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Morocco holds the first Sambo competition in Ain Diab

Casablanca’s Ain Diab beach has hosted the first beach Sambo competition, according to Inside the Games, a website specialized in bringing the latest news about the world of Olympics, Commonwealth and Paralympic Games. The game was attended by 60 athletes with different age and weight categories. «Almost from the very beginning of the competition, fans from all over the beach began to draw to the site where they passed», said Dalil Scully, president of the Royal Moroccan

Cycling : Anass Ait El Abdia, a Moroccan national to take part of the Vuelta a España   

Anass Ait El Abdia is the only Moroccan to participate to the Vuelta a Espana, an annual multi-stage bicycle race that will be held in Spain from the 19th of August starting from Nimes, France and will end on the 10th of September in Madrid. The athlete will represent the United Arab Emirates, reports the official website of the Emirati team.   Sporting director, Simone Pedrazzini is confident about winning : «We have a good team, they are all in good shape», he told the

The Sudanese president leaves Tangier quietly

After spending holiday in Tangier, the Sudanese president returned to his country. Omar Hassan Al Bashir will presume his political activities by holding  a meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Haile Mariam Dessalegn, expected this Tuesday in Khartoum. A very important visit for both countries. Al Bashir’s visit to Morocco has angered several human rights activists. They have called El Othmani’s government to arrest him according to the two international warrants

The Ministry of Culture and Communications denies the allegations claimed by RSF

Moroccan authorities have rejected all accusations set by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claiming that they blocked international reporting in the Rif region, AFP news agency reported today. The international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press, has announced earlier in July through a report that Morocco has prevented journalists from covering the event that took place in Al Hoceima city. «The situation

The Moroccan writer and journalist Abdelkarim Ghallab dead at 98

The Moroccan journalist and writer, Abdelkarim Ghallab passed away on Sunday night in El Jadida at 98, his family said on Monday. The deceased was a political journalist, a novelist and a cultural commentator. He was a well-known and distinguished figure of the national movement where he fought as a militant, an intellectual and journalist. Abdelkarim Ghallab, who headed Al Alam newspaper for several decades until early 2000's, is the author of five novels and three collections of short

The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018 to be held in El Jadida

The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018, a global initiative aimed at harnessing the world's data and information resources to quantitatively describe and represent our planet, is to be held in El Jadida, Morocco from 17th to the 18th of April 2018, according to International Society for Digital Earth. The annual event will be hosted and co-organized by Chouaib Doukkali university and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) in partnership with the African Association of Remote Sensing of

USA : the man who hit the crowds with his car at Charlottsville is a Nazi sympathizer

The man who drove his car into the crowds that gathered on Saturday in Charlottsville, Virginia is a Nazi sympathizer according to the Washington Post. The 20-year-old suspect who allegedly killed a woman and injured 14 people has shown in the past support for Nazi views. He is a teacher named James Alex Fields, who adopted nationalist and extremist views since high school, according to Derek Weimer, a history teacher who taught the alleged driver back in Kentucky. The latter told the

A Polisario delegation visited the 19 Moroccans accused of drug trafficking

A delegation of the «Saharawi Committee for Human Rights», an official organization of the Polisario, went to the buffer zone of Tifarity to visit the group of 19 Moroccan detainees suspected of drug trafficking, indicates a media of the separatist group. «Prisoners had never been subjected to inhuman, degrading or ill treatment ... and they are in good health,» the organization said in a statement. Mustapha El Khalfi said on 27th of July during a press briefing that

Canada : Clashes broke off in a Moroccan festival in Laval

Between 100 and 200 young people aged between 15 and 18 started a fight which interrupted the second day of the Moroccan festival organized in Laval yesterday at around 5.30 pm. The police tried to disperse the clashes, said the Canadian news agency QMI. «The police attempted to intervene, but the youth threw stones at them. They hid and even surrounded the police at one point», said Lieutenant Geneviere Villemure of the Laval Police Department. The festivities had nevertheless

USA : White nationalist post-rally takes a tragic turn in Virginia

A demonstration organized by far-right wing movements in the USA has taken a tragic turn. A car rammed into the crowd, resulting in at least one fatality and tirtheen wounded in Charlottesville (Virginia), indicates press agency Reuter.  A far-right wing movement demonstration in the US has resulted in violence on Saturday, which prompted reactions from the American political class. The ambiguous position expressed by US president Donald Trump has been «criticized», as

London 2017 athletics : Moroccan athlete Fouad El Kaam qualified for men's 1500 m final

Moroccan athlete Fouad El Kaam was qualified on Friday in London for the 1500m final at the London 2017 World Championships. El Kaam earned the 5th place in his series with a time of 3 min 38s 64 / 100th, while his compatriot Abdelaati Iguider was eliminated after crossing the distance in the first series in 3: 40.76. Moroccan athlete Soufiane El Bakkali won the silver medal of the 3000m steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships held in the British capital until 13 August. El

Amnesty International : 66 Hirak detainees have reported suffering torture and other ill-treatment in custody

Amnesty International, a human-rights non-governmental organization, has published an article on its official website on the 11th of August, reporting accounts of several Hirak detainees who have claimed that they were allegedly tortured by the police while held in custody. According to Amnesty, around 66 people who were arrested amid the Hirak demonstrations held in the city of Al Hoceima reported that they were «heavily beaten, suffocated, stripped naked, threatened with rape and

USA : A Muslim woman receives $ 85,000 dollars for being forced by the police to remove her scarf

A Muslim woman who had been forced to remove her veil by the police while in police custody will receive $ 85,000 from the City of Long Beach, a suburb in Los Angeles, as part of an amicable settlement, According to AFP. Arrested at a roadside checkpoint in May 2015 on a set of charges that are still under investigation, «Kirsty Powell, a Muslim African-American, had filed a complaint after police officers forcibly removed her veil in front of Other male police officers and dozens

Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth calls Nigeria to not allow Morocco in the ECOWAS

The former Secretary General of the Commonwealth Emeka Anyaoku has urged the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari to refuse Morocco’s bid to join the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS), reports today ThisDay, the Nigerian national newspaper. According to the same source, Anyaoku announced that yesterday, 10th of August, in Lagos Nigeria’s largest city during the second annual Akintola Williams Foundation’s lecture. For the senior official, allowing Morocco

More funerals are organized in Brussels according to the Muslim rituals

The number of funerals organized according to the Muslim rituals is increasing sharply in Brussels, indicates online newspaper, Sud Info Quoting  VRT Nieuws. The Evere cemetery (Brussels-Capital Region) has, for example, seen the number of Muslim graves almost triple since 2003. «It seems to me that the link with the country of origin is shrinking,» says Ludo Beckers, Director of the Evere Cemetery. «When people of Muslim faith return to their country, they are

Football : Morocco to officially set a bid for hosting the 2026 World cup 

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) announced on Friday that it has set a bid to host the 2026 World cup. «The Royal Moroccan Football Federation officially set a bid on Friday August 11, 2017 to host the 2026 World Cup. The Federation has filed the application file with the committees responsible for this file in the International Federation of Football Association», said the FRMF in a press release. The current president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick

One of the Hirak’s lawyers has been summoned by the police

Abdessadak Elbouchattaoui, a member of the Hirak detainees' defense committee, said on Wednesday night on his Facebook page that he was summoned by the police in Tetouan. «Each voice is targeted and every activist and human rights activist is targeted,» he said, indicating that the reason why he was summoned by the police is linked to «his declarations to the national media and his opinion regarding the Hirak movement in the Rif region». Contacted by Al Aoual,

Luxembourg : Morocco among the countries to apply for asylum the most

Moroccan nationals are the fourth nationality to seek asylum in Luxembourg, according to the daily Luxemburger Wort. Out of a total of 1,369 people who sought international protection, 120 are Moroccan. The Syrians (224) were the first to seek asylum there, followed by Serbs (150) and Algerians (195). The country registered more applications this year than in 2016, which amounted to 1,025. This year, Luxembourg has granted refugee status to 619 people and subsidiary protection to 11 people.