According to the recent report of Greenpeace on SO2 emission hotspots, Morocco is among the top 25 SO2 emitter countries. The report spots three major SO2 emitters in Morocco, located in Mohammedia, Jorf Lasfar and Safi.
After he was summoned by the Atlas Lions’ new manager Vahid Halilhodzic, the Moroccan international Mohammed Ihattaren has received an offer from the Dutch junior team. The list, published in the team’s official website, includes the name of the 17-year-old striker born in Utrecht. A few days ago, Mohammed Ihattaren said that he bears both the Moroccan and Dutch citizenships but he had not yet decided which jersey he wants to wear. «What I want is to play football and make a
Argentinian singer Chano Moreno Charpentier, also known as Chano, was robbed, Wednesday, in Spain by two young men from the Maghreb. According to local newspaper El Caso, the singer was in Rambla del Raval with his girlfriend when he was robbed. The two men snitched his wallet, which contained his credit cards and passport. The latter was found near some bushes in the Rambla del Raval, the same source added. Chano gave two versions of the story to the police, El Caso indicates, adding that
After American newspaper the Wall Street Journal published an article, quoting the position of some US officials on the Western Sahara dispute, the Polisario decided to reply, relying on its representative in Australia and New Zealand.
According to the findings of a legal doctor, German hitchhiker, who was allegedly killed by a Moroccan truck driver, was not sexually abused, German weekly Der Spiegel reports. A forensic report delivered during the trial suggested that no sperm traces were found on the body of the student. An autopsy report from Spain, where the body of Sophia L. was found, had the same conclusion. The murdered student left her house on Leipzig, last year, to visit her parents in Amberg, Germany. She was
Cargo handling solutions and services company Kalmar is expected to upgrade four ZPMC ship to shore cranes, signing an agreement with Moroccan container terminal Eurogate Tanger (EGT), located on the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco. According to Vertical, Kalmar will work on raising the height of the four cranes by 11 meters and extend the booms by six meters. The project will start by 2020, «enabling the terminal to serve the largest container vessels». «With this
Salma Benncharki, the wife of «ISIS boxer» Abderrahim Moutaharrik who is in prison for terrorism charges, was deported to Morocco, Italian newspaper Repubblica reports. She was sent to Morocco because of security reasons and on the grounds of an order signed by Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a former kickboxer, was arrested in April 2016 and sentenced to six years in prison for terror-related
In a study published in August, a team from the Natural History Museum in London announced that they have discovered the oldest Stegosaur in Morocco. Known as Adratiklit Boulahfa, which means the «mountain lizard», the dinosaur is the first Stegosaur to be found in North Africa.
On August 24, an American woman will be selling bottled water at the Day of Hope event on Third Avenue, Lake County in the state of Illinois in the United States. She also organizes a musical event from 8pm to 11pm at the Perfect Shot on October 11. The profits will go for a project of reusable water bottles with filters for Morocco, reports local American media Valley Journal. Shelley Cleverdon found a limited water supply in Morocco while she was on vacation in 2016. She therefore made the
To insult the Dutch writer and columnist Özcan Akyol, a 31-year-old Moroccan man living in Amersfoort was sentenced to four days in prison on Tuesday. According to the Dutch newspaper Noordhollands Dagblad, the man has already served this sentence. From January to March of this year, Khalid H. sent nine offensive messages through Facebook to the Deventer columnist. «I wanted to give my opinion. Unfortunately, I used the wrong words», the man in question admitted in court