In 2012, the Polisario’s former «Minister of Defense», Lamine Ould El Bouhali had declared to a Spanish daily newspaper that a huge number of young Sahrawis had joined terrorist groups in the Sahel. Five years later, the phenomenon has escalated in a worrying way that was displayed through the Front’s media platform. Details.
Taxi drivers in Marrakech will have a new mobile application for their customers named Chedli taxi (Take me a taxi), The Economist reports today. The new mobile application operates by geo-localizing the customers who can send voice messages to the driver informing them about their destination. The taxi driver then is supposed to accept or decline. «We have developed our own very complex algorithm to offer this unique voice control service adapted to Moroccans,» explains Ali
Ed Beverlry-Jones, a 43-year-old man who lives in Chepstow, a town in Monmouthshire, Wales, adjoining the border with Gloucestershire, England will ride his bike all the way down to Morocco following Swallows, a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica, reports South Wales Argus, a local online newspaper. Ed is planning to travel perusing the birds’ autumn journey to Africa passing through England, France, and Spain. «I watch and
Tanjazz, the annual international festival organized in Tangier is inviting this year, Noam Vazana, an Israeli artist who is a reserve soldier for the Israeli air force. Noam’s upcoming performance has created controversy among some Moroccans who see her participation at Tanjazz as a normalization of relations with the Israel.
Emergency humanitarian aid was sent to Bangladesh on Monday to support the country's efforts to cope with the massive influx of refugees from the Muslim minority of the Rohingyas from Myanmar, states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. «On the very high instructions of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, May God assist him, emergency humanitarian aid was forwarded today to the People's Republic of Bangladesh», the ministry said in a statement. «This
Moroccan authorities have arrested two people after a Kuwaiti national filed a complaint indicating that they are extorting money, the Arab Times reports quoting Al-Anba, an Arabic-language Kuwaiti daily newspaper. According to the plaintiff’s lawyer Ali Al-Kandari, the two Moroccan nationals are held in custody. «The Moroccan judiciary is interrogating the suspects and both men are expected to be referred for a trial», the same source stated. Al Kandari told the same source
The second edition of the Climate Chance World summit organized in partnership with the region of Souss-Massa has been inaugurated today, Monday 11 of September, in Agadir, Xenhua reports today. According to the same source, the summit is to «provide a unique opportunity to review the global climate action agenda set at the UN climate conferences and to assess the progress made by non-state actors across the world». The event is also a way of supporting innovation and new
DHL express Morocco, subsidiary of the German firm of DHL, has a new air fleet in the northern region known for its automotive and aeronautical industry, reports Challenge, an online newspaper. DHL express trades its boing 737, the world's best-selling aircraft for its European competitor Airbus, an A306 with a capacity of 60 Tons. The new airplane will support the growing demands of companies. Indeed, new contracts with the agriculture and fishing sector will be added to the ones
Al Baraka, a Bahraini bank group formed in 2002 in Manama will launch an Islamic Finance venture in Morocco expanding its operations in Africa, according to the bank’s chief executive, Reuters reports today. Morocco is finally being introduced to Islamic banking after the central bank in January «approved five applications» and «allowed three others to sell Islamic financial products», the same source indicates. «We feel that since the country is not
The Ministry of Interior and the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) announced, on Sunday (September 10th) in a statement, the new visa measures adopted to ensure access for Moroccan and Algerian nationals. «Citizens who so wish may apply for a visa upon their arrival in Qatar provided if they are in possession of a valid residence or visa issued by one of the member countries of the Council of Gulf Cooperation (...), the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia or New