BBC presenter and documentary filmmaker Stacey Dooley has been under fire after calling a Muslim gesture an «ISIS salute». British public service broadcaster apologized for the scene that was part of a documentary broadcast, Monday, the Independent reports. The documentary entitled «Meet the IS Brides» shows Dooley visiting camps in northern Syria and meeting with women who joined ISIS. But while visiting one of these camps, Dooley commented on a woman who was raising
The Peruvian capital is hosting, Tuesday, the international conference for Democracy in Venezuela. The meeting is organized by the Lima group, a multilateral body of 14 countries created in August 2017 to establish a peaceful exit to the Crisis in Venezuela. 59 countries will be participating to the meeting in Lima. Others have rejected the invitation sent to them in June, including Russia, China and Turkey. The Lima group has initially invited 100 countries to the conference. Morocco is one
Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has signed a free-sale codeshare with the Royal Jordanian Airlines (JR), the company said in a communiqué on Monday. The agreement will allow RAM to put Royal Jordanian’s carrier code on its flights linking Casablanca’s Mohammed V International Airport to Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport. The new agreement aims at «enhancing cooperation between the two flag carriers and improve passenger traffic
The health condition of three Sahrawi activists Moulay Abba Bouzeid, Fadel Breika and Mahmoud Zeidan, arrested in the Tindouf camps, has deteriorated. Quoting their families, pro-Polisario news outlet Futuro-Sahara wrote that the three detainees have been on a hunger strike for several days to protest against their arrest and call for a fair trial. The same source reports that Moulay Abba Bouzeid, who suffers from liver inflammation, could lose one of his kidneys if he doesn’t suspend
Schalke O4 chairman Clemens Tönnies is under fire for making racist comments on Africa. The German entrepreneur, who heads the club where Moroccan international footballer Amine Harit plays, has been pressured by fans to resign. In a public meeting held in Paderborn, a city in Western Germany, Tönnies said that the best way to fight climate change is to stop deforestation in Africa and prevent Africans from «having babies», the Guardian reports. «Then the Africans
While Jared Kushner reportedly flew to Morocco to meet Arab officials, Jordanian Foreign Minister visited Tangier to meet his Moroccan counterpart, diplomatic sources said.
Moroccan rapper Zakaria Ennaji, better known by his stage name Lbenj, said that he would love to team up with Egyptian counterpart, actor and director Ahmed Mekki for a rap duet, Egypt Today reports. Speaking at the Ifrane International Music Festival in Morocco, the rapper said that he sees Mekki as an «idol» and that he is his «favorite Egyptian rapper». The Moroccan star told reporters that he hopes to perform with Mekki sometime soon.
The Western Sahara issue is again not part of the provisional program of work of the Security Council for the month of August, which was released on Friday. Presided by Poland for one month, the schedule made public by the UN body does not include meetings on the territorial issue. It is the fourth Security Council program work schedule that does not make mention of the Western Sahara issue after the adoption of resolution 2468. For the record, the MINURSO’s mandate will have to be
A ship from the maritime service of the Spanish Civil Guard in Ceuta found, early Friday afternoon, in the waters near the southern coast of Ceuta, the body of a man of Moroccan origin. According to news agency Europa Press, the body of the Moroccan seems to have spent «at least a week» at sea, given its «advanced state» of decomposition. According to sources from the local police command, the owner of a leisure boat sailing around the beach of El Desnarigado, about
An 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped in Etxebarría Park in Bilbao by six homeless individuals of Maghreb origin. According to El Espanol, the regional police arrested six men aged 18 to 36, «all Moroccans and Algerians». «They are accused of raping the girl, Thursday, August 1 at 11 pm», the newspaper said. The girl was walking alone when the six individuals, who were in a makeshift camp, allegedly approached her and forcibly took her to the camp before
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