One of the two Moroccan nationals who were killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday, died on the same day as his birthday, reports Gulf News which made a list of the Arab victims on board the ill-fated Ethiopian Boeing 737 Max 8. The victim is the Moroccan official at the Ministry of Energy and Ecologist Ben Ahmed Chihab. The latter was attending an UN-backed panel on the Convention on Biodiversity, flying to Nairobi on his birthday : 10th of March. «On his official Facebook
Shortly after the Ethiopian Airlines crash took place, American aircraft manufacturing company announced, Monday, that it would update software in the 737 Max 8 involved in the tragedy. The decision was taken after the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it would mandate «design changes» in the aircraft by April, reports Reuters. According to the same source, «the software upgrade will be deployed across the 737 Max fleet in the coming weeks». This is
The 2019 Algerian presidential election, scheduled for April the 18th, will not be taking place. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced, in a letter addressed Monday to Algerian, that he will not seek a fifth term.
Police in Guelmim arrested, Monday evening, a gunman, 44, who opened fire on several people near his place in the «Tagna» district, says MAP news agency. The suspect, who was living abroad, opened fire randomly on passersby, using his hunting rifle. He killed a person born in 1991 and injured eleven others, including two police officers, said General Directorate of National Security in a communiqué. The same source indicated that the injured were transferred to
To the great displeasure of anti-normalization activists, ten Israeli judokas participated, during the weekend, to the Judo Grand Prix, held in Marrakech on the 9th and 10th of March. Although the Israeli anthem was not played during the competition, the Jewish state’s flag was hoisted in Marrakech. The Israeli government’s spokesperson Ofir Gendelman celebrated on his Twitter account the fact that the Israeli flag was hoisted twice in Marrakech, after two Israeli
The Polisario Front has sent M’Hamed Khaddad to Mauritania. The Polisario’s coordinator with Minurso handed over on Monday, March the 11th, a letter from Brahim Ghali to the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, reports Mauritanian press agency AMI. At the end of their meeting, Khaddad told Mauritania’s official news agency that he «informed» Ould Abdel Aziz about the «efforts made by the international community to help achieve a just and
Moroccan medical students in Morocco are faced with abnormal eating habits that harm their well-being. A new study shows that a third of these students suffer from eating disorders.
The Tangier court has abandoned proceedings against Spanish activist Helena Maleno, who had been accused of having alleged links with people traffickers, report Spanish daily El Mundo. «The Moroccan court has stated that there is no evidence against Maleno», Walking Borders’s spokesperson, who is Helena Maleno herself, said in a statement. Soy Helena Maleno, defensora de Derechos Humanos, y... ¡la justicia marroquí ha archivado la causa penal
Royal Air Maroc (RAM), the Moroccan national carrier, announced, Monday, that it has suspended the use of Boeing's new 737 MAX 8 aircraft, following the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people. The decision was taken to «start aircraft maintenance», RAM CEO Abdelhamid Addou told French-language online newspaper HuffPost Maroc. Aircraft manufacturing company Boeing delivered Morocco’s first Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane on December the 22nd, 2018. The latter has been
According to data made public by SIPRI’s 2018 Trends in International Arms Transfers, Morocco and Algeria are the largest arms importers in Africa. The USA and France were the main suppliers of arms to the Kingdom in 2014–18.
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