A man was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 1,500 euros for exploiting workers, says La Voz de Galicia. Between 2015 and 2016, he exploited a Moroccan employee who worked in his farm, located in the A Pastoriza village (Galicia). According to the same source, the Moroccan man had an oral work contract. The employer agreed to give him 500 euros a month, as a salary, provide him with a house and get his work permit and other administrative work done. However, according to the
La 16e campagne nationale de lutte contre la violence à l'égard des femmes, qui se poursuivra jusqu'au 15 décembre, a été lancée lundi à Rabat sous le thème «Mobilisation sociétale contre la violence faite aux femmes». Lors du Forum national marquant le lancement de cette campagne, la ministre de de la Famille, de la solidarité, de l'égalité et du développement social, Bassima Hakkaoui, a
Morocco’s Cadi Ayyad University has once again been ranked first in the Maghreb region and among French-speaking universities in Africa by the 2019 Times Higher Education, says MAP news agency. The Marrakesh university was positioned 15th in the Arab World and 12th in Africa, added the same source. According to statistics gathered by the international ranking, the Cadi Ayyad University is thus the best academic institution in Morocco. The Times Higher Education ranking is based on 13
L'Université Cadi Ayyad (UCA) est arrivée, de nouveau, en tête des universités marocaines, du Maghreb et de l’Afrique francophone dans le classement mondial «Times Higher Education 2019». L'UCA occupe la 15ème place dans le monde arabe et le 12ème rang en Afrique, indique un communiqué de cet établissement universitaire parvenu à la MAP. D'après le même classement effectué par discipline,
Le Maroc compte lever un milliard d'euros sur le marché financier international en 2019, a annoncé le ministre de l’Économie et des finances, Mohamed Benchaâboun. Une émission sur le marché financier international «est envisagée en 2019, autour d’un milliard d’euros ou de dollars, mais tout dépend bien évidemment des conditions qui seront offertes par le marché et de l’appétit des
Un Forum économique sur les opportunités d'affaires entre la France et le Monde arabe se tiendra le 6 décembre prochain à Paris, avec pour objectif de faire avancer le partenariat franco-arabe et de mettre en exergue les opportunités de partenariats et de développement. Organisé par la Chambre de Commerce Franco-Arabe en partenariat avec l'Union des Chambres Arabes, basée à Beyrouth, le Forum réunit chaque année les
Argan oil can now be bought and consumed by Jews, according to Israeli international 24-hour news and current affairs television channel, I24 News. In a video published Monday, November the 26th, by the same channel the steps followed by Argan producers in the country are explained. The oil, dubbed Morocco’s white gold, is extracted from small nutshells collected and then peeled by women employed by cooperatives. «The business employs over 200 women … and it is rich in
The Criminal Court of Turnhout sentenced, on Monday, Moroccan-Dutch footballer Ismail H'Maidat to 46 months in prison. He was prosecuted for having participated in five armed robberies near Turnhout (Belgium). The events took place on New Year’s Eve and on January the 6th. The public prosecutor in Turnhout requested that the footballer receives a four-year sentence. Ismail H'Maidat and his accomplice, another Dutch man in his twenties, was also sentenced to 46 months in
Eyewitnesses saw a Moroccan girl jump in front of a train that entered the station of Pisa in Italy. The 19-year-old Moroccan girl died on Sunday afternoon, surrendering to her wounds after she was hit by a train carrying goods and coming to Pontedera, an industrial town in the province of Pisa. According to Italian newspapers Il Tirreno and Il Fogliettone, the victim was three months pregnant. Investigators suggest that the woman committed suicide. The young girl had been in Italy for some
Royal Navy assisted on Saturday a boat carrying 53 sub-Saharan migrants, including eight women, near Nador. According to MAP news agency, which quotes a military source, members of the Royal Navy found the bodies of 15 migrants near the boat, which has been sailing for four days. Migrants have been transferred to the Nador port, said the same source. Spanish newspaper El Mundo wrote that the situation of the boat was reported by Spanish NGO Walking Frontiers, headed by Helena Maleno. It is