Unlike what has been announced this week, trade unions coordination in Jerada, joined by the Unified Socialist Party’s regional office have not accepted the government’s proposals. On the contrary, they have taken note of the evolution of negotiations with the civil society in the city.
On Monday, the EU Council of Ministers for Agriculture and Fisheries has authorized the European Commission to relaunch negotiations with Morocco with the objective of renewing the 2014 fisheries agreement, which will expire on the 14th of July. Yesterday’s decision comes at a time when the European Court of Justice is expected to pronounce its decision on the 27th of February. Its ruling can either stop the famous agreement or renew it. For the record, Advocate General Melchior
In a statement published Monday on its official website, Amnesty International, a British-based ONG focused on human rights, denounced the ruling pronounced against Abdessadek El Bouchtaoui, a lawyer and member of the Hirak detainees defense committee in Casablanca. The latter was sentenced on Thursday, 8th of February, to 20 months in prison by the Al Hoceima court of first instance and fined MAD 500 by the same courthouse. El Bouchtaoui is accused of «insulting officials and
The Sahrawi Youth Union of the Polisario was elected for the fourth time in a row deputy president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. On the other hand, USFP returned home empty-handed.
Uber Morocco, affiliated to Uber Technologies Inc. a peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations in 633 cities worldwide, announced on Monday, 19th of February, that it is suspending its activities in Morocco, said a communiqué sent to Yabiladi. The company said that it first started working in Morocco three years ago and it has tried to find suitable solutions to work with the authorities. But,
Filmmakers Hicham Lasri and Narjiss Nejjar are representing Morocco at the 68th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, held in the German capital from February the 15th to the 25th, reports MAP news agency. Hicham Lasri’s latest movie, Al Jahilya, questions slavery through six characters. The film sheds light on the evils of the Moroccan society, and which are most of the time generated from injustice (Hogra) and tradition. It also urges to question the way our society is
It is more than a mere coincidence, on the day a bunch of Spanish ship-owners met to defend, in Dakhla, the renewal of the fisheries agreement, European farmers gathered in Spain to launch a campaign against the Moroccan tomatoes.
Following the deadly accident that killed six people and injured 14 others, on Saturday morning at a railway crossing near the Bni Makada district, King Mohammed VI gave his instructions to create a joint committee bringing together the Interior Ministry’s General Inspectorate and the Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water. The latter is expected to launch a enquiry to determine the circumstances of the incident and reveal all the parts involved in the tragic crash,
Six people were killed and 14 others were injured in an accident, on Saturday morning at a railway crossing near the Bni Makada district, between a freight train linking the city of Tangier to the Tangier Med port and a staff transport vehicle, according to local authorities in the Wilaya of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region. The wounded were transported to the hospital of Tangier, added the same source. An investigation is opened by the police under the supervision of the competent
French-Moroccan sAlpin kier Samir Azzimani was ranked111th out of 119 athletes in the men's 15km cross-country ski race at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The race took place on Friday, February 16th at the Alpensia Biathlon and Cross Country Center. «I'm 13:50 away from the Olympic champion (Switzerland Dario Cologna, ed). I pulled a fist aside after the first lap that I had to manage for five kilometers, which made me slow down otherwise I would not have