The former Secretary General of the Commonwealth Emeka Anyaoku has urged the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari to refuse Morocco’s bid to join the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS), reports today ThisDay, the Nigerian national newspaper. According to the same source, Anyaoku announced that yesterday, 10th of August, in Lagos Nigeria’s largest city during the second annual Akintola Williams Foundation’s lecture. For the senior official, allowing Morocco
The number of funerals organized according to the Muslim rituals is increasing sharply in Brussels, indicates online newspaper, Sud Info Quoting VRT Nieuws. The Evere cemetery (Brussels-Capital Region) has, for example, seen the number of Muslim graves almost triple since 2003. «It seems to me that the link with the country of origin is shrinking,» says Ludo Beckers, Director of the Evere Cemetery. «When people of Muslim faith return to their country, they are
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) announced on Friday that it has set a bid to host the 2026 World cup. «The Royal Moroccan Football Federation officially set a bid on Friday August 11, 2017 to host the 2026 World Cup. The Federation has filed the application file with the committees responsible for this file in the International Federation of Football Association», said the FRMF in a press release. The current president of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick
Le décès d’un individu jeudi à Al Hoceima est «accidentel», après avoir chuté du toit de son domicile, a indiqué le procureur général du roi près la cour d’appel d’Al Hoceima. «Le procureur général du Roi près la cour d’appel d’Al Hoceima, et pour lever toute ambiguïté, annonce qu’après investigations et selon les déclarations du
Abdessadak Elbouchattaoui, a member of the Hirak detainees' defense committee, said on Wednesday night on his Facebook page that he was summoned by the police in Tetouan. «Each voice is targeted and every activist and human rights activist is targeted,» he said, indicating that the reason why he was summoned by the police is linked to «his declarations to the national media and his opinion regarding the Hirak movement in the Rif region». Contacted by Al Aoual,
Moroccan nationals are the fourth nationality to seek asylum in Luxembourg, according to the daily Luxemburger Wort. Out of a total of 1,369 people who sought international protection, 120 are Moroccan. The Syrians (224) were the first to seek asylum there, followed by Serbs (150) and Algerians (195). The country registered more applications this year than in 2016, which amounted to 1,025. This year, Luxembourg has granted refugee status to 619 people and subsidiary protection to 11 people.
700 migrants have tried to force their way into Ceuta in a failing attempt, Associated Press, an American nonprofit news agency, said today. According to the Interior Ministry’s office in Ceuta «migrants also tried to scale the six-meter-tall barbed –wire fences around Ceuta after the early Thursday crossing attempt at the Tarajal post failed, but were again repelled by Moroccan and Spanish police». On Wednesday, the Moroccan and Spanish authorities have closed the
Three Saudi nationals were sentenced yesterday in Dubai to ten years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting a Moroccan woman, reports the Emirati newspaper The National. In January 2017, three men aged between 24 and 27 had accompanied a 32-year-old woman to their hotel room to «party». One of them raped her and forced her to «pleasure to his brother and his friend.» «We spoke for a while and I told them I was heading to another club but they invited me to
A Moroccan woman living in Bengaluru, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state was mugged by two men who broke into her apartment last week, The Times of India said yesterday. Identified as Mouna Boujmal, the 27-year-old national works for IDEX, a corporation based in the USA and is engaged in the development, design, and manufacture of fluidics systems. She was given an apartment as part of her training period where she lives. According to the same source, Boujmal heard a
Morocco has set a historical record on the daily consumption of electricity, respectively on the 7th and 8th of August due to the intense heat wave that the kingdom witnesses these days, The National Office of Electricity and Potable Water (ONEE) said on Wednesday. «Morocco has set a historical record of the electric power demanded, both in the morning and the evening of Monday 7th of August 2017 as well as the daily consumption of electricity on Tuesday 8th of August 2017», ONEE