In a new investigation published Tuesday, French newspaper Mediapart revealed that in 2017 King Mohammed had allegedly helped his friend, French judoka Teddy Riner, get recruited by Paris Saint-Germain. Reportedly, the Qatari Emir intervened to create an exclusive judo section for the athlete.
The family of Azzam Raguragui, a Moroccan teenager who was stabbed to death Friday at a Park in Dublin’s suburbs in Ireland, said that they rest faith in the Irish justice system to hold the perpetrators to account, Irish Examiner reports. In a statement issued through Gardai (Irish police), Abderrahmane Raguragui and Hajiba Elouaddaf said that the police «are leading in the investigation to uncover the truth behind [their] son Azzam Raguragui’s murder». The Moroccan
In Midrand, MPs form Morocco and Algeria clashed during a Pan-African Parliament session held Monday. The session focused on the African Union’s 2019 theme of refugees, returnees, and internally displaced people in the continent.
A conference to promote Chinese tea production in the Kingdom was held, Monday, in Casablanca and was attended by government officials and tea merchants, Chinese international English-language news channel CGTN reported. The Hunan Tea Promotion Conference, named after one of the largest tea production provinces in China, was attended by Hunan Province’s vice governor Sui Zhongcheng. The latter hoped that «tea merchants from Hunan and Morocco will know each other via the conference
US President Donald Trump hosted, Monday at the White House, his second iftar dinner, an annual reception held to celebrate the month of Ramadan. Inviting a number of Muslim diplomatic leaders, Trump said during the dinner that it has «been a very rough time» on Muslims around the world, ABC News reports. The American president made mention of the terror attacks that targeted Muslims in New Zealand and which took the lives of 51 Muslim worshippers. «In their blessed memory,
American multinational virtual reality and augmented reality software developer EON Reality has teamed up with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch the first Interactive Digital Center (IDC) in Morocco, Intelligence CIO reported. The new Interactive Digital Center, located in Mohammed VI Polytechnic University’s campus in Ben Guerir, is set to «provide Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) technology, solutions, and products to Morocco’s
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Nasser Bourita is expected to attend, Tuesday, a session at the House of Representatives. The Minister is summoned by the Foreign Affairs Committee to present the «latest developments of the Sahara conflict», Arabic-language daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribiya reported on Monday. For the record, resolution 2468 on the Sahara was adopted on April the 30th by the United Nations Security Council, extending the MINURSO’s
In 1969, Morocco and the Netherlands signed a bilateral treaty for the recruitment of guest workers. Through a moving exhibition, the Moroccan community in Holland celebrates the fights and achievements of these guest workers, who did not return home.
Irish police (Gardai) announced, Monday, that they have identified the suspect, linked to the death of a Moroccan teenager stabbed, Friday, in a park in Dundrum, a suburb of the Irish capital, the Irish Times reports. Garda sources told the newspaper that they believe a south Dublin teenager is the suspect for the stabbing that took the life of Azzam Raguragui, adding that they have already been in contact with his family. The suspect has not been arrested yet, but a teenager who said he was
Earlier in May, President Donald Trump designed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. According to media reports, the American President was advised against considering Morocco’s PJD when thinking of the decision.