From 1981 to 1989, while affirming its refusal to negotiate directly with the Polisario Front, the Kingdom sent its emissaries to meet those of the separatist movement several times. However, these meetings, including one chaired by Hassan II, failed to fulfill their objectives.
French-born Moroccan midfielder Yassine Benrahou has extended his contract with French football club Bordeaux for two additional years, sports online newspaper Goal reported on Friday, quoting the club's Twitter account. It’s official! @YBenrahou10 has re-signed through 2022! ?⚪️ pic.twitter.com/hq9OS94Xwk — Girondins English (@girondins_en) 22 août 2019 After joining the club as a junior in 2016, the 21-year-old footballer was re-signed. His first professional
Ait Faska will be home to North Africa’s first Holocaust memorial. In the small village near Marrakech, the project in the making will include an LGBTQ+ corner to pay tribute to gay Jews who died in the European concentration camps.
On Tuesday, Rabat’s mayor announced on his Facebook page that the capital will have its new bus fleet delivered by Wednesday. The new buses, operated by the Spanish subsidiary of the UK company National Express, were indeed operational by the 22nd of August, but a spelling mistake featured on them did not go unnoticed. Spotted by the inhabitants of the city and shared online, the bus which features the name of the city in both Arabic and French misspelled the word Rabat in
More than 50 boats will be heading south, Friday August 23, to take part in the Morocco Yacht Rally in aid of the Red Cross, Gibraltar's public service broadcaster GBC reports. The participating yachts will have to sail from Gibraltar to the Tanja Marina Bay in the city of Tangier. The participants are from «Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and the United States», the same source said. The Morocco Yacht Rally is held to raise funds for the Red Cross. For this year, the
Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah appointed, Thursday, a new ambassador to Morocco, Algerian daily Echorouk reports. The diplomat Abdelaziz Benali Cherif will replace Ahmed Benyamina, who acted as the country’s ambassador to Rabat for almost nine years, according to Huffpost Maghreb. For the record, Benali Cherif served before as the spokesperson for the Algerian Foreign Ministry. The new appointment comes as Bensalah named, Thursday, several new ambassadors to
After it was reported that he rejected the Italian club’s offer, Belgian club Bruges announced, Thursday, that the Moroccan international midfielder Sofyan Amrabat was loaned to Hellas Verona for one season, MAP reports. Hellas Verona will have the option signing the Moroccan player, said the Belgian club. Born in Blaricum on August 21, 1996 to Moroccan parents from Ben Tayeb, Sofyan grew up in Huizen and started playing football at an early age with his big brother Nordin. In 2013, he
After he previously announced that his movement may declare war against Morocco, the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali said this week that his statements were «not war threats». Interviewed, Tuesday, by United States-based public Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al Hurra, Ghali stressed that «Sahrawis do not want to start war», but would opt for it «if needed». Quoted by the Front’s news agency SPS, he stressed that the «failure» of
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that it wants to allow the indefinite detention of undocumented families that enter the United States, removing the agreement that «sets a 20-day limit for holding children» CNN reports. The US Department of Homeland Security wants, through this decision, to ignore a 1997 court decision, called «Flores settlement», which forces authorities to release minor migrants after 20 days. With this measure, the US
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.
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