Thousands of Moroccans have taken the streets yesterday in Rabat to manifest against corruption and support recent protests in the Rif region that have been ongoing for more than seven months. Speaking numbers, MAP news agency reported that 12 000 to 15 000 people participated to the march while Al Adl Wal Ihsane movement has indicated that the number of protesters has reached 1 million.
The manifestation organized yesterday, Sunday 11th of June, in Rabat to support the «Hirak» has allowed Al Adl wal Ihssane movement to show its mobilizing force.
The former Salafist El Mortada Imrachen is added to the list of detainees of the «Hirak». The young activist was arrested on Saturday by the police. A few hours before being arrested, he declared on Lakom2 website that he «does not want the king to interfere or anyone else ... I want the street to intervene with all its strength and I want the silent majority to take the streets and fight back injustice and to decide the outcome of The war of the free and the release of all
Three Syrian refugees were intercepted by the police in Nador and sent back using force to the buffer zone in Figuig, Amnesty international reports. The incident was confirmed to Yabiladi by a source. #Urgent: 3 réfugiés syriens interceptés par la police Marocaine à Nador et renvoyés par force vers la zone de frontière de Figuig. #Maroc pic.twitter.com/H1iuqA7IiM — Amnesty North Africa (@AINorthAfrica) June 8, 2017 «A 15-year-old girl,
Two men were arrested on the 5th of June after having had homosexual intercourse during Ramadan. The incident took place at Kariat Akermane in the Oriental region of the country, said the Spanish news agency EFE. The arrest of the two young men by the Royal Gendarmerie was reported by Akaliyat Association. According to the local media, the detainees were aged 16 and 19 and were caught in the middle of a sexual act by the mother of the youngest one in an abandoned house next to the beach. The
Sweden has accelerated the process of deporting Moroccan teenagers in an irregular situation, AFP news agency reports on Friday. These expulsions intervened following the application of an agreement «which requires Rabat to accept their return», writes the same source. Sweden reports that about 800 young people, even very young North Africans, mostly Moroccans live without having a regularized status in large cities such as Stockholm and Gothenburg. Regeringens arbete ger
A delegation of Chinese senior officials is in Morocco since the 6th of June to discover the country as a destination for tourists, reports on Thursday the Moroccan National office of Tourism (ONMT) in a communiqué. The group includes around fifty Chinese decision-makers who work for travel agencies, and media in the region of Pekin, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Their trip will last till the 16th of June 2017. The delegation will have the chance to discover during this visit tourism assets
The Algerian authorities announced on Wednesday the 7th of June that they would «temporarily» cancel their plans of hosting the Syrian refugees stranded in the borders separating the two neighboring countries, le Monde reports. «The High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has not been able to reach a solution», spokesman of the Algerian Foreign Ministry Abdelaziz Benali Cherif said. The same person who announced Thursday 1st of June that Algeria will host a group of
A Panama court has rejected a claim issued by the Polisario Front to block a Danish vessel that was carrying OCP phosphate rocks stating that the there was no evidence the cargo belonged to the group, the Moroccan company said on Thursday 8th of June in a statement. On the 17th of May, the Danish vessel Ultra Innovation that was carrying a phosphate cargo to Canada «has been detained by a national court» in Panama. The Separatist Front has filed a claim to hold the ship which was
Since Wednesday, Morocco has been at the core of all top stories because of a new discovery that could change the way scientists look at the history of humanity. Professor Abdelouahed Bennacer and Jean-Jacques Hublin alongside a specialized team unearthed a fossil of Homo Sapiens in Jbel Irhoud, a discovery that stands as a new era for science.