La sélection nationale marocaine masculine a remporté la médaille d’or – catégorie Kata – lors de la 14e édition de la Coupe internationale Mohammed VI de Karaté. Il s’agit de la cinquième étape du circuit Première League, organisée du 6 au 8 avril à Rabat. Par ailleurs, la sélection nationale féminine a remporté la médaille d’argent. Le trio marocain Adnan El
Allah save the Queen, who is apparrently a descendant of Prophet Mohammed, at least this is what some Muslims think. Queen Elizabeth's alleged Muslim origins are making headlines again, reports The Economist. In the Middle East and North Africa several scholars and journalists are trying to figure out whether the 91-year-old monarch is truly of a Muslim ascendence. Referring to an article by Moroccan newspaper Al-Ousboue published March in Casablanca, The Economist suggests that the Queen
A van drove into the crowd Saturday, 7th of April, in the city of Münsten (Germany) killing three people and injuring many others. According to several German sources, the driver is a 49-year-old man who is psychologically disturbed. «The assailant has tried before to commit suicide», according to ZDF TV channel while Süddeutsche Zeitung, a German daily newspaper said that the authorities have not found elements proving that it was a terror attack, reports Midi
Morocco's national football team is scheduled to play three friendlies tooling up for the 2018 World Cup to be hosted this summer by Russia starting from June the 14th, said the Royal Moroccan Federation (FRMF) in a statement issued on Satuday. The Atlas Lions will face Ukraine and Slovakia on the 30th of May in Switzerland on the 4th of June, before playing against Estonia on the 9th of June in Tallinn, the same source said. The national team had won its first two friendlies against Serbia
A truck drove into the crowd on Saturday afternoon in Münster, a city in western Germany, reports Le Monde. Germany's Interior Minister said three people were killed in the Münster vehicle-ramming attack and about 30 others were wounded, six of them are severely injured. The driver killed himself with a gun after the attack. The police do not exclude that this might a terror-related attack but call to avoid “any kind of speculation”. People were advised to stay away from
La sélection nationale de football disputera trois matchs amicaux dans le cadre de préparation pour la phase finale de la Coupe du Monde Russie-2018, prévue le 14 juin prochain, indique samedi un communiqué de la Fédération royale marocaine de football (FRMF). Les Lions de l'Atlas affronteront l'Ukraine et la Slovaquie, respectivement le 30 mai et le 4 juin prochains en Suisse, avant de croiser le fer avec l'Estonie, le 9 juin à Tallinn,
La sélection marocaine scolaire de cross-country est arrivée en tête lors des championnats du monde de cette discipline tenus du 2 au 4 avril à Paris. La sélection marocaine, qui a ainsi réalisé le même exploit que la précédente édition, organisée en Hongrie en 2016, a été triplement titrée chez les garçons suivie de la Nouvelle-Zélande et de la Turquie, chez les filles
Le Haut-Commissariat aux anciens résistants et anciens membres de l’armée de libération (HCAR) a déploré le décès de l’ancien résistant, Ben Salem El Khoumani, qui s’est éteint mercredi à Zagora. Dans un communiqué parvenu vendredi à la MAP, le Haut-Commissariat indique que feu El Khoumani, né en 1926 à M’hamid El Ghizlane, a rejoint les rangs de l’Armée de
Three Moroccans were arrested in Spain for belonging to a criminal network that smuggles glass eels to Asia, Associated Press reports Friday. Four Chinese citizens and three Spaniards were also arrested in the same operation which has been conducted in March by the European Union’s police body and revealed today. The Spanish Civil Guard seized 460 kilograms of glass eels in southern Spain. They were intended to be sold for 400 million Euros, said the same source. The network takes
British lawyer Randy Dixon joined journalist Taoufik Bouachrine’s defense committee. The new recruit has published this Friday, April the 6th, a long statement bearing his signature, on Alyaoum24, a newspaper that belongs to Bouachrine. In order to assert the rights of his client, Mr Dixon wielded the threat of «seeking the support of the African Commission of Human Rights and other bodies at the African Union», as well the «Working Group on arbitrary detentions»