Tunisian authorities in the city of Zarzis, southeastern Tunisia, have finally accepted to receive a rescue boat carrying 75 migrants, including a Moroccan national, that has been stranded off the country for three weeks, the Red Crescent told Reuters on Wednesday. These migrants were rescued by an Egyptian boat in the Tunisian waters. The boat, which was stranded 25 km from the coastal city of Zarzis, was not allowed to disembark after migrants were told that the city’s
The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, a Kuwait-based pan-Arab development finance institution, is lending Morocco 2.27 billion dirham to finance an infrastructure project, Reuters reports. An agreement was signed, Wednesday, to help the Kingdom upgrade its road network in its eastern provinces, Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaaboun said. According to the same source, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development has concluded 72 agreements with Morocco, lending the country a
Former Polisario leader Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud said that the Front’s leadership has launched a campaign against Sahrawi activists in the Tindouf camps. In one week, two members of opposition group the Sahrawi Initiative for Change were arrested by the separatist movement’s leadership.
Dutch school inspectors have ruled out that senior staff at an Amsterdam Islamic secondary school have been «involved in financial misconduct» without being able to prove that the instutution encourages students to praise «Salafism», Dutch News reports. The report, leaked to media earlier this week, reveals that the school is close to controversial people and that its current leadership is unable to «restore order». Inspectors have also said in their report
A 44-year-old New Zealander was sentenced, Tuesday, to 21 months in prison for sharing the graphic livestream filmed by the Australian terrorist who killed 55 Muslims worshippers in one of New Zealand’s ugliest terror attacks, New Zealand Herald reported. Philip Arps, a self-identified supremacist, was arrested in Christchurch four days after the attacks, which targeted two mosques in the city. Philip Arps described the attacks as «awesome», judge Stephen O'Driscoll
After arresting a member of the Sahrawi Initiative for Change (SIC), which operates within the Tindouf camps, the family and relatives of another member of the opposition group said he was kidnapped Tuesday. In a communiqué relayed by pro-Polisario platform Futuro Sahara, the movement said that Fadel Brika was abducted on Tuesday, according to his family members. Quoting «unofficial sources», the same online newspaper revealed that more arrests are expected to take place in
The Moroccan parliament will examine, Wednesday, a bill on joining the African Continental Free Trade Area. As in January 2017 with the Constitutive Act of the African Union, having «SADR» among the parties that signed AfCFTA shouldn’t be a stumbling block.
Moroccan mining firm Managem announced, Tuesday, that it acquired 30% stake of West African-focused gold mining and exploration company and partner, Avocet Mining, for $21 million, expanding its stake in the Tri-K gold project in Guinea Conakry to 85%, Reuters reported. In a statement relayed by the news agency, Managem indicates that this new acquisition is part of its plan to strengthen gold production in Africa and in the Republic of Guinea. The remaining stake in the joint venture that
Born in Sale, Raphael Encaoua is a Jewish saint who was the President of the High Rabbinical Court of Rabat. Encaoua is known for being the first Chief Rabbi of Morocco during the protectorate.
The lifeless body of Mohamed Harrouchy, a 41-year-old father, was discovered on June 9, buried in a park in rue de Verdun in Haren (Brussels region), Belgian newspapers RTL and Sud Info reported the weekend. The spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office Stéphanie Lagasse said that the victim, has been missing since December 2018. «An investigating judge was appointed to investigate the death of the man», Sud Info wrote, quoting Lagasse. A family member of
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