Morocco is looking forward to limit the services of Airbnb and Booking.com, online marketplace and hospitality platforms, in an attempt to «level the playing field» for traditional hotels, said Bloomberg on Tuesday. Moroccan officials will apply taxes and regulations on online portal Airbnb, starting form 2019, making up for the damages more than 3,800 hotels and hundreds of travel agencies have been suffering from lately, said Mehdi Taleb, head of regulation, development and
A few days before the UN Security Council adopts a new resolution on the Western Sahara, Morocco has managed to convince EU fisheries ministers to give the go-ahead for a new agreement. The latter will include the Sahara’s territorial waters.
80 sub-Saharan illegal migrants were arrested Sunday, 15th of April, by the Moroccan authorities in Nador while they were trying to enter Spain, reports EFE. The migrants’ attempt to reach Spain was foiled, according to the same source, after the authorities conducted two separate operations in two beaches near the city of Nador. 25 illegal migrants were arrested off the Moroccan coast en route to Spain during the first operation while 55 others, including women and
Unlike expectations, South Africa has announced that it is backing Morocco’s bid to host the 2026 World Cup. The country believes that its support would make all the difference on the continent.
A task force sent by FIFA has arrived Monday in Morocco to evaluate the country’s ability to host the 2026 World Cup, said Morocco’s bid committee in a statement sent to Yabiladi. «Today, the committee is set to receive 5 members from the Task Force as well as others from the FIFA administration for a three-day-visit», said the same communiqué. The FIFA delegation is expected to travel from the 17th to the 19th of April to several cities in the
The Mercer firm has just published the 20th edition of its Quality of Living ranking for cities. Like last year, two Moroccan cities, namely Casablanca and Rabat were featured in the ranking.
While Morocco insisted on denouncing the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar’s forces, the Kingdom took its distances regarding the air strikes launched by the United States and joined by its French and British allies.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Nasser Bourita announced, Sunday, that the 29th Arab Summit, held in the Saudi city of Dhahran, unanimously affirmed its support for Morocco’s bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Bourita told the press after the Summit that the latter «unanimously affirmed its support for Morocco’s bid to host the 2016 FIFA World Cup and called on all States to provide full and unwavering support to this bid.» The 29th Arab
Arrested last year in Morocco, a British national accused of defrauding investors in a bitcoin-related venture was extradited to the United States. The alleged bitcoin fraudster was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the American authorities.
In one month, Naelle Song, a YouTuber who has recently started her channel on the video platform, has succeeded to attract many netizens. The 24-year-old South Korean mixes French and Darija to tell her story about her life in Morocco. Naelle started posting videos last month. She has amassed more than 225,000 views. Three of these videos are dedicated to Morocco and accumulate an average of 40,000 views each. Her most watched video is titled "Three Moroccan items I use every