Egypt, which hosts the 32nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, released a music video that cropped Morocco's map. The Egyptian federation was quick to react to the wave of anger, apologizing to the Kingdom and removing the video from Youtube.
The Confederation of African Football has given the go-ahead to the Royal Moroccan Football Federation to replace Abderrazak Hamdallah, who picked up an injury, by Moroccan championship player Abdelkrim Baadi. Meanwhile, Achraf Dari joined the Atlas Lions in Egypt, replacing Manuel Da Costa.
The Polisario Front has arrested another Sahrawi activist in the camps, Spanish news agency Europa Press. The arrest is part of a campaign launched by the movement to silence its opponents in Tindouf. After abducting Moulay Abba Bouzid and Fadel Brika, two members of opposition group the Sahrawi Initiative for Change (SIC), the Polisario arrested Sahrawi blogger and activist Mahmud Zedan. Speaking to the leader of Sahrawi opposition movement Khat Achahid (the Martyr’s Line) Mahjoub
As expected, the House of Representatives’ Committee of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Islamic Affairs and Moroccans Living Abroad discussed, Wednesday, the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, which includes the Sahara’s waters. The agreement was unanimously adopted on the same day. On Tuesday, June 25, the deal will be voted in a plenary session at the house of councilors. On Tuesday, June 18, the Spanish Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Luis Planas said in Luxembourg that
22 migrants died and 27 others were rescued by a Spanish passenger ferry off Morocco, German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports. The rescued migrants, who were found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea, said that 22 people who were with them when they embarked in Morocco died and «were thrown in to the water». Quoting Spanish newspaper El Pais, the press agency wrote that the passenger ferry rescued the migrants on Wednesday, while travelling from Melilla to Motril, a
A 69-year-old Moroccan national died of a heart attack yesterday morning, while transporting goods from Ceuta to Morocco, says Spanish newspaper El Faro de Ceuta. Originally from Fnideq, he was found dead by a Moroccan agent, who noticed that he had not joined a group of carriers. The news spread like wildfire among his fellow carriers. The man was living off the money he used to make from carrying goods between Morocco and Spain in spite of his health problems, the newspaper concluded.
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
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