Throughout the years, several people pretended to be part of the Moroccan royal family. While Bou Hmara pretended to be the eldest son of sultan Hassan I, Serge-Michel Bena, Hicham Mandari and an Israeli woman claimed to be «connected» to the late king Hassan II.
British upstream gas company Sound Energy PLC has signed a preliminary deal on the sale of its gas production from Morocco’s Tendrara concession with the country’s Office National de L’Electricité et de L’Eau Potable (ONEE). Sound Energy and ONEE signed, Tuesday, a memorandum of understanding (MoU), the state power company said in a communiqué sent to Yabiladi. It also reported that negotiations are underway on gas sales agreements. The latter is seen as a
WhatsApp has launched a lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO, accusing it of targeting dozens of human rights activists and defenders in several countries. The lawsuit comes after Amnesty International revealed in October that two Moroccan activists were allegedly by the Israeli-developed software.
Corendon Airlines Europe announced on Wednesday (October 30th) that it will launch two new direct flights, including one that is linking Leipzig in eastern Germany to Agadir in Morocco for the winter. A statement from the low-cost airline, quoted by German online news platform Check24, states that starting from November, the route linking Agadir in Morocco and Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to Leipzig will be scheduled once a week and operated by a Boeing 737-800. The first flight from Morocco, will
Arrested two weeks ago for praying on the streets of Belgium, a Muslim man died, Tuesday, after suffering sudden cardiac arrest, Sud Info and La Meuse reported. «On October 19, an individual was arrested by the Liege police when he was praying in the middle of the Chaussée des Prés street in the Outremeuse district», wrote RTL Info on Wednesday. The man in question was taken to the police station and he was then admitted to the St. Joseph’s Clinic for
The Jewish cemetery of Errachidia is home to three Jewish saints, namely Rabbi Yahia Lahlou, Rabbi Moul Tria and Rabbi Moul Sedra. Each one of them has a story to tell.
In London, the first ballet school for Muslim kids has opened earlier this year, welcoming Muslim girls who dream of becoming ballerinas. The school is the first of its kind, according to Metro, as it «offers a unique poetry syllabus instead of music to be more inclusive as some followers of the Islamic faith don’t listen to music». Opened by British dancer Maisie Alexandra Byers and Sajedah Shubib, Grace and Poise Academy was created to tackle the fact that the
Spanish police arrested three Moroccan women who were trying to smuggle a newborn into Almeria through the port of Melilla. According to El Espanol, one of the three women said that she was the mother of the baby, but without providing documents proving her claims. Quoting the Spanish police, the newspaper explains that the documents she presented belonged to a three-year-old child that was not accompanying her at the moment of her arrest. The two other women told police that the
A recent study has revealed that all modern humans originated from Botswana. The findings come as Morocco was referred to as the cradle of humanity in 2017, being home to the oldest Homo sapiens fossils.
Former UN envoy to Western Sahara Christopher Ross is on a three-day visit to the Tindouf camps. Ross is part of a delegation from the New Jersey’s Princeton University that would stay in the camps until 30 October. «Officially, the mission is expected to report on the living conditions of Saharawis in the camps», a well-informed source told Yabiladi. «Students from the same university will, meanwhile, be visiting Laayoune for the same purpose (…) Ross decided to