OCP, a state-owned company that exports phosphate rock, phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers, denounced on Starurday the verdict pronounced by the Port Elizabeth court regarding a phospohate cargo detained in South Africa since May 2017. Through its Twitter account, OCP declared that «predictably, the local court in Port Elizabeth, running short of arguments, rendered an unsubstained and unreasoned default summary judgement in the Cherry Blossom case». In a different tweet
For the French-Moroccan Levallois-Perret-native, skiing is first and fore most a childhood dream. The 40-year-old athlete now is proud of what he managed to achieve.
The first instance court of Salé in charge of terrorism cases sentenced on Thursday 10 persons, standing trial for terrorism charges, to prison terms ranging between 4 and 12 years. The court sentenced the main accused, who had already served a custodial sentence for terrorism-related offences, to 12 years in prison, and handed down sentences of 10 years for another suspect, 8 years for a third one, 6 years for three persons, 5 years for two defendants and 4 years in prison for four
The royal gendarmerie in the northern city of Tetouan arrested, Friday in the province of Chefchaouen, two individuals on board a car carrying 46 packages of chira, with a total weight of one ton 340 kg, said local authorities. According to the same source, the two traffickers were brought to justice and the investigation is underway to identify possible accomplices.
Amnesty International issued a report focusing on the state of human rights in 159 countries, including Morocco. Responding to the survey the Moroccan authorities denied the objectivity of the NGO's applied methodology.
Morocco «will keep making efforts to ensure» the extradition of Said Chaou, a Moroccan national living in the Netherlands who is accused of drug trafficking, said Friday the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Aujjar. Speaking to MAP news agency, Aujjar pointed out that the Morocco have taken note of the step taken by the Dutch authorities. They have decided to appeal against the court’s decision regarding the extradition of Said Chaou, who is subjected to two international arrest
On November the 4th 1999, the 1995 fisheries agreement signed by Morocco and the European Union expired. Prime Minister, Abderrahman El Youssoufi, took his time to renew the agreement, allowing Morocco to preserve its natural resources, reducing licenses by more than 75%, and developing the fisheries sector.
Nexteer Automotive, a Michigan-based automotive parts supplier, is building a new production facility in Kenitra. The Morocco plant will be used to manufacture Single Pinion-assist Electric Power Steering (SPEPS) systems with the objective of extending production to driveline products, reports Automobilwoche. The 18,000 m2 plant will be inaugurated in March, as the first Africa facility of the American company while production is expected to start in 2019. The construction of Nexteer’s
The number of reported cases of corruption has risen from 7,000 to 13,000 annually since the launch in 2015 of the anti-corruption toll-free number by the ministry of Justice and Liberties, said, Thursday in Rabat, minister delegate for Relations with the Parliament and Civil Society, Government spokesman, Mustapha El Khalfi. Since the launch of the toll-free number, several people have been sentenced to prison terms in 31 corruption cases, El Khalfi said, answering a question on the
Prime Minister, Saad Eddine El Othmani, said Thursday that dozens of public officials are prosecuted for corruption, and that their cases are processed by the courts that «will have to pronounce their verdicts». Speaking at the government council, El Othmani stated that several other officials are currently being investigated for curroption allegations while others are being tried. «We do not have the right to denounce a person arrested for corruption, as he or she can be