Anass Ait El Abdia is the only Moroccan to participate to the Vuelta a Espana, an annual multi-stage bicycle race that will be held in Spain from the 19th of August starting from Nimes, France and will end on the 10th of September in Madrid. The athlete will represent the United Arab Emirates, reports the official website of the Emirati team. Sporting director, Simone Pedrazzini is confident about winning : «We have a good team, they are all in good shape», he told the
After spending holiday in Tangier, the Sudanese president returned to his country. Omar Hassan Al Bashir will presume his political activities by holding a meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Haile Mariam Dessalegn, expected this Tuesday in Khartoum. A very important visit for both countries. Al Bashir’s visit to Morocco has angered several human rights activists. They have called El Othmani’s government to arrest him according to the two international warrants
Moroccan authorities have rejected all accusations set by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claiming that they blocked international reporting in the Rif region, AFP news agency reported today. The international non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press, has announced earlier in July through a report that Morocco has prevented journalists from covering the event that took place in Al Hoceima city. «The situation
The Moroccan journalist and writer, Abdelkarim Ghallab passed away on Sunday night in El Jadida at 98, his family said on Monday. The deceased was a political journalist, a novelist and a cultural commentator. He was a well-known and distinguished figure of the national movement where he fought as a militant, an intellectual and journalist. Abdelkarim Ghallab, who headed Al Alam newspaper for several decades until early 2000's, is the author of five novels and three collections of short
Le grand journaliste et écrivain marocain Abdelkrim Ghallab est décédé, dimanche soir à El Jadida, à l'âge de 98 ans, a-t-on appris lundi auprès de sa famille. Politiquement engagé, feu Abdelkrim Ghallab a été un grand patriotique et défenseur de premier ordre des causes nationales dès l'aube du mouvement national, à la fois en tant que militant, intellectuel et journaliste. Abdelkrim Ghallab, qui
The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018, a global initiative aimed at harnessing the world's data and information resources to quantitatively describe and represent our planet, is to be held in El Jadida, Morocco from 17th to the 18th of April 2018, according to International Society for Digital Earth. The annual event will be hosted and co-organized by Chouaib Doukkali university and the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) in partnership with the African Association of Remote Sensing of
La sélection nationale des joueurs locaux de football et son homologue égyptienne ont fait match nul, un but partout, dimanche soir à Alexandrie, en match aller comptant pour le dernier tour des éliminatoires du Championnat d'Afrique des Nations (CHAN-2018) qui se tiendra au Kenya. La sélection égyptienne a ouvert la marque dès l'entrée de jeu (3e minute) par le biais d'Ahmed Sheikh, du point de penalty, avant que Badr Banoun
The man who drove his car into the crowds that gathered on Saturday in Charlottsville, Virginia is a Nazi sympathizer according to the Washington Post. The 20-year-old suspect who allegedly killed a woman and injured 14 people has shown in the past support for Nazi views. He is a teacher named James Alex Fields, who adopted nationalist and extremist views since high school, according to Derek Weimer, a history teacher who taught the alleged driver back in Kentucky. The latter told the
A delegation of the «Saharawi Committee for Human Rights», an official organization of the Polisario, went to the buffer zone of Tifarity to visit the group of 19 Moroccan detainees suspected of drug trafficking, indicates a media of the separatist group. «Prisoners had never been subjected to inhuman, degrading or ill treatment ... and they are in good health,» the organization said in a statement. Mustapha El Khalfi said on 27th of July during a press briefing that
Between 100 and 200 young people aged between 15 and 18 started a fight which interrupted the second day of the Moroccan festival organized in Laval yesterday at around 5.30 pm. The police tried to disperse the clashes, said the Canadian news agency QMI. «The police attempted to intervene, but the youth threw stones at them. They hid and even surrounded the police at one point», said Lieutenant Geneviere Villemure of the Laval Police Department. The festivities had nevertheless