Trois touristes étrangers ont été légèrement blessés, jeudi, dans un accident de la circulation à Agadir, apprend-on auprès des autorités locales de la Wilaya d'Agadir. ''Une voiture a légèrement blessé, jeudi au niveau de l'avenue Al-Moukawama, trois touristes étrangers qui ont été évacués à l'hôpital provincial d'Agadir qu'ils ont quitté après
A white van ran into a crowd this afternoon in Rambla, Barcelona's main thoroughfare, right in the city center, AFP quotes El Pais. The Spanish daily, based on several police sources, announced that at least 10 people were killed, while radio Cadena SER, quoted by the Reuters agency, said that the number reached 13 deaths, specifies Le Point. According to police sources, it was a white van. The driver was reported to have left the vehicle and fled. The police launched a major operation to try
The border separating Morocco from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the Kingdom, has been reopened on Thursday for the passage of vendors and goods, says EFE. Sources from the local prefecture told the same source that the trade activities were resumed normally today. «On Wednesday afternoon the Ceuta prefecture began allowing Moroccan street vendors, whose livelihood is largely dependent upon trade with the Spanish enclave, to cross at the Tarajal border checkpoint», states
Yassine Faid, a 25-year-old Moroccan national, drowned after rescuing a child who slipped from a pedal boat into Lake Bolsena in Capodimonte, near Naples. The young man was on his honeymoon with his wife, says the Italian newspaper Gazzetta di Mantova. The incident took place on the 11th of August in the afternoon. The resident of Roverbella was on vacation at the lake with his wife and some family members to celebrate his recent wedding. Yassine Faid had rented a pedal boat with the daughter
600 migrants have been rescued in the last 24 hours during their attempt to cross the Mediterranean from Morocco to Spain, the Telegraph reports. Spanish coastguards have saved 593 people on Wednesday, 424 of them in the Giblartar Strait and 169 near Alboran, a small islet in the Alboran Sea, part of the western Mediterranean, about 50 km north of the Moroccan coast and 90 kilometres south of the Spanish province of Almería. The migrants made it using two rafts, one of them was
Le projet de loi de finances (PLF) 2018 table sur un taux de croissance de 3,2%, soit un ralentissement par rapport à 2017 (4,8%). Le gouvernement prévoit un maintien de la dynamique des secteurs non agricoles, dont la valeur ajoutée devrait s'établir à 3,6% en 2018 contre 2,9% une année auparavant, a indiqué le chef du gouvernement, Saâdeddine El Othmani. Dans une note de cadrage adressée aux différents
The Moroccan government stated on Wednesday 16th of August that the local economy will grow by 3.2 percent in 2018 as compared to this year (4.8%). The government’s expectations are more positive than the ones published by Morocco’s planning agency (HCP) which indicates that the economy will grow to only 2.9 in 2018. The government suggests that the budget deficit will move down to 3 percent of gross domestic products, less than 3.5 percent registered during the current year, as
Cerastes Vipera is a venomous viper species dwelling in the deserts of North Africa. The reptile is small, it has a large and triangle head with small eyes placed on the junction of the side and top of the head. The Sahara sand viper mostly lives in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Chad and Egypt. In a video published on The 14th of August by Atheris.earth, an association that improves knowledge about reptiles and amphibians, Cerastes Vipera is filmed moving on the
Ali El Haddachi is an 11-year-old Moroccan kid who was killed in a car accident on Sunday. He was the youngest of his three brothers. Ali was playing football with his friends near his house in Genoa (north-western Italy). At around 7 pm, he was hit by a 57-year-old Italian in his car who was speeding, reports the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which was quoted by 360. The incident took place in Ferrada di Moconesi, in the region of Val Fontabuona near Genoa. «The child
The former German President (2004-2010), Horst Köhler was officially appointed on Wednesday, 16th of August, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara. A press release sent by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rabat, declares that «the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has named Horst Köhler, the former German President, as Personal Envoy for Western Saharav. The statement said that Horst Köhler «will