Authorities in the Beni Ansar border crossing foiled on Tuesday, a smuggling operation of Ecstasy, says MAP news agency. The investigation led to the arrest of four individuals suspected of being involved in the operation. Two of the arrestees are from Spain while the others are from the Netherlands, said the General Directorate for National Security in a statement. The police have seized 40,172 Ecstasy tablets, hidden in a Spain-plated car, said the same source. The suspects were placed in
The Dutch Supreme Court announced on Tuesday, October the 30th, that it is not extraditing Said Chaou, reports Dutch online newspaper BNDeStem. Chaou, who is accused of heading a criminal network, and getting involved in international drug trafficking, will not be handed over to the Moroccan authorities which requested its extradition. The Dutch Supreme Court ruled that Chaou «might not benefit from a fair trial» in the Kingdom, indicating that his co-defendants were
Moroccan footballer Hamza Mendyl, who currently plays as a left-back for Schalke 04, was suspended after receiving five yellow cards in the last appearances he made with the German club, reports NRZ. Mendyl is the first Schalke 04 player to be suspended since the beginning of this season. The decision does not surprise his manager Christian Heidel, especially as Mendyl «plays in the same style he had in Lille» and is «only 21 years old». Meanwhile, his coach Domenico
Moroccan student Maryem Amjoun won on Tuesday, 30th of October, the Arab Reading Challenge, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The 9-year-old girl was awarded during a ceremony, attended by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, and Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates at Dubai Opera. According to a communiqué issued by the Moroccan Ministry of National Education and sent to Yabiladi on Tuesday, Maryem Amjoun is a third-grade student who
One day before the opening of the G20 Africa Partnership Conference, held in Berlin on Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy to Western Sahara met on Monday with the Ivorian President, Alassane Ouatarra. The latter is close to the Kingdom’s position on many international issues, including the Sahara conflict and Morocco’s bid to join the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). At the end of the meeting, President Ouattara said on his Facebook account
Morocco will receive in 2021 the country’s first F16 Viper fighter jet, a single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force. According to French-language online newspaper Le360, these new fighter jets were ordered by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces from the American aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin. «Morocco was one of the first African countries to express interest in acquiring a number of F16
The next extraordinary African Union summit will be held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on the 17th and 18th of November. The meeting will be exclusively devoted to the reforms introduced to better the work of the continental organization. This important project is led by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the current chairperson of the African Union. This change is well perceived by Morocco which is in favor of reforming the Union’s Constitutive Act. While waiting for this meeting, the
Le groupe marocain Intelcia, opérant dans l'externalisation des métiers de la relation client, projette de doubler ses effectifs à 600 collaborateurs en 2019 dans ce pays, apprend-on auprès du groupe. Comptant une trentaine d'employés au lancement de ses activités en Côte d'Ivoire il y a une année, Intelcia a décuplé ses effectifs en 2018 et se fixe désormais l'objectif de les porter à 600 au cours de
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani received, on Monday in Doha, Abdellatif Hammouchi, director-general of national police and of national territory surveillance, who is on a visit to Qatar to take part in the 12th international event for homeland security and civil defence in the Middle East "Milipol Qatar 2018". The audience took place in the presence of Qatar's prime minister and interior minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani, who has met earlier in the day
La première ombrière de recharge de véhicules électriques à l'énergie solaire est en phase d'installation à Rabat, indique l’Institut marocain de recherche en énergie solaire et énergies nouvelles (IRESEN). Initié par l’IRESEN, ce projet découle d’un programme de recherche et de développement traitant de la mobilité durable que l'institut mène depuis plus de 4 ans, en vue de
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