The trial of a Moroccan national believed to be Abdehamid Abaaoud’s alleged informant (the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks in 2015), was opened Tuesday in Katowice, Poland, said the PAP news agency, relayed by Paris Match. The accused is identified as M. T., a 28-year-old Moroccan man who has been detained in Poland since 2016. The latter is tried for «belonging to a terrorist organization» from December 2014 to September 2016. He faces an eight-year
A woman working for the Belgian embassy in Morocco was stabbed 13 times by her ex-husband in Rabat, reports the Dutch-language Belgian daily newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws on Tuesday. Nicknamed Melanie, the victim who died surrendering to her wounds worked as the assistant to a Belgian magistrate at the embassy. Mother of an 8-year-old boy, from her first marriage, she had remarried another man of Moroccan origin who had lived in Denmark, before divorcing last year. The tragedy occurred
This year, the Trump administration will not draft the resolution on Western Sahara. This decision comes as the United Kingdom, France and Spain are trying to fill the gap. A few weeks before presenting its report before the Security Council, London is trying to impose its will. Nevertheless, Paris and Madrid have other projects. The two countries are allegedly preparing a joint text that they should submit to members of the «Western Sahara Friends» club, which brings together the
Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit reaffirmed on Monday the government’s firm commitment to support Jerada province’s development program and to redouble its efforts to honor its commitments, reports MAP news agency. Speaking at a meeting of the Committee of the Interior, local authorities Housing and City Policy at the House of Representatives, Laftit stressed the government’s will to provide answers to the concerns of the country(s representatives concerning the situation
«FAR fighter jets are conducting reconnaissance flights throughout the region to detect new incursions by the Polisario armed elements in the buffer zones, similar to those recorded on March the 29th and April the 1st,» a source close to the file told Yabiladi. Air force planes also have the task of locating possible movements of the civilian population of Tindouf camps, including those of nomads and shepherds, towards certain areas located near the security wall. With the
FRMF president Fouzi Lekjaa protests in a letter sent to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, against the undisclosed changes added to the eligibility criteria hours before the deadline for bid books to be handed over last month.
Morocco is currently conducting a diplomatic offensive, responding to the Polisario’s violation of the 1991 ceasefire. This is not the first time that the Kingdom denounces such provocations.
The Kingdom of Morocco, whose Sovereign chairs the Al Quds Committee, strongly condemns Friday's shooting by Israeli occupying forces against unarmed Palestinians who participated in peaceful protests on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day, said the ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The Kingdom denounces the use of excessive force by the Israeli occupying forces in defiance of the peaceful nature of the demonstrations and stresses that the situation in
Morocco will not allow any change in the legal and historical status of the Guerguarat buffer zone, which is an integral part of the national territory, said, Sunday in Rabat minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita. The UN's reaction to polisario provocations in the Guerguarat region was not strong enough to deter the separatists, Bourita told the press after the joint meeting of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Islamic Affairs and Moroccans
Once again, the Polisario is sending its armed elements to the buffer zone. The separatist movement is now present in four buffer zones, namely Mahbes, Tifarity, Gueguerate and Bir Lahlou, breaking the arrangement set up in 1976 under the auspices of the United Nations.