Moroccan athletes participating in the 21st edition of the African Senior Athletics Championships (ASAC) have won medals in different sport disciplines during the competition. On the ladies’ side, Soukaina Zakour and Lamia Lhabz both won medals at the championship that was held from August 1stto the 5thin Asaba (Nigeria) last Friday and Saturday. Zakour won the gold medal in hammer throw with a 68.28m throw from the first try. As for Lhabz, the athlete won a silver medal for finishing
Moroccan male steeplechase runner Sofiane El Bakkali won, Friday, a silver medal at the Senior Athletic Championships, held in Asaba, Nigeria. El Bakkali finished the 3.000-race in 8:28.01, ranked behind World champion Conseslus Kipruto from Kenya and Ethiopian runner Getnet Baybal. On the same day, Soukaina Zakour won a gold medal. Morocco's Rabbi Arafi and Malika Akkaoui won silver and bronze medals respectively, while Smaili Mostafa ended his race, wining a bronze medal behind Botswana's
23 athletes from Moroccan delegation participating to the African Championships in Athletics in the city of Asaba (Nigeria), went through a real ordeal, reported yesterday the Atlas Lions media, quoting Le Matin. The Moroccan athletes waited 55 hours after their arrival at the Murtala-Muhammed International Airport in Lagos last Saturday, before taking a flight to the city of Asaba (400 kilometers west of Lagos), according to the same source. As the African Senior Championships
Pending the presidential election in Nigeria (February 2019), the question about Morocco's accession to ECOWAS has become the hobby horse of some opponents of the second term of Buhari. This is the case of the lawyer Femi Falan.
Togo has given up on hosting the ECOWAS summit scheduled for the 16th of December. The political tensions that have shaken the country for the last couple of months have certainly pushed President Faure Gnassingbé towards this decision. Instead, the meeting will be held in Abuja, the political and administrative capital of Nigeria, where several officials have opposed Morocco’s bid to join the regional organization.
In Nigeria, Morocco’s opponents continue campaigning against its admission to ECOWAS. Nevertheless, the kingdom now has the support of one of the most influential figures in the country : the Emir of Kano, a follower of the Tariqa Tijania and a former governor of the Nigerian Central Bank.
Morocco’s admission to ECOWAS is still making headlines in Nigeria. MPs at the Nigerian House of Representatives have raised their concerns regarding the Kingdom’s bid to be part of the regional organization. On the other hand, on Wednesday, a Moroccan-Nigerian Parliamentary Friendship Group held its inaugural meeting in Abuja to discuss mutual agreements and economic projects between the two nations. Details.
The Moroccan-Nigerian Parliamentary Friendship Group, which was set up by the Nigerian Senate and the House of Councilors of Morocco, held its inaugural meeting on Wednesday (October 4th) in Abuja, the group said in a statement. The meeting was held under the joint chairmanship of the Deputy Speaker of the Senate and chairman of the group on the Nigerian side, and Abdelilah Hifdi, chairman of the group on the Moroccan side, and was attended by Nigeria's Senate Speaker Bubakar Bukola Saraki,
Morocco and Nigeria are consolidating their partnership and security is an official addition to agricultural cooperation. A decree on the appointment of a military attaché at the embassy of the kingdom in Abuja was approved at the meeting of the government council on 2 October. A decision that goes hand in hand with King Mohammed VI’s order issued on the 17th of September on the creation of this position. Since 2009, Nigeria has faced repeated attacks by the terrorist
During a panel discussion held on Thursday to discuss the consequences of Morocco’s bid to join the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS), Zangfu Abdu, a Nigerian retired diplomat claimed that the Kingdom's membership is a threat to the organization. «Nigeria is the biggest military power in West Africa; it has the biggest economy in the region and the panel that discussed security discussed how Boko Haram affected Nigeria, Chad, Cameron and Niger. One of the issues