While the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler is currently touring the region, the Polisario Front is taking advantage of this trip, relying on separatists in the Sahara. In a message made public by Futuro Sahara, a pro-Polisario online newspaper, the separatist movement urged Sahrawis in «M'Hamid El Ghizlane, Lagouira» on Tuesday to participate in «peaceful demonstrations». These protests will take place
On Twitter, Moroccan social media users have launched a campaign, boycotting sports radio station Radio Mars. #مقاطعون_لراديو_المرقة https://t.co/c0oyz3TX4l — العقيد يونس الكتباني (@ToToPoStOoOo) 25 juin 2018 Blocking the station’s official account on Twitter, internet users are accusing the media of spreading fake news related to the Morocco national football team and the French coach Hervé Renard, who currently manages the Atlas
UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler arrived Monday, 25th of June, in Mauritania. He met first with President Mohamed Ould Albdelaziz and then with Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh. The diplomat is expected to head later to the Tindouf camps for another round of negotiations with the Polisario leadership. Before visiting Mauritania, Köhler was in Algiers on the 23rd and 24th of June, where he met with Algerian Foreign
After a tough game against the Spanish team, French coach Hervé Renard, who manages currently the Atlas Lions, said he was proud of his squad’s performance at the 2018 World Cup, held in Russia, reported MAP. «The team is leaving the competition with pride and we will be remembered for a long time especially because we have not lost to one of the world's best teams», he said, adding that the Atlas Lions «looked less experienced in the first
In Kaliningrad to cheer for the Atlas Lions, Moroccan-American national Yassine Omairy was arrested, Monday, in Russia for wearing a t-shirt with the caption «Shame on you FIFA». Through a series of posts, Omairy who was in the city to watch Morocco's last World Cup game this year against Spain, explained that he was asked by a FIFA representative to remove his t-shirt. In a video posted on his Facebook account and shared on social media, Yassine Omairy was trying to explain to
Sophia Loesch, a 28-year-old German student, who went missing for more than a week, was found dead in Spain, reports TPI News. Investigators believe that a 41-year-old Moroccan suspect raped her and killed her. Identified on Saturday, June the 23rd, the body of the missing woman was discovered Friday in Asparrena, a municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. She had to go to Bavaria where her friends were waiting for her. The suspect, who was
Morocco’s ambassador to Nouakchott Hamid Chabar was received Monday, 25th of June, by Mauritania’s Foreign Minister, Ismail Ould Cheikh, says the Mauritanian press agency (AMI). The meeting comes just a few days after the Moroccan diplomat was granted an audience with President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz. Appointed on June the 11th, Ould Cheikh has been meeting with representatives of foreign countries in Mauritania. Before receiving the Moroccan ambassador, he held talks with his
A Moroccan national, who entered the Canary Islands illegally, was arrested on the 19th of June for allegedly inciting hatred against Jews on social media, reports Europa Press. The 32-year-old man is accused of spreading hate speech mainly on Facebook and Youtube targeting the Jewish community in Spain through messages and posts. According to the same source, the suspect, who has not been tried yet, had been under investigation since 2017.
Les deux perles de l’athlétisme marocain, Soufiane El Bakkali et Abdelati Iguider, figurent en tête d’affiche du 11e Meeting international Mohammed VI d’athlétisme, qui se déroulera le 13 juillet à Rabat, avec la participation de plusieurs champions du monde. Sur le 3 000 m steeple, El Bakkali, étoile montante de l’athlétisme national et révélation des Jeux olympiques 2016 à Rio de Janeiro, promet une
Moroccan international player Youssef Ait Bennasser had to leave his teammates in Russia, heading to France because of a knee injury, announced Sunday French coach Hervé Renard. Wounded while training the day before the team’s last World Cup match, the Moroccan midfielder has undergone a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and can no longer play. He left the Atlas Lions at the request of his club, AS Monaco, «for further examinations», said Hervé Renard during a
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