In Niamey (Niger), Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita reassured Moroccans about the Kingdom’s new membership of the African Free Trade Agreement Area, joined by the Polisario Front. Joining AfCFTA should not be interpreted as an acknowledgement of an entity that threatens the Kingdom’s territorial integrity, Bourita said.
The court of first instance in Laayoune fined, Monday, Sahrawi activist Nezha Khalidi 4,000 dirhams for not having professional credentials to practice journalism, Spanish news agency EFE reports. The ruling was published on the court’s website, indicating that Khalidi, who is a member of pro-Polisario group Equipe Media, can retrieve her confiscated phone. Nezha Khalidi was arrested in December, 2018, for livestreaming on Facebook a street scene in Laayoune and denouncing
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,