials who were traveling to Nairobi to attend a major environmental conference backed by the UN, reports French-language newspaper Le360. One of them is Ahmed Ben Chihabe, 60, a senior member of the Department of Environment who held a position in the Draa-Tafilalet region, the same source said. The second

After two weeks of silence, diplomatic sources say Morocco met Horst Köhler in Paris

Morocco has finally broken its silence regarding a meeting that took place in February in Paris. The Kingdom’s diplomacy ended up admitting, implicitly, that a meeting between its representatives and the UN personal envoy to Western Sahara Horst Köhler has taken place. The Paris meeting «is part of the consultations maintained between Morocco and the United Nations to reach a final political solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara», said Sunday, March