On Monday, several reports suggested that Atlas Lions' coach Hervé Renard would be leaving Morocco after the team was knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations, currently held in Egypt. According to Arabic-language daily Al Massae, a Royal Moroccan Football Federation «meeting» will decide fate of the French coach. This meeting will reportedly «announce a breakup with Renard whose contract with the Lions is to expire in 2022», the newspaper reported, recalling
Spanish news outlets have announced, last week, that the Sanchez government has granted €26 million to Morocco to manage irregular migration. This fund is allocated by the European Union and not Spanish taxpayers.
Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, expected to leave office in August, has ended up inviting the Polisario to the inauguration ceremony of Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, the Front’s news agency SPS reported on Sunday. The invitation was handed over by the Mauritanian Foreign Affairs Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh to the Front’s «Foreign Minister» Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, the same source says. The invitation sent to Polisario comes as «sources close to the
British-Moroccan model Nora Attal is on the cover of fashion magazine Vogue. But this time, the young woman posed with her family for a photo taken in her house in Morocco. On her Instagram account, Attal shared the photo taken by photographer Oliver Hardlee Pearch. The photo shows Nora standing next to her sister and brother for the Vogue Italia’s July issue on DNA, Huffpostmaghreb says. Nora Attal, who has been ranked as one of the «Top 50» models by models.com,
Princess Lalla Salma and her son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, have reportedly arrived to Skiathos, a Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea, for holidays, Greek newspaper Greek Reporter wrote on Sunday. According to the same source, they arrived at Skiathos airport on Saturday, July 6, and headed to luxury hotel Koukounaries. The newspaper recalls that this is not the first time that the princess and her son visit Greece. In 2012, Lalla Salma visited Ilia in Western Greece. One year earlier,
Relations between Mauritania and the Polisario Front are going through a crisis. According to Anbaa Info, which quotes «sources close to the Mauritanian palace», Polisario’s leader Brahim Ghali has been removed from the list of personalities invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of Mauritania’s newly elected president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. The newspaper said that in Niamey, where he attended an African Union meeting, Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh did not
Seven Moroccan nationals were killed, eight injured and three others are missing in a deadly raid that hit a migrant center in Tajoura, near Tripoli, the Moroccan consulate in Tunis said on Saturday. The Libyan authorities in Tripoli and the Libyan diplomatic mission in Rabat confirmed in a statement, quoted by MAP, that these nationals are among the 18 Moroccans that were staying at a Libyan detention center that was targeted by a raid on Thursday. The same source reported that
After graduating highschool, Aabir Rhardane moved to France to complete her studies. Despite the difficulties she faced, she succeeded in establishing a path of success in Luxemburg and began her career in one of the oldest banking institutions in the world.
Atlas Lions’ coach Hervé Renard said that he is fully responsible for Morocco’s shock exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), Reuters reported. «I'm responsible for this defeat. I salute Benin for winning. They played according to a specific strategy and it worked while we didn't find solutions», Renard said after Benin won 4-1 on post-match penalties following a 1-1 draw. «We knew it was going to be a tough match because Benin managed to beat
The Atlas Lions have officially left the Africa Cup of Nations, losing to Benin national football team. After the two teams equally scored one goal during the second half, they entered extra time and ended the game with kicks.