Moroccan runner Othmane El Goumri set a new record in the Dublin marathon on Sunday. According to the Irish Examiner, the Moroccan athlete completed the marathon in two hours, eight minutes and four seconds. He crossed the finish line at Merrion Square, a few seconds before Stephen Scullion, in an edition that brought together more than 22,500 people. Born May 28, 1992, Othmane El Goumri has already represented Morocco at two outdoors world championships and one indoor. In 2013, he came first
Hirak activist Rabii Al Ablak was admitted to a prison clinic in Tangier after a seven-week hunger strike, his brother and lawyer, quoted by Reuters, said on Friday. Sentenced to five years in jail in June 2018 for «spreading fake news and reporting as a journalist without a permit» following the Rif Hirak, «he was admitted yesterday night to the prison's clinic after his health deteriorated», his brother Abdellatif said. «He couldn't even walk when the lawyer
Sentenced in first instance to 12 years in jail, the owner of Moroccan newspaper Akhbar Alyaoum, Taoufik Boucharine, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he appealed against the first ruling. Indeed, the Casablanca Court of Appeal has just increased the first sentence on Friday. In November 2018, the court of first instance found him guilty before the journalist decided to appeal the judgement. In early October 2019, the prosecution had required 20 years of imprisonment. Alyaoum24
Moroccan novelist Abdelkader Benali moved to the Netherlands in his early childhood to join his family. Books, reading and writing made him find a balance in his new motherland.
Throughout history, Moroccans raised different flags and emblems to distinguish themselves from other powers and nations. Red, however, was a favored color for several Moroccan dynasties.
Morocco will be home to the first North Africa fully operational sea observatory. The project is part of a European Union-funded project called ODYSSEA, which integrates networks of observing and forecasting systems across the Mediterranean basin, addressing both the open sea and the coastal zone. The new Morocco sea observatory will be in Al Hoceima National Park and is expected to be launched on October 29 during the third general assembly of the ODYSSEA Project. The second mission of the
The Mauritanian government plans to appoint a new ambassador to Rabat to replace Mohamed Ould Abbaye, who was appointed on September 18 as a chargé de mission for the country’s presidency. Nouakchott has reportedly proposed three candidates to Rabat. The list includes the name of the former Mauritanian Prime Minister, Yahya Ould Hademine, who held this position under the presidency of Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz from August 21, 2014 to October 30, 2018, the former Interior Minister
The fall of former US National Security Advisor has apparently had an impact on the draft resolution that Washington submitted to the UN Security Council on the Sahara. But to Rabat, it is too soon to claim victory as South Africa is not willing to sit idly by.
Seven people were arrested, Friday, by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) in anti-terror operation conducted in the suburbs of Casablanca, Chefchaouen and Ouazzane. According to state-owned channel 2M, two of these suspects were arrested in Chafchaouen, as part of an operation led earlier this morning at the Lalla Zahra neighborhood, while four others were arrested in Douar Benaabid and Douar Karia, in Dar Bouazza. According to the same source, two of the
In a video shared online and relayed by several newspapers, anti-normalization activists claimed that the Ait Faska Holocaust Memorial was not «entirely demolished» by the authorities. But to the man behind the project, the installations left in the property are just a replica of a movie’s imaginary monument.
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