A Moroccan association invites Amir Peretz to chair a conference in Tangier

Amir Peretz, the former leader of the Israeli Labor Party, is invited by the Youth Association for Culture and Arts to attend a conference in Morocco. The president of the NGO, Amazigh artist Abdelali Rahmani, has chosen the Israeli former Minister of Defense because of his Moroccan origins. Inviting Peretz who was born in Bejaad on March the 9th, 1952, shows that «Islam is a religion of co-existence, dialogue, and tolerance», reports Aswat News. According to the same source,

Morocco’s economic growth reaches 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2018

Moroccan economic growth has reached 2.8 percent in the third quarter after it was limited to 2.4 percent during the previous quarter of 2018, reports Reuters quoting the planning agency. The growth is linked to improvements in the agricultural «output and non-agriculture sectors» says the same source, indicating that the first increased to 3.1 percent during this quarter. The good results have been achieved after Morocco recorded an «exceptional cereals harvest»

Un doctorant en anthropologie en immersion au parti Islam sort un ouvrage sur la formation

Alors que les élections communales et provinciales sont prévues pour le 14 octobre prochain, Lionel Remy, docteur en anthropologie à l’Université Catholique de Louvain, vient de publier un ouvrage sur le controversé parti Islam. Intitulé «Le Parti Islam, filiations politiques, références et stratégies» (éd. L’Harmattan), le livre est une véritable immersion dans les activités

Lancement d’un baccalauréat sport dans l’enseignement marocain

Nouveauté dans l’enseignement scolaire marocain. Un cursus dédié au sport de haut niveau, prévu pour la rentrée 2019, a été annoncé mercredi par le ministre de la Jeunesse et des sports, Rachid Talbi El Alami, indique Médias 24. La véritable innovation de ce cursus scolaire consiste en la mise en place par le ministère de l’Education nationale d’un «baccalauréat sport». Ce dernier

The number of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationals expelled by Germany is on the rise

The number of Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian nationals expelled by the German authorities has increased in the recent years, reports German daily Bild, quoted by De Spiegel. By the end of August, Germany expelled 476 people to their countries of origin while it repatriated only 61 others in 2015. In 2017, 634 Moroccan nationals were sent back to the Kingdom. 400 Algerian nationals were expelled as well by the end of August 2018, 57 in 2015 and 504 in 2017. The German authorities expelled 231

Nador : Moroccan police beat Yemeni refugees for trying to enter Melilla

Trying to enter Melilla, two Yemeni refugees were reportedly beaten last week at the Beni Ensar border crossing. According to the Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) section in Nador, the two Yemeni «nationals were tortured for trying to enter the enclave to apply for asylum». Contacted by Yabiladi, president of the NGOs local office in Nador Omar Naji said that the two men were arrested by Moroccan police officers, «who tortured them at the police station before

Nador : Ouverture du Festival international de cinéma et mémoire commune

Le rideau a été levé, samedi soir, sur la 7e édition du Festival international de cinéma et mémoire commune (FICMEC) de Nador, organisé par le Centre de la mémoire commune pour la démocratie et la paix. Le rendez-vous se tient du 6 au 11 octobre, sous le thème «Le cinéma au pluriel à la mémoire des femmes africaines». La cérémonie d’ouverture a été

The UN report highlights observations of the UNHCR about the Tindouf population

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed in his latest report to the Security Council on the Sahara conflict that UN humanitarian agencies have continued to cover the needs of the Tindouf camp population by granting it «125 000 food rations monthly». These food rations are sent to 90, 000 people living in the Tindouf camps, as adopted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) in 2005. The 35,000 additional

Japan awards Abdellatif Guerraoui medal of the Order of Rising Sun

President of the Morocco-Japan Friendship Association Abdellatif Guerraoui was awarded by the Japanese government the medal of the «Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon», in recognition of his commendable contribution to the development of Moroccan-Japanese relations. This decoration was handed, on Friday in Rabat, to Guerraoui by Japanese ambassador in Rabat Takuji Hanatani, on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. In a speech, Hanatani said he was honored to grant the

Tindouf : Le rapport de l’ONU confirme les estimations du HCR pour les populations

Le secrétaire général des Nations unies, Antonio Guterres, a souligné dans son dernier rapport au Conseil de sécurité sur la question du Sahara que les agences humanitaires onusiennes ont continué de couvrir les besoins des populations des camps de Tindouf à travers «la distribution mensuelle de 125 000 rations alimentaires». Ce nombre de rations alimentaires correspond au chiffre de 90 000 personnes vivant dans les camps de