Florida’s theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort has added new interactive experiences to the Morocco pavilion, wrote local newspaper Orlando Business Journal Friday. Disney has made sure to feature two of the country’s modern-day competitions to the Morocco pavilion’s Gallery of Arts and History attraction. According to the theme park giant, the Morocco section includes now a glimpse of the «Marathon des Sables» and the «Rally Aicha des Gazelles»,
According to the Global Wealth Report on household wealth, published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, only 0.1% of adults in Morocco hold more than one million dollars in wealth. At the African scale, 88.5% of adults have less than 10,000 dollars.
Moroccan footballer Abderrazak Hamdallah, who currently plays as a striker for Al-Nassr in the Saudi Professional League, has announced his retirement from international football. Hamdallah took to Instagram to announce his decision, while in New York on vacation. His decision puts an end to a controversial episode, which had started, ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations after a fight with international footballer Fayçal Fajr. Following this fight, Hamdallah left the Atlas Lions squad,
On Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation. The latter could be a source of concern for the Polisario, which might be losing one of its important allies in Latin America.
A 15-year-old girl in Ksar El Kebir was detained for several weeks before being released by her abuser after authorities in the town launched a search operation. Speaking to Yabiladi, Monday, Mohamed Taib Bouchiba from Touche pas a Mon Enfant association said that the suspect had kidnapped and raped the girl, who is currently pregnant. He also «tattooed his name on one of her hands and forced her to take drugs». The suspect released his alleged victim after her parents filed a
British Muslims say they fear «hate crime and anti-Muslim racism will go unchallenged» after Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to launch an Islamophobia inquiry, wrote Metro. In June, Boris Johnson promised to hold an inquiry into Islamophobia after Muslim leaders in the UK called for the opening of an independent investigation. However, last Friday, the Prime Minister declared that there would be no Islamophobia inquiry, but an investigation into «prejudices of all
The victory of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) at the Spanish general elections has been overshadowed by the rapid progress of Vox. Winning 53 seats in the lower house, the far-right party is seen as a threat to the Moroccan community in Spain.
Former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos will be awarded, Monday, in Morocco at the Nador Film and Common Memory Festival, wrote EFE, quoting the event’s organizers. The Colombian politician, who served as a president from 2010 to 2018, will be honored in Nador for his «contribution to peace and reconciliation». In Nador, Santos will deliver a speech during the opening ceremony of the festival’s eight edition. The festival will be focusing this year on
Morocco has officially become the first African country to use the Video Assistant Referee technology (VAR) in an African domestic match, BBC Sport wrote Saturday. According to the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), VAR made its debut in the local Cup semi-finals held Saturday, making of it the «first time in Africa that the VAR technology is going to be used in a local competition». The technology was used during the first semi-final between TAS Casablanca and
Almost five months after their arrest, the Polisario Front released, Sunday, the three Sahrawi activists Moulay Abba Bouzeid, Fadel NBreika and Mahmoud Zeidan. The three men «have been able to meet their families and loved ones», Messoud Ramadan, the president of the Sahrawi Human Rights Association, said. By releasing the three activists, held since June, the Polisario leadership is trying to make peace with angry voices within the Tindouf camps that condemned the arrest of the