The Shacklewell Lane Mosque in Hackney, East London, accepts cryptocurrency to raise at least £ 10,000 for urgent refurbishment works, says TRTworld quoting the mosque leaders. «For a donor that already has a bitcoin or an ethereum account, the effort of converting cryptocurrency into say British pounds or dollars can be quite burdensome. The mosque effectively takes the burden on themselves», said blockchain consultant Lukasz Musial, who helped the mosque set up the
North American and Moroccan candidates, bidding to host the 2026 World Cup, will attend a meeting Wednesday, 30 May, in Zurich with FIFA’s bid inspectors, reports ESPN quoting Associated Press. Officials from the joint United States-Canada-Mexico team and Morocco will be answering questions from a «FIFA-appointed panel evaluating their bids ahead of the June 13 vote», said FIFA Monday. FIFA’s evaluation reports will be published ahead of the vote scheduled
Almost two months after a boycott campaign was launched on social media in the Kingdom, a member of the National Rally of Independents urged Aziz Akhannouch to give up on the party’s presidency.
Minister of Energy, Mining and Sustainable Development, Aziz Rabbah, stressed, Monday in Rabat, the need to strengthen interconnectivity with Spain to benefit from electricity under better conditions and secure the supply of electricity in the national market. At the end of his talks with Spanish minister for Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, Alvaro Nadal Belda, Rabbah told the press, that «fruitful» energy cooperation between Morocco and Spain is part of a vision of regional
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is offering 5,000-dirham round trip flights for St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kaliningrad, the cities where the Atlas Lions will play during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, says the Moroccan national carrier in a communiqué sent Monday to Yabiladi. The flights will link Casablanca, Tangier, Oujda and Marrakech to the three above-mentioned Russian cities. The initiative is a partnership bringing together the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation
On Monday morning, May 28, an employee at the Moroccan Consulate in Düsseldorf, Germany, received a letter that contained suspicious powder. The latter gave the employee an unpleasant-looking rash, reports German online newspaper Westdeutsche Zeitung. According to the same source, the police went to the consulate to «determine the nature of the powder». Moreover, WDR rejects the hypothesis, suggesting that the powder was poisonous, indicating that
In 1979, Masjid al-Haram was seized by a group of 500 men under the leadership of Juhayman al-Otaybi, protesting against the Saudi monarchy. Islam’s holiest site was under siege for two weeks before Saudi Special Forces broke into the Mosque with the help of France and Pakistan.
Journalist Souad Mekhennet, a German national of Moroccan origin, received on Sunday in Frankfurt the 2018 Ludwig Börne Prize, one of the most esteemed literary prizes across German-speaking countries. The Washington Post National Security Reporter becomes the first Arab and Muslim journalist to win the award. Mekhennet won in 2017 the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in journalism. The Ludwig Börne Foundation honors outstanding achievements in essay, criticism and
The disappearance of a high ranking Polisario military official, operating in Tifariti and responsible for the gathering of international aids, has fueled speculations.
Head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, phoned the head of the Moroccan government, Saadeddine El Othmani, Sunday, and urged him to provide medical assistance for Palestinians injured by the Israeli forces. On the same day, Morocco announced that it is setting up a field hospital in Gaza.