Olympic and world champion Soufiane El Bakkali qualified for the 3000-meter steeplechase final at the Paris Olympics on Monday evening. El Bakkali secured his place by winning the qualifying heat in 8 minutes, 17 seconds, and 91 milliseconds. Fellow Moroccan Mohamed Tandouft also advanced to the final after winning his qualifying heat in 8 minutes, 10 seconds, and 63 milliseconds.
Morocco’s Olympic team lost 2-1 to Spain’s Under-21 team, losing their chance to reach the final. The Atlas Cubs played a tough game, opening the score with a penalty awarded to Soufiane Rahimi, who secured the team’s first goal in the 37th minute. The Spanish team managed to reach the Moroccan net in the 66th minute, with a goal of Fermin Lopez. They doubled their lead in the 85th minute, with a goal of Juanlu Sanchez. Morocco missed several opportunities to equalize the
Two hotels housing asylum seekers in the United Kingdom were attacked by far-right demonstrators on Sunday amid ongoing anti-Muslim, anti-migration riots. According to Al Jazeera, hundreds of people gathered in front of a Holiday Inn Express hotel housing asylum seekers near the town of Rotherham. They threw bricks at police, broke hotel windows, and set bins on fire. Videos of the riots showed police preventing masked rioters from storming the hotel. On the same day, Staffordshire Police
Spain's Ministry of the Interior has denied asylum requests from a brother and sister claiming to be Sahrawi activists persecuted by Moroccan authorities. The disabled siblings, residing in Laayoune, arrived in Madrid from Casablanca and subsequently applied for asylum at Barajas airport, Spanish media reported. Despite the rejection, the pair have received support from the Spanish representation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which urged the Spanish government
Spain's Director General of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Virginia Barcones, announced that the current Operation Strait Crossing (OPE) is on track to be the largest in its 35-year history, based on passenger and vehicle numbers. During a press conference at the Ceuta Government Delegation on Saturday, Barcones assessed the operation's progress. The past weekend was considered a peak period as many Moroccan families living in Europe traveled to and from their home country for summer
On the night of August 4-5, a 24-year-old Moroccan man was stabbed to death in Pontecorvo, a municipality in the Italian region of Frosinone, according to the Italian press. Residents of the area called the police after hearing screams, and when the police patrol arrived at the scene, they found the young man lying on the ground in a pool of blood, while his attacker had fled. The incident began with an argument between two young men, during which one of them used a knife to fatally stab the
The National Secretariat of the Moroccan Front for Palestine Support and Anti-Normalization expressed strong disapproval of the recent decision to receive a «new official at the Zionist Liaison Office in Rabat», replacing David Govrin who served Israel's permanent ambassador to Morocco. They group emphasized the «sentiment among many Moroccans who wish to sever relations with the occupation entity, cancel the normalization agreement and its subsidiary agreements, close the
A 31-year-old Moroccan took his own life on Saturday, August 3rd, in his cell in the Cremona District Prison in Italy’s Lombardy region, local media reported. The inmate who committed suicide was homeless, according to the same source, adding that he had been charged with «robbery and sexual violence». The Moroccan is the 62nd inmate to take his own life since the beginning of 2024 in Italy, the local newspaper reported. The same source adds that the Cremona prison,
The mayor of Ile-Saint-Denis, Mohamed Gnabaly, ordered the closure of the Moroccan stand at Station Afrique, a fan zone within the Olympic Village. The decision followed comments made by Moroccan singer Saida Charaf, of Saharan origin, expressing support for Morocco's position on Western Sahara. In a press release, the ecologist mayor justified terminating the agreement with the Moroccan embassy due to a breach of neutrality commitments. He stated, «International politics have no place
The next ordinary summit of the African Union, scheduled for February 2025, will see a race between Morocco and Algeria to win the first vice-presidency of the AU Commission, a position that is designated for the northern region of the continent. On August 3 and July 31, respectively, the two neighboring countries submitted their candidacies to the SADR's representative, Lamine Baali, who acts as dean of the regional grouping. He will forward them to the AU organs, according to Polisario media
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