Maroc : La Marine royale porte assistance à 185 migrants subsahariens

Des garde-côtes de la Marine royale, en mission de patrouille en Méditerranée, ont porté assistance, durant la nuit du 6 au 7 décembre, à 185 Subsahariens, dont 23 femmes, candidats à l'émigration illégale, a-t-on appris auprès d'une source militaire. Les personnes secourues ont reçu les premiers soins nécessaires à bord des unités de la Marine royale, avant d’être acheminées

Royal navy assists 185 sub-Saharan Would-be migrants

The royal navy coast guard, while patrolling the Mediterranean, assisted on Dec. 7, 2018, 185 sub-Saharan candidates for illegal immigration, including 23 women, a military source said. The rescued people received the necessary health care onboard units of the royal navy before they were sent safe and sound to the ports and Nador and Tangiers, the same source added.

Marrakech : Dimitris Avramopoulos to lead EU delegation to migration conference

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos will visit Marrakesh on Dec. 9-11 and will lead the European Union (EU) delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration scheduled in the same city. Avramopoulos will represent the EU, which is participating as an observer in the Marrakesh conference, organized by the UN to adopt the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, said on Friday a statement from the European Commission. EU

Banning Moroccan women from entering Kuwait is fake news, says its ambassador

The information published by a Kuwaiti newspaper and reported by Moroccan media and social networks on the banning of Moroccan women from entering the Kuwaiti territory «is completely unfounded», said Kuwait's ambassador in Rabat, Abdul Latif Ali El Yahya. This information is «completely wrong» and does not represent the official position of the State of Kuwait, Ali El Yahya told MAP, noting that «things are going normally and Moroccans, men and women, travel to

UN Secretary General to participate in Marrakech Intergovernmental Conference on Migration

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Morocco this weekend to take part in the Marrakech Intergovernmental Conference (10-11 December) for the official adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, his spokesman announced Friday in New York. In Marrakech, Guterres will also take part, on Monday, in a high-level meeting to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as will several former United Nations High

Sahara : EU comments on the Geneva round table

The European Union (EU) expressed, on Friday, its readiness to «contribute to measures that can create a positive climate» in the UN process on the Sahara issue, after the «momentum» given to this issue at the first round table meeting, held on Wednesday and Thursday in Geneva. «The participation of all delegations and the announcement of a second meeting in the first quarter of 2019 show that all participants are ready to continue their commitment under the

Accused of defamation, Taoufik Bouachrine fined MAD1 400 000

Fined for defaming Agriculture Minister Aziz Akhannouch and former Finance Minister Mohamed Boussaid, journalist Taoufik Bouachrine is expected to pay 1 400 000 dirhams. The decision was pronounced by the Casablanca Appeal court on Wednesday for an article published on his newspaper Akhbar Al Yaoum and online newspaper Alyaoum 24. According to AFP, the journalist was prosecuted in 2015, after accusing the two senior officials of «amending an article of the 2016 Financial Act to

Migration : 1,400 Moroccan minors have arrived in Melilla this year

Melilla’s minister of Social Welfare Daniel Ventura announced that 120 unaccompanied foreign minors entered Melilla during the month of November, 2018, bringing the number of Moroccan underage migrants who arrived in the city this year to 1,400, reports EFE. In order to overcome the situation, the ministry urged authorities in the city to limit the number of Moroccan unaccompanied minor migrants entering the city to 200. The city of Melilla said in a statement that these numbers are

After attending the Geneva round table, Horst Köhler is expected to visit the US

The UN personal envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler is expected to visit New York in the coming days, said Spokesman for the Secretary-General Stéphane Dujarric in a daily press briefing on Thursday, December the 6th. At the UN headquarters, Köhler is expected to inform the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about the details of the «round table» held in Geneva and attended by four delegations from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario, stressed

Béni Mellal : Démantèlement d’une cellule terroriste de six individus

Dans le cadre des opérations proactives visant à faire face aux menaces terroristes, le Bureau central des investigations judiciaires (BCIJ) a procédé, sur la base d’informations précises fournies par les services de la Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire national (DGST), au démantèlement, vendredi à Béni Mellal, d’une cellule terroriste composée de six individus