Spanish Agriculture Minister Luis Planas has urged the Moroccan Parliament to quickly ratify the fisheries agreement. Unless an extraordinary session is called, Spain has to wait until April.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to consider including Gnawa music in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2019, indicates a communiqué issued by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. After Morocco submitted a file in September 2018, the UN body will make its decision at the 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage to be held in Bogota,
After spending seven months with the reserves, Moroccan international player Adel Taarabt joined Benfica's first-team training, the club's manager Bruno Lage told the BBC. Taarabt, who was loaned to Italian club Genoa for 18 months, was unable to «break into» the Portuguese club's team. After returning to the club, in 2017, he was put at Benfica's reserve. According to the BBC, Taarabt's future changed due to his new coach, who joined the club in January. «He [Taarabt]
Moroccan national Malika El Aroud, sentenced in 2008 for terror-related offences, will be expelled to the Kingdom. The decision was endorsed after authorities in Belgium concluded that she wouldn’t be «subjected to torture» if deported to Morocco, reports Le Soir. Delivered on Friday, the ruling pronounced by the Aliens Litigation Council stated that the El Aroud can be taken back to her country of origin, after she appealed against her expulsion, stressing that she might be
In his 1820 account, a foreign merchant in Mogador described the fear, calamities and deaths that accompanied the 1799 plague. James G. Jackson's detailed letteres addressed the rise, progress and decrease of the epidemy that killed thousands of people in Morocco.
Australia's largest horticultural company Costa Group has opened a new berry facility in Morocco, reports Fresh Plaza. The new plant will be a berry packing platform that is «at the forefront of berry exports to the European Union, the United Kingdom, Russia and Asia», the same source said. Located in Larache, northern Morocco, the 10,000 square meter facility will be the biggest berry packing place, targeting the European market. It has a capacity of up to 12,000 tonnes of
Sufyan Mustafa, the son of Egyptian hate preacher Abu Hamza and his Moroccan wife, is planning to return to the UK after fighting in the Syrian civil war against Bashar al-Assad’s regime, reports Metro UK. Mustafa who is accused of terror-related offences and is suspected of being a Jihadi said that he is «desperate to return to Britain». However, the British authorities might not accept Mustapha’s request as he was stripped of his British citizenship. According to the
MP Pension, a Danish pension fund for academics, has decided to cut €10.7 million worth of holdings after releasing a list of firms that operate in warzones, reports Denmark's biggest pension fund IPE in a statement published Tuesday. MP Pension’s decision, taken after a position paper on the firms in question, targets Morocco’s OCP, the same source pointed out. «MP Pension has divested from Moroccan state-owned fertilizer producer OCP Group, citing its
A few days after King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visited Morocco, the president of Melilla referred to a «dark and very worrying» situation in the borders between Morocco and the autonomous city, reports local online newspaper El Faro de Melilla. Juan José Imbroda’s comments were made while he was discussing issues related to borders with Morocco, including trade. Moreover, the president said that «the central government visited Morocco, where it
In 2015, Morocco supported Muhammadu Buhari while running for Nigeria’s presidential election. This year, the Kingdom has chosen to back the Nigerian President through Zawia Tijaniyya.
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