Casablanca’s Wydad Athletic Club lost to Tunisia’s Esperance after VAR was unable to judge equalizer. The tricky situation will be at the heart of a Confederation of African Football emergency meeting next week.
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Josep Borrell is expected to Visit Rabat, Monday, June 3, EFE says. Borrell will be holding talks in the capital with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita. He will also be participating in an international meeting on ties between the Kingdom and the European Union. The Spanish Minister is expected to attend a meeting with the officials from Spanish consulates in Morocco, the Spanish news agency said. Josep Borrell’s last visit to Morocco took place in
Morocco’s main telecommunication firm Maroc Telecom announced, Friday, that it has taken «note of a letter sent by the Minister of Economy and Finance regarding the government’s intention of selling 8 percent of its ownership stake in Maroc Telecom in the coming weeks». The government is planning to cede blocks of shares to undisclosed investors and make a public offer of sale on the Casablanca stock exchange, said Maroc Telecom in a communiqué sent to
Adagio City Aparthotel, a joint venture and a major hotel company offering rooms with cooking facilities, has opened its first North Africa property in Casablanca, the firm announced on its website last week. Adagio’s Moroccan facility has now 96 apartments, two gyms, a roof, a restaurant, a swimming pool and four meeting rooms that can host up to 200 people, the company said. For the record, Adagio City Aparthotel is a joint venture created in 2007 by AccorHotels and
Police in Greater Manchester, a city in England, have issued a statement, asking people to inform them if they see a Moroccan national, without approaching him. Accoridng to local newspaper Manchester Evening News and Oldham Evening Chronicle, the man in question is a 23-year-old called Reda Jermouni, who went missing. The last time Jermouni was seen was on Saturday, May 25, at around 2:30pm at the Salford Royal Hospital. «Reda is a Moroccan male, around 5ft 6in tall, with dark hair
King Mohammed VI did not send a message to the Arab leaders attending a summit in Mecca. The meeting denounced the Iranian regime’s policy and addressed the Yemeni crisis.
Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders said, Friday, that Twitter has temporarily blocked his account for comments he made about a political rival, citing Islam, Daily Mail reports. The anti-Islam campaigner’s Twitter account got blocked after he tweeted, calling the members of Dutch center-left party Democrats 66 «suckers … who import ever more Islam and then weep crocodile tears over the consequences such as honor killings». Speaking to the British newspaper, a
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini thanked, Thursday, the Moroccan authorities for arresting an Italian mafia leader. On his twitter account, the politician who serves as the country’s Interior Minister said that «twelve mafia members were arrested in Enna and Palermo, while in Morocco a dangerous fugitive from the Polverino de la Camorra clan was arrested». Indeed, Moroccan police announced this week that a 56-year-old Italian national suspected of
Highlighting its religious influence, Saudi Arabia brought more than 1,200 Muslim scholars together to sign the «Mecca Charter». The document aims at preserving moderate Islam values.
A Spanish policeman was killed, Thursday, in Spain as he was chasing two French-Moroccan men in a car that was carrying hashish, AFP reports, quoting police. The man was killed in Los Barrios in Cadiz, when he was trying to arrest the two men on his motorbike. Spanish media reported that the policeman, who is a married man and the father of a 10-year-old, died after he hit a truck. Speaking to AFP, a spokesman for the Civil Guard said that the two French-Moroccan nationals «had