700 migrants have tried to force their way into Ceuta in a failing attempt, Associated Press, an American nonprofit news agency, said today. According to the Interior Ministry’s office in Ceuta «migrants also tried to scale the six-meter-tall barbed –wire fences around Ceuta after the early Thursday crossing attempt at the Tarajal post failed, but were again repelled by Moroccan and Spanish police». On Wednesday, the Moroccan and Spanish authorities have closed the
Three Saudi nationals were sentenced yesterday in Dubai to ten years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting a Moroccan woman, reports the Emirati newspaper The National. In January 2017, three men aged between 24 and 27 had accompanied a 32-year-old woman to their hotel room to «party». One of them raped her and forced her to «pleasure to his brother and his friend.» «We spoke for a while and I told them I was heading to another club but they invited me to
A Moroccan woman living in Bengaluru, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state was mugged by two men who broke into her apartment last week, The Times of India said yesterday. Identified as Mouna Boujmal, the 27-year-old national works for IDEX, a corporation based in the USA and is engaged in the development, design, and manufacture of fluidics systems. She was given an apartment as part of her training period where she lives. According to the same source, Boujmal heard a
Morocco has set a historical record on the daily consumption of electricity, respectively on the 7th and 8th of August due to the intense heat wave that the kingdom witnesses these days, The National Office of Electricity and Potable Water (ONEE) said on Wednesday. «Morocco has set a historical record of the electric power demanded, both in the morning and the evening of Monday 7th of August 2017 as well as the daily consumption of electricity on Tuesday 8th of August 2017», ONEE
Le Maroc a enregistré des records historiques de la puissance électrique appelée et de la consommation journalière en énergie électrique, respectivement les 7 et 8 août, en raison de la période de forte chaleur qui sévit actuellement sur l’ensemble des régions du royaume, a annoncé mercredi l'Office national de l'électricité et de l'eau potable (ONEE). «Le Maroc a enregistré des records
Vegetable exports to the European Union have grown by 17 percent in the first semester of 2017 compared to the first six months of the previous year, the Chinese news agency, Xinhua reports today. The revenues generated from these exports have amounted to 551.8 million Euros (648 million USD) in the first half of the current year as compared to 2016 when it only stood at 470.6 million Euros (553 million USD), stated the same source quoting the Moroccan financial daily
Aucun produit à base du Fipronil n'est homologué au Maroc ni en agriculture ni chez les animaux domestiques dont les produits sont destinés à la consommation humaine, entre autres chez les volailles. C’est ce qu’a souligné ce mercredi l'Office national de sécurité sanitaire des produits alimentaires (ONSSA), réagissant au retrait du circuit de commercialisation, dans certains pays européens, des œufs de
The delegation of the Spanish government in Ceuta, in coordination with the Moroccan authorities, decided to suspend for a week the passage of goods and porters at the Tarajal border post, according to the EFE agency. The reason why is linked to the migratory pressure that took place at the border between the two countries. An agreement between the Spanish government delegation and the Moroccan authorities, which includes both the closure of the Tarajal II passage reserved for porters, as well
Morocco is likely to be entrusted with the organization of the world athletics championships in 2025. It is expected that an African country will host the World Championships of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) , according to Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, president of the Confederation of African Athletics, reports Inside the Games. According to him, six African countries are likely to host this high-mass sports : Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South
The Spanish police found on Tuesday 30 Moroccan and Algerian migrants, including ten miners, hidden in fairground vehicles, AFP reported. Officers used heartbeat detectors and dogs to locate the migrants, hidden in bumper cars and a «ghost train». The vehicles intended to transport these rides were waiting to board ferries bound for mainland Spain, according to the Civil Guard. «They try to use attractions that are only half covered up to jump in and hide inside,» a