Algerian police arrested, Friday, former Moroccan journalist and the Advocacy and Communications Director for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division Ahmed Reda Benchemsi in Algiers. The founder and former editor of Moroccan weekly magazine TelQuel has been taken to a police station in Algiers after he was at a scene of popular protest, Algerian newspaper Al Watan reports. Speaking to his lawyer Abdelghani Badi, the same source indicates that he cannot tell
Throughout history, Moroccan women’s clothes were influenced by their lifestyle, culture and identity. But were they less conservative than nowadays ? To historians, the story of what our foremothers wore in the past is more complicated than that.
The Liberian government has finally responded to the demands of its stranded students in Morocco, who said that they have not received allowances for several months. Speaking at a press briefing, Liberian Presidential Press Secretary Isaac Solo Kelgbeh said that the scholarship students would receive allowances soon through the Ministries of Finance and Education, Front Page Africa Online reports. The official, also, explained that these students who staged a sit-in at the Liberian embassy in
The Japanese ambassador to Rabat announced that his country is not interested in inviting «SADR» to its upcoming Tokyo International Conference of Africa’s Development, expected to take place in Yokohama. Japan couldn’t honor a similar promise last year.
American Airlines, a major American airline headquartered in Texas, announced, Thursday, that it will be operating nonstop flights between Philadelphia and Casablanca by June 2020, local online news paper Phillyvoice reports. Quoting USA Today, the same source stated that the new route will be offering three weekly flights starting from June 4, 2020, until September 8, 2020, on Boeing 757 planes. The Casablanca flight will serve as a «connecting point to other African destinations like
The Muslim community in Germany has urged the government to create a position to fight against Islamophobia in the country, reports Turkish news agency Anadolu. The president of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany Aiman Mazyek said, Wednesday, that the country must appoint an Islamophobia commissioner. «We have seen the importance of such a post after the federal government appointed a commissioner to combat anti-Semitism», he told German daily Bild. Anadolu recalls that
French manager Laurent Blanc is reportedly in Morocco to meet officials from the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, media sources said. According to Afrik-foot, which quotes Arryadia, the French coach arrived Wednesday night at Mohamed V airport in Casablanca. «While all signs point at Havid Halilhodzic (a Serbian coach), who is likely to replace Hervé Renard, a surprise might contradict expectations», wrote Afrik-foot. Photos du jour. Arrivée de @BlancLaurent
Moroccans have a very special relationship with meat consumption. The practice evolved throughout the years, getting influenced by social, religious and cultural factors.
Official figures revealed by the Spanish Interior Ministry refer to a sharp decline in the number of migrants arriving in Spain on boats during the first semester of 2019. Data published by the department suggest that the number of these boats dropped by 42.2% during the period between January and July, 2019 compared to last year, reports La Razon. 16,600 irregular migrants arrive din Spain during this period, compared to last year, during which 26,260 did. «Migrants arriving on boats
A Paris court sentenced, Wednesday, an Italian-Moroccan mother to eight years in prison for joining a jihadist group in Syria. Rajae Moujahid has indeed been found guilty of joining the group and for bringing her children with her. According to AFP, the accused left for Syria in March 2017 for a nine-month stay, with her three children, aged at the time between 5 and 9 years old. When she arrived in Idlib, she got married. Rajae Moujahid, who was pregnant at the time, returned to Turkey in
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