The Federal Crimson, a ship chartered by Kiwi company Ravensdown, arrived, Sunday, at the port of Lyttelton in New Zealand, carrying 51 thousand tons of phosphate from Western Sahara. Upon its arrival, the Rail & Maritime Transport Union (RMTU), a trade union that represents transport workers at the port, handed a letter of protest to the ship's captain, wrote Scoop Business. «Last month the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) passed a resolution condemning Morocco’s illegal
A court in Bariano, a commune in Italy, sentenced, Friday, two Italians to life for killing two Moroccan nationals. According to local newspaper Eco di Bergamo, Manuele Ferrari and Gianluca Forlanelli are accused of shooting two young Moroccans, Nabil El Karfi, 25, and Abdenassar El Moursali, 23, to death. The tragedy took place in July 2017, in Bariano, near the Serio River, an area that would be frequented by dealers and drug users. The investigation conducted by the Italian authorities at
Empathy and solidarity have always been qualities that led Khadija Qirtasse to help fellow Moroccan students who choose Germany to further their studies. This commitment has motivated this engineer to share her own experience regarding German education in Morocco.
King Mohammed VI has reportedly vetoed Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Morocco. According to Israel’s Channel 12, the Israeli Prime Minister had hoped to accompany US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his visit to Morocco, Thursday, but King Mohammed VI refused the idea, The Times of Israel wrote on Friday. On Wednesday, December 4, Netanyahu flew to Portugal, where he met Pompeo. On the same day, Israeli media reported that Israeli officials are hoping for a breakthrough in ties
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The Western Sahara question was one of the topics discussed, Thursday, by US State Secretary Mike Pompeo and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita in Rabat. «The US State Secretary has stressed the need for a realistic and sustainable political solution» to the conflict, a diplomatic source told Yabiladi. «At no point did Pompeo talk with Bourita about self-determination or the referendum», the same source said. Indeed, on Thursday, the US Department of State issued
Pro-Polisario NGO Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has slammed the municipality of Mogan, located in the southern tip of Gran Canary Island, for purchasing sand from Western Sahara. «The maintenance work on the Mogán beach began on December 2, 2019. (…) Controversially, the municipality had ordered tons of sand from Western Sahara to renovate the tourist spot», wrote the NGO on Wednesday. WRSW, which claims having documented the arrival of the first trucks
Normalization with Israel was not among the topics discussed, Thursday, in Morocco by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a US senior official said. His comments came respond to presistent reports suggesting that Israel is «close to establishing official ties with Rabat».
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally apologized for calling Muslim women in veils «letterboxes». Invited earlier this week to ITV’s «This Morning», a British television program, Johnson said he «apologized for any offence caused» by the article in which, he said that Muslim women wearing a face-covering veil look like «bank robbers» and «letterboxes». «People dig out all sorts of articles … I’ve
Morocco’s ambassador to South Africa, Botswana, Malawi and Eswatini Youssef Amrani handed, Thursday in Gaborone, credentials to Botswana’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi as the Kingdom’s extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the this country. During a ceremony presided by the President of Botswana, Youssef Amrani conveyed the warmest greetings of King Mohammed VI to the people of Botswana, wrote MAP news agency. Expressing his willingness to contribute actively,