Minister of Youth and Sports Rachid Talbi Alami blamed, Monday, during a session at the House of Representatives the defeat of the Atlas Lions at the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) on bad luck. «Like all Moroccans, we regret the fact that Morocco left the tournament», the Minister said. «The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has set up a technical committee to determine the reasons behind this exit», he added. «The national team was the best in
The Executive Council of the African Union adopted, Saturday, a decision urging the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to visit the Sahara. The decision comes ahead of an African Union troika meeting on the Western Sahara conflict.
Mohammed bin Zayed An Nahyan, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, received a phone call, Sunday, from King Mohammed VI. The Moroccan sovereign and Zayed Al Nahyan «discussed brotherly relations between the two countries and ways to develop them», the third son of the first President of the United Arab Emirates said on his Twitter account, adding that they addressed «issues of common
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
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