Former Moroccan hurdler Nawal El Moutawakel was reelected, Wednesday, as a member of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council, reports MAP news agency. El Moutawakil’s election was announced as Britain’s Sebastian was unanimously re-elected as president of IAAF. In addition to the former Moroccan athlete, IAAF’s Council includes other names, namely Hiroshi Yokokawa, Antti Pihlakoski, Anna Riccardi, Nan Wang, Adille Sumariwalla, Abby Hoffman,
Moroccan hotels have been left with 200 million dirhams of unpaid bills after the collapse of British holiday firm Thomas Cook, the head of Morocco’s tourism federation told Reuters on Wednesday. «The loss of some 100,000 tourists ferried by Thomas Cook will take a toll on Morocco’s tourism sector», Abdellatif Kabbaj said. «There is no insurance for this sort of risk and there should be one to cover Moroccan professionals from such a loss», he argued,
Land border between Algeria and Morocco was opened for one day, Wednesday, to repatriate the bodies of three Moroccan migrants who recently died near the Algerian coast, when trying to reach Spain, Le360 reports, quoting well-informed sources. According to the same source, the bodies of the three nationals were transported to the Moroccan-Algerian border post, Zouj Bghal, after the Algerian authorities gave their permission to proceed. For the record, land border between Morocco and Algeria
Colonel William Eddy was an Arabic-speaking missionary, who studied the Quran and knew much about the Muslim world. During World War II, he was recruited by the United States to lead covert operations in Tangier.
The first repatriation flight for Thomas Cook customers from Morocco departed, Wednesday, «as planned», the British Embassy in Rabat said in a press release sent to Yabiladi. These tourists were able to return home after they booked with the British tour operator, which announced its collapse Monday, September 23. «A team from the UK and staff from the British Embassy in Rabat and British Consulate in Marrakech (…) will continue to assist passengers booked on to
Aminatou Haidar is one of the four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize. The winners’ names were announced, Wednesday, from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs building in Stockholm. The president of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) was awarded alongside feminist lawyer Guo Jianmei from China, young Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg, Portuguese-speaking spokesperson for the Yanomami Indians
The Spanish National Court and the Prosecutor’s Office have refused the requests made by the victims of the 2017 Barcelona attacks. Their lawyer alleges that the mastermind of the La Rambla attacks, a Moroccan imam called Abdelbaki Es Satty, had links with the Spanish intelligence services.
In an interview published, Tuesday, by French daily newspaper Le Parisien, French-Canadian-Moroccan stand-up comedian Gad Elmaleh admitted that he had borrowed before some jokes and routines from American comedians. «The new generation of comedians was born to stand-up comedy, unlike us, we were completely amazed, fascinated by it … At that moment, what do we do? We were inspired by it, yes, we took things and put them in our own context. But, here we are talking about one
The 74th session of the UN General Assembly is examining a report submitted on August 15 by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the «Right of peoples to self-determination». A part of this document addresses the Western Sahara question. The Secretary-General’s reports talks about «the situation concerning Western Sahara, covering developments since his previous report and providing a description of the situation on the ground, the status and
Drinking coffee in Morocco, is a privilege, according to those who think of the days when caffeine consumers were considered outsiders and criminals. History books recall the era when Muslim scholars forbade drinking coffee.
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