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A British vessel evacuated between Boujdour and Gran Canara after fertiliser cargo catches fire

A crew of a British ship named MV Cheshire and owned by Bibby Line Limited, was rescued by helicopters 45 miles south of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, off northwestern Africa, the Dailymail reports. According to a communiqué issued by the company earlier this week, «the vessel is loaded with a full cargo of  ammonium nitrate based fertiliser and is on passage from Norway to Thailand to discharge». According to the same source MV Cheshire

Three Moroccans in custody over Catalonia attacks

Catalan regional police official Josep Lluis Trapero said in a press conference held this early afternoon that the investigation into the attacks in Catalonia is based on «the assumption that the authors were preparing these two attacks for some time in this house in Alcanar,» reports Le Monde. «We work with the hypothesis that the suspects were preparing both attacks for some time in this building of Alcanar. It was a group, we do not know the specific number, but

Belgium : Salah Abdeslam to stand trial for shooting policemen

Salah Abdeslam, one of the Paris attack suspects, will have to stand in trial for shooting policemen while trying to escape a «Europe-wide manhunt» in March 2016, threedays before his arrest, the Independent reports. Jailed since the 27th of April in Fleury-Mérogis prison in Paris, Salah Abdeselam will appear in court by the end of this year for taking part of the Paris attack in November 2015. «Abdeslam stands accused of playing a key role providing logistics for

Barcelona attack : At least 3 Moroccan nationals injured

At least 3 Moroccan nationals are among the victims of the two attacks that took place in Las Ramblas and Cambris respectively. According to the Kingdom’s consulate in Barcelona, the authorities are still identifying the nationalities of the victims. The latest updates suggest that 13 people were killed in the terrorist attack that took place in La Ramblas, Bercelona yesterday afternoon and dozens were injured when a van hit crowds of pedestrians. Hours later, most precisely during the

Barcelona attack : The Spanish police looks for 18-year-old Moussa Oukabir

Mossos d’Esquadra, the police force of Catalonia, Spain says that an 18-year-old boy named Moussa Oukabir is the first suspect in the terrorist attack that took place in Barcelona, as reported by El Pais. He is the youngest brother of one of the suspects detained on Thursday following the Ramblas’ incident. After hitting dozens of people with a van, the young man got out of the vehicle and fled. The police are looking for him as he is still on the run. According to the same source,

A van ran into a crowd in Barcelona

A white van ran into a crowd this afternoon in Rambla, Barcelona's main thoroughfare, right in the city center, AFP quotes El Pais. The Spanish daily, based on several police sources, announced that at least 10 people were killed, while radio Cadena SER, quoted by the Reuters agency, said that the number reached 13 deaths, specifies Le Point. According to police sources, it was a white van. The driver was reported to have left the vehicle and fled. The police launched a major operation to try

Ceuta : border reopened for passage of vendors and wares

The border separating Morocco from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in the Kingdom, has been reopened on Thursday for the passage of vendors and goods, says EFE. Sources from the local prefecture told the same source that the trade activities were resumed normally today. «On Wednesday afternoon the Ceuta prefecture began allowing Moroccan street vendors, whose livelihood is largely dependent upon trade with the Spanish enclave, to cross at the Tarajal border checkpoint», states

Italy : A Moroccan national drowns after saving a child

Yassine Faid, a 25-year-old Moroccan national, drowned after rescuing a child who slipped from a pedal boat into Lake Bolsena in Capodimonte, near Naples. The young man was on his honeymoon with his wife, says the Italian newspaper Gazzetta di Mantova. The incident took place on the 11th of August in the afternoon. The resident of Roverbella was on vacation at the lake with his wife and some family members to celebrate his recent wedding. Yassine Faid had rented a pedal boat with the daughter

600 migrants rescued in 24 hours by the Spanish coastguard

600 migrants have been rescued in the last 24 hours during their attempt to cross the Mediterranean from Morocco to Spain, the Telegraph reports. Spanish coastguards have saved 593 people on Wednesday, 424 of them in the Giblartar Strait and 169 near Alboran, a small islet in the Alboran Sea, part of the western Mediterranean, about 50 km north of the Moroccan coast and 90 kilometres south of the Spanish province of Almería. The migrants made it using two rafts, one of them was

Morocco’s GDP to reach 3.2 in 2018, according to the government

The Moroccan government stated on Wednesday 16th of August that the local economy will grow by 3.2 percent in 2018 as compared to this year (4.8%). The government’s expectations are more positive than the ones published by Morocco’s planning agency (HCP) which indicates that the economy will grow to only 2.9 in 2018. The government suggests that the budget deficit will move down to 3 percent of gross domestic products, less than 3.5 percent registered during the current year, as

Cerastes Vipera : A viper that lives in the Moroccan Sahara

Cerastes Vipera is a venomous viper species dwelling in the deserts of North Africa. The reptile is small, it has a large and triangle head with small eyes placed on the junction of the side and top of the head. The Sahara sand viper mostly lives in Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Chad and Egypt. In a video published on The 14th of August by Atheris.earth, an association that improves knowledge about reptiles and amphibians, Cerastes Vipera is filmed moving on the

An 11-year-old Moroccan child killed in a car accident in Italy

Ali El Haddachi is an 11-year-old Moroccan kid who was killed in a car accident on Sunday. He was the youngest of his three brothers. Ali was playing football with his friends near his house in Genoa (north-western Italy). At around 7 pm, he was hit by a 57-year-old Italian in his car who was speeding, reports the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which was quoted by 360.  The incident took place in Ferrada di Moconesi, in the region of Val Fontabuona near Genoa. «The child

Western Sahara : Horst Köhler officially appointed as the new personal envoy

The former German President (2004-2010), Horst Köhler was officially appointed on Wednesday, 16th of August, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara. A press release sent by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rabat, declares that «the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has named Horst Köhler, the former German President, as Personal Envoy for Western Saharav. The statement said that Horst Köhler «will

Germany : A Moroccan national detained for threatening to kill his girlfriend’s toddler

A 26-year-old Moroccan national who has threatened to throw himself from the window carrying his girlfriend’s baby is detained in Dresden, capital of the eastern German state of Saxony, and is facing 6 months to 10 years in prison. According to Sachsische Zeitung, a German newspaper, the man argued with his girlfriend on Sunday, then things escalated when he climbed to a window and attempted to jump while holding an 8-month baby. The same source also indicates that the man was holding a

Spain rescues 339 migrants from the Mediterranean

Spanish coastguard managed to rescue 339 migrants that were on seven makeshift boats in the Mediterranean sea, AFP reports. «339 people have been rescued, in seven canoes, between one o'clock in the morning and now,» the spokesman said. The rescued migrants were transferred to Tarifa (southern Spain). Among them at least 19 minors and one baby, says the same person. «The number of boats arriving on the Spanish coast this summer is unusual,» she said. «There are

Morocco and Nigeria create a committee for agricultural insurance

Morocco and Nigeria have founded a steering committee to set up an insurance scheme that would cover the Nigerian agricultural sector, This day reports today. The new committee will have to «use parametric products and leverage on the Moroccan model for crops covering selected areas of between 5000 and 10,000 hectares of land», the same source points out. According to the Nigerian online newspaper, this committee will bring together representatives of the Moroccan Agricultural

The Moroccan team to take part of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships

The Moroccan cycling team will compete in the 2017 UCI Road World Championships scheduled for 17-24 September in Bergen (southern Norway), according to the Royal Moroccan Cycling Federation (FRMC). This qualification comes after the results of the national senior, under-23, and junior teams that will take part of this year’s edition. And it was also included in the program contract concluded by the FRMC with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Moroccan National Olympic

Spain : Morocco's consul in Almería violently assaulted by a Moroccan national

The Moroccan consul in Almería, Hicham Dehane, is on sick leave after being violently assaulted by a Moroccan national. The 29-year-old man beat him in the office, causing a fracture in his left arm, says La Voz de Almería. The incident took place on the 28th of July, after a man named Adil attacked the consul, annoyed by the slowness of the administrative delays in obtaining his passport. The thirty-year-old would first have been shouting before physically attacking the