Le Marocain Mohamed Mezouari (76 kg) a remporté la 3e édition du Grand Prix de Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI de kick-boxing, disputée aux premières heures de la matinée de dimanche à la salle couverte Ziaten à Tanger. Surnommé Mootje Hamicha, Mezouari s'est adjugé le titre après sa victoire par KO face au Thaïlandais Thongchai Sitsongpeenong, leader du circuit mondial «Glory» (135
Lors d’une réunion hier à Rabat, le ministre de la Justice a appelé les acteurs à collaborer avec sérieux et responsabilité pour lutter contre ce phénomène. Des campagnes de sensibilisation seront également déployées auprès des professionnels, des notaires, des adouls, des avocats et des MRE. Compte-rendu.
Muslims in the Quebec city will finally have their own cemetery, the municipality announced on Friday after months of procrastination, La Croix reports. This cemetery was promised after the massive shooting at a mosque in Quebec late January, when six worshipers were killed by a student. The Muslim cemetery is supposed to take part of a land adjoining the present cemetery of the city. According to the same source, the city of Quebec «accepted (...) an offer of purchase filed by the
FC Barcelona announced today in a statement the closing of its football academy in Casablanca, FCB Escola, following two years of operations, according to Spanish sports information website Be Soccer. The club did not indicate the reasons behind the termination of its contract with the local company in charge of the management of the academy. It has been disclosed however, that the club did not have, at the moment, any «official sporting project on Moroccan soil», and proceeded to
L’écrivain et journaliste marocain Mohamed Chakor, premier correspondant de l’agence Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) en Espagne, est décédé, vendredi dans son domicile à Madrid à l’âge de 80 ans, a-t-on appris auprès de sa famille. Feu Mohamed Chakor est décédé des suites d’une longue maladie et sera rapatrié au Maroc pour être enterré à Rabat, a-t-on ajouté de
Morocco and Nepal, a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia, signed on the 3rd of August a Memorandum of Understanding on the formation of a bilateral consultation mechanism, reports the Himalayan Times. Mohmmed Maliki, the Ambassador to Nepal and Shankar Das Bairagi, Nepal’s Foreign Secretary attended a ceremony in the Foreign Ministry where they signed the MoU. The latter, according to Baigari will help «exploring ways and means for further expanding and consolidating
The funeral of Mohamed Ait Saïd, a peacekeeper from the Minusca, who died in the Central African Republic in an armed group attack, took place on Thursday in Ouarzazate. After Al Asr prayer the funeral procession moved to the Tigmi El Jadid cemetery where the body of the deceased was buried. His funeral was attended by members his family, friends and relatives, as well as several senior military and civilian figures. Similarly, the funeral of Master Corporal Zaid Kabouz, also killed in
Les obsèques du sergent-chef Mohamed Ait Saïd, militaire du contingent des FAR de la Minusca, décédé en Centrafrique dans une attaque perpétrée par un groupe armé, ont eu lieu jeudi à Ouarzazate. Après les prières d’Al Asr et du mort à la mosquée Al Atiq de Ouarzazate, le cortège funèbre s’est ébranlé vers le cimetière Tigmi El Jadid, où la
Royal Air Maroc has set a new traffic record last weekend (29th and 30th of July 2017), the company said in a statement. 57,739 passengers flew with the company on 517 flights (round trip) during these two days. This influx has set an exceptional record at Mohammed V airport, where nearly 42,726 people took 350 flights of the Royal Air Maroc round trip. The Casablanca hub accounted for 74% of the company’s traffic. «This achievement was made possible by the arrangements put by the
Wärtsilä group, a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets, is to source a 22MW base load power plant to Morocco following «an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract», reports the company today. The Moroccan state which will made use of the new engines has insisted on a specific evaluation principle for the plant which will guarantee «a levelized cost of energy