The UK’s Home Office has refused to grant asylum to a Moroccan national who received death threats in Morocco for being gay, the Guardian reports on Thursday. The man who is HIV-positive has reportedly faced backlash and verbal abuse for his sexual orientation when he was living in Casabalanca. According to the same source, the 25-year-old Moroccan’s asylum application was refused because «claimed treatment does not amount to persecution», while his «appeal was
Enel Green Power SpA, an Italian multinational renewable-energy corporation, headquartered in Rome, is to acquire 48 % stake in the Moroccan firm, Masdar Energy while Marita Group, a Moroccan holding operating in the real estate, energy and education industries will control the remaining 52%, reports Trend Online. This operation, which includes an investment plan of 1.7 billion Euros by 2023, is expected to create 7,600 jobs. Masdar Energy has signed an agreement with
The Polisario Front is once again angry at one of the European Union vital institutions. In fact, the separatist movement believes that the adoption of the Euro-Mediterranean EU-Morocco agreement on air transport undermines the «international rights of the Sahrawi people».
Oussama Tannane, a Moroccan footballer who currently plays for La Liga club UD Las Palmas, will be unavailable for six weeks because of a right adductor injury, the club’s medical services said on Tuesday. The Moroccan player who was called up to the Morocco national football team for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches against Cape Verde was transferred on Tuesday morning to a hospital in Coruna, a city northwest Spain. Tannane was injured during a game on Sunday and
The administration of the local prison of Kenitra announced that an inmate died on Wednesday, 25th of October, at Al-Idrissi Hospital. The detainee identified as H.B. had been transferred to the hospital on October the 6th from the local prison Souk Larbaa, after suffering from anemia, said the administration, quoted in a statement of the General Delegation for Prison Administration and reintegration. The deceased prisoner was serving a 20-year prison sentence for deliberately setting fire to
The Office of the High Commissioner for Former Resistance Fighters (HCAR) reported the death of the prominent resistance leader Mohamed Ajar Said Bounailate, who died Tuesday night in Casablanca. Nationalist, militant and resistant, the deceased remained faithful to his principles and commitments, his religion, his homeland and his king, indicates the HCAR in a statement. Ajar was decorated by King Mohammed VI on the 49th anniversary of the Independence Day. Bounailate, born in 1920 in
The new airline route launched recently by Transavia, a low-cost airline, has irritated the Polisario Front. The separatist movement, as a result, has sued the Dutch company to protest against the new flight linking Paris to Dakhla. Details.
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), dismantled on Wednesday, 25th of October, a «dangerous» terrorist cell composed of 4 extremists who are linked to ISIS and operate in the city of Fez, announces the Ministry of the Interior. Initial investigations revealed that the cell were planning, under the influence of the propaganda publications of this terrorist organization, to carry out attacks in Fez, threatening the safety of people, said the ministry in a
Relations between King Hassan II and the Mossad services continue to make headlines in the Arab world. This time, it is «Assafir», Lebanon’s most famous newspaper that translated another article of Yedioth Ahronoth, which interviewed Meit Amir, the former director of the Mossad services in the 60s. The latter has given a detailed description of the Mossad’s involvement in the kidnapping and assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka.
The Moroccan Royal Judo Federation, in partnership with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, organized a seminar in Marrakesh preparing for the Judo World Championships Open 2017, which the city will host from November the 9th to the 12th. The competition will bring together more than 60 of the best judokas in the world, representing more than 40 countries in the world. «The organization of this great international competition by the Royal Moroccan Judo Federation illustrates the