L’ambassadeur du Maroc à Londres Abdesselam Aboudrar a offert dimanche dans sa résidence une réception en l’honneur de l’équipe marocaine ayant participé aux championnats du monde World Para Athletics 2017, organisés du 14 au 23 juillet dans la capitale britannique. L’ambassadeur du Maroc a félicité à cette occasion tous les membres de la sélection nationale ayant porté haut le drapeau
Fouzi Lekjaa a été réélu président de la Fédération royale marocaine de football (FRMF) pour un mandat de quatre ans, lors d'une assemblée générale élective, tenue dimanche au Centre international de conférences Mohammed VI de Skhirate. Fouzi Lekjaa était le seul candidat en lice dans cette AGE, convoquée à un an de la fin de son premier mandat (2014-2018). Il a été
A Moroccan peacekeeper was killed on Sunday in southeastern Bangassou, Central Africa. «A MINUSCA (peacekeeping mission) military convoy was targeted by anti-Balaka», the UN said in a statement published on its official website. During the attack, a Moroccan peacekeeper died and three others were wounded. The ambush «took place while the Moroccan peacekeepers were escorting water tankers to the river to help resupply the village», the MINUSCA said on Sunday sending
The Kingdom of Morocco has purchased a USD14 million mansion in the District’s Massachusetts Avenue Heights neighborhood, USA on Thursday, Curbed Washington DC reports. The house was owned since 1994 by Mandell Ourisman, a chair man of automotive group, who died on the 5th of July and his wife Mary Ourisma, a former Ambassador to Barbados. The mansion has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and three-baths according to the same source. The new Moroccan property is located next to
The 8th edition of the world championship «Moulay El Hassan GKA Kitesurf world tour Morocco - Dakhla 2017», organized by the association Lagon Dakhla and the Global Kitsurfing Association (GKA), ended on Saturday with an overall satisfaction from participants and organizers alike. The closing ceremony of this world championship, under the High patronage of King Mohammed VI, was marked by the awarding of trophies to the winners in the presence of Mohamed Sajid, Minister of Tourism,
La 8ème édition du championnat mondial «Moulay El Hassan GKA Kitesurf world tour Morocco - Dakhla 2017», organisée par l’association Lagon Dakhla et le Global Kitsurfing Association (GKA), a pris fin samedi sur une note de satisfaction générale des participants et des organisateurs de cet évènement. La cérémonie de clôture de ce championnat mondial, placé sous le patronage du roi Mohammed VI, a
Three people died in a car accident on the 21st of July in Tortona, a commune of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy, Alessandria News, a local online newspaper reports. The driver lost control of the car and hit a tree, he was transported to the hospital in a critical condition while the three other passengers succumbed instantly. According to the same source the three deceased Moroccans aged between 26 and 35 years old. Their names have not yet been released but their bodies were
The US-based NGO Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged on Friday the Moroccan authorities to release Hamid Mahdaoui, director and editor-in-chief of the Badil.info news website, arrested on Thursday in Al Hoceima. «Moroccan authorities should release Hamid Mahdaoui and drop all charges against the journalist», said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program coordinator Sherif Mansour. «Journalists in Morocco should be free to report on matters of public importance
«Since the start of the Rif Hirak movement in October 2016, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented numerous violations of freedom of information.» Thus states a new press release published on Saturday, signed by the NGO and sent as an open letter to the Moroccan authorities and the international public opinion regarding the protest movement of the province of Al Hoceima. In particular, RSF denounced «the attitude of the Moroccan authorities which deliberately hinder
«Identity checks carried out by the national security services on Thursday in Al Hoceima led to the arrest of six people among the participants to a demonstration which was not registered with the public authorities and consequently banned». The local authorities of the city of Al Hoceima, quoted by the news agency MAP, said on Friday.«It has been found that the arrested persons had search warrants issued against them for cases of ordinary offenses», said the same