In a detailed annual report, the International Monetary Fund has evaluated the economic and financial situation in Morocco urging it to implement structural reforms. The IMF assessment comes as the Moroccan Central Bank has not announced yet the first phase of the new currency exchange regime.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa is not giving Morocco an answer on its admission bid in its upcoming summit scheduled for the 16th of December in Abuja, Nigeria, an authorized source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation told Yabiladi on Friday. In fact, the Pan-African organization has decided to postpone deciding on Morocco’s application, the same source explained.
What is the estimated number of the Moroccan migrants detained in Libya? This question has left the Minister of Relations with Parliament, spokesman for the government silent during a press briefing organized on Thursday afternoon. Mustapha El Khalfi, on the other hand, announced that the commission in charge of the file is working on the 3rd repatriation operation but without giving more details. Last week, 235 Moroccan migrants returned home on two planes. Previously, 190 had also
The Sale anti-terror court has sentenced on Thursday, 14th of December, four individuals to between one and three years in prison over terror-related charges. The court also sentenced to one year in prison and fined two other defendants for praising terrorist attacks. Moreover, it has decided to postpone until January the 4th the examination of the case of eight people, including three women, prosecuted over terror links. These eight defendants are accused of «forming a gang as part of
The two young men who took part of the cell that carried the Catalonia attacks in August were secretly buried on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in their hometown, located in central Morocco. Younes Abouyaaqoub, along with his brother Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, were both shot dead in August, reports EFE news agency. The parents of the brothers asked that the bodies of their two children should be buried in Morocco and not in Spain. A request to which the Spanish judicial authorities
Consultations to replace the sacked ministers on October the 24th have been resumed. In theory, the ministerial reshuffle is expected to revive the Department of African Affairs, which has been removed for five decades. The ministry could be assigned to a technocrat.
After months of silence, the Polisario Front is again complaining about the Moroccan presence in the Guerguerate area. In a letter sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Brahim Ghali, urged the organization to change the situation in the buffer zone. However, the Polisario Front claimed in the past that it has scored a much-publicized victory regarding the same issue.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international NGO that promotes and defends freedom of information and press, released on Thursday, 14th of December, a communiqué calling for the release of Ali Anouzla, a journalist whose trial was postponed today. The organizarion also urged the Moroccan judicial authorities to «drop the serious terrorism charges» that are still pending since 2013. «The Moroccan judicial system's conspiracy against Ali Anouzla must
A bill criminalizing normalization with the Israeli entity has emerged again as the U.S President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. Moroccan MPs from different political parties called on Monday at the House of Representative the passing of the legislation frozen for four years.
King Mohammed VI’s visit to the Nigerian capital, Abuja, has been canceled. Scheduled to the 16th of December, the sovereign is not participating to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), reports Ilaf, a London-based online newspaper. Quoting a diplomatic source, the same source stressed that the king is going instead on a working trip to Guinea Conakry next Monday. The summit was scheduled to be held in the Togolese capital of Lomé in the same period, but the
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