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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

Azemmour : A man allegedly accused of cannibalism and murder

Local media platforms have reported on Monday, a very shocking murder that took place during the weekend in Azemmour, a coastal town near El Jadida. According to h24info, a man was arrested for murdering a 14-year-old teenager, eating his heart and drinking his blood. Relying on the story published by the daily newspaper Al Akhbar on Monday, the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal in El Jadida «extended on Saturday by 24 hours, the custody of a person accused of murdering his

Donald Trump finally denounces Charlottesville' s events

Donald Trump, the president of the United States has finally denounced on Monday, August 14th the «racist violence» that took place in Virginia and led to the death of a female counter-protester during a rally organized by right-wing activists in Charlottesville, according to AFP news agency. «Racism is evil», he said from the white house. «And those who cause violence on its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other

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