The Moroccan authorities thwarted an attempt by 20 people to swim to Ceuta on Monday morning. However, five young people managed to bypass the breakwaters in the border area of Ceuta, while the others were arrested by the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie. Police sources told EFE that the attempt happened at 9 a.m., when a large group of people gathered near the coast of Fnideq. Young people wore wetsuits, diving fins and in some cases only swimsuits to jump into the sea. The intervention
Four years after Morocco’s support to Spain over Catalonia, the Sanchez government welcomed Brahim Ghali on the sly without notifying Rabat.
The reaction of Morocco to the hospitalization of Polisario leader Brahim Ghali in Spain was not well received by the Polisario. On Sunday, the movement’s «Ministry of Foreign Affairs» published a press release in which it accuses Morocco of «celebrating» the hospitalization of Brahim Ghali and «taking advantage» of it to «offend the Saharawi people and their national symbols, even during purely humanitarian matters». In its press
The Algerian Minister of Communication Ammar Belhimer, also spokesperson for the government, is blaming the failure of the Maghreb Arab Union project on Morocco. «Morocco's stubbornness to condition the building of the Arab Maghreb Union on Algeria’s support for decolonization in Western Sahara is what led to this impasse», he claimed. For the record, King Mohammed VI invited, in his speech of November 6, 2018, the Algerian authorities to create a «joint mechanism for
102 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 509,465. 4,731,440 people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine so far, while 4,219,876 people have received the second. 146 new recoveries were recorded during the same period, bringing the total number of recoveries to 495,408. 7 deaths were recorded in Morocco in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19-related deaths
The European Union wants to impose new measures on Morocco regarding irregular migration, such as the return of migrants from third countries, in exchange for more financial aid and visa facilities for Moroccans, according to a confidential EU document, discussed last week.
The local authorities of Melilla, in collaboration with their Moroccan counterparts, succeeded Sunday in aborting an attempt led by some sixty migrants to cross the barrier separating Morocco from Melilla. According to Europa Press, a spokesperson for the government delegation in Melilla explained that the city authorities activated the anti-intrusion protocol after the Civil Guard learned that a group of about 60 migrants is approaching the border area. The alert enabled
The Ministry of Health announced on Monday its decision to extend, from Tuesday April 27, 2021, the vaccination operation against Covid-19 to citizens aged between 55 and 60 years. In a press release, the ministry urged «all citizens from this age group to continue participating in this major national workshop, with the aim of achieving collective immunity». In this sense, the ministry invites them to send an SMS to 1717 or to go to the online portal www.liqahcorona.ma to
Moroccan-born fashion designer Alber Elbaz has died in Paris aged 59, luxury group Richemont announced on Sunday. The causes of his death have not been revealed. But according to French media, Alber Elbaz would have died of Covid-19. Born June 12, 1961 in Casablanca, Alber Elbaz began his career with American designer Geoffrey Beene in New York before being hired by Guy Laroche to refresh the image of the French house founded in 1957. He then took on the artistic direction for three
The police arrested, Friday, a Moroccan who has been living in Castellón (Spain) since 2002 on suspicion of murdering six members of his family in February in Morocco, where he has been wanted since the discovery of the lifeless bodies in Salé. The first elements of the investigation indicate the man would have stabbed to death his brother, his sister-in-law, their children and two minor grandchildren while they were sleeping, before setting fire to the
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