Moroccan company specializing in sugar extraction Cosumar concluded, on Thursday December 28, 2023, the sale of all its shares in the company Durrah Advanced Development Company (‘Durrah’). Cosumar used to own 43.275% of the share capital and voting rights of Durrah. The stake was bought by Wilmar Sugar PTE LTD for nearly $65 million. The stake had been initially purchased by Cosumar for the equivalent of $45 million, reads a press release. Beyond its economic importance, the
Moroccan police arrested, Thursday in Agadir, a man known to them for drug trafficking, after he stabbed three tourists. The man was arrested after he attacked the three tourists with a knife on a beach in the coastal city of Agadir. His attempt to escape by swimming was foiled by a Royal Gendarmerie maritime patrol. The victims of the incident are a British couple and a Belgian-Moroccan national, according to police sources. Two of the slightly injured tourists have been released from
After the reaction of its representation in Algiers, the general secretariat of the Polisario took over to officially denounce the countries joining the initiative launched by King Mohammed VI, to enable access to the Atlantic ocean for Sahel States. The separatist movement accuses them of «having sold themselves to Morocco», stressing that «Rabat’s policy always consists in buying people and selling illusions to escape its isolation». The Polisario
In an interview with Al Jazeera's Atheer platform, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf claimed that his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, refused to take his phone calls following the Al Haouz earthquake, when he wanted to expresses his condolences and offer his country's help. «This proves that political good will was non-existent on the side of the Moroccan authorities», he said. Ahmed Attaf stressed that the kingdom had rejected the aid offered by Algeria following this
Many parliamentarians are either behind bars or under judicial prosecution since the last general elections. The list includes more than 20 MPs, most of them are from the National Rally of Independents, followed by the Constitutional Union Party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party, then the Socialist Union and the Popular Movement.
A Moroccan family has been forced to leave their house in Urk, a town in the central Netherlands, after facing harassment and attacks triggered by a false accusation against their teenage son. According to regional newspaper Omroep Flevoland, the family consisting of a grandmother, parents and three minor children left their home for more than a month and a half after their minor son was wrongly blamed for burning Israeli flags. The teenager became the target of online abuse that
Canadian police have pressed charges against a call center employee, arrested in Morocco on November 27 for cyber extortion and fake bomb threats, after targeting several facilities in Canada. The Casablanca man is charged by the Ontario Provincial police (OPP) with «two counts of uttering threats, two counts of mischief and two counts of extortion», CBC reported on Wednesday, quoting an OPP press release. Arrested following an investigation conducted by Morocco’s National
The names of the Moroccan national football team players summoned to participate to the upcoming TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations were finally unveiled. The final list, published Thursday by the Atlas Lions’ official X account, includes 27 players, namely goalkeepers Yaassine Bounou, Munir El Kajoui, and El Mehdi Benabid. The squad also comprises of defenders Ghanem Saiss, Naif Aguerd, Chadi Riad, Abdelkabir Abqar, Yunis Abdelhamid, Achraf Hakimi, Mohamed Chibi, Noussair
«Pedro Sanchez has renounced» his support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. This is the astonishing version given by the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs to justify the resumption of his country's relations with Spain.
A Casablanca appeal court sentenced, Wednesday, former National Rally of Independents MP Mohamed El Hidaoui to 8 months in prison for embezzlement over tickets destined for the country's fans in last year's FIFA World Cup in Qatar. El Hidaoui, who also heads the Olympic Safi football club, has seen his sentence reduced after a first instance court sentenced him earlier this year to 18 months in jail and a 2,000 dh-fine. Radio Mars sports journalist Adil El Omari, co-accused in the same case,
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