The 8th edition of the world championship «Moulay El Hassan GKA Kitesurf world tour Morocco - Dakhla 2017», organized by the association Lagon Dakhla and the Global Kitsurfing Association (GKA), ended on Saturday with an overall satisfaction from participants and organizers alike. The closing ceremony of this world championship, under the High patronage of King Mohammed VI, was marked by the awarding of trophies to the winners in the presence of Mohamed Sajid, Minister of Tourism,
La 8ème édition du championnat mondial «Moulay El Hassan GKA Kitesurf world tour Morocco - Dakhla 2017», organisée par l’association Lagon Dakhla et le Global Kitsurfing Association (GKA), a pris fin samedi sur une note de satisfaction générale des participants et des organisateurs de cet évènement. La cérémonie de clôture de ce championnat mondial, placé sous le patronage du roi Mohammed VI, a
Three people died in a car accident on the 21st of July in Tortona, a commune of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy, Alessandria News, a local online newspaper reports. The driver lost control of the car and hit a tree, he was transported to the hospital in a critical condition while the three other passengers succumbed instantly. According to the same source the three deceased Moroccans aged between 26 and 35 years old. Their names have not yet been released but their bodies were
The US-based NGO Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged on Friday the Moroccan authorities to release Hamid Mahdaoui, director and editor-in-chief of the Badil.info news website, arrested on Thursday in Al Hoceima. «Moroccan authorities should release Hamid Mahdaoui and drop all charges against the journalist», said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program coordinator Sherif Mansour. «Journalists in Morocco should be free to report on matters of public importance
«Since the start of the Rif Hirak movement in October 2016, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented numerous violations of freedom of information.» Thus states a new press release published on Saturday, signed by the NGO and sent as an open letter to the Moroccan authorities and the international public opinion regarding the protest movement of the province of Al Hoceima. In particular, RSF denounced «the attitude of the Moroccan authorities which deliberately hinder
«Identity checks carried out by the national security services on Thursday in Al Hoceima led to the arrest of six people among the participants to a demonstration which was not registered with the public authorities and consequently banned». The local authorities of the city of Al Hoceima, quoted by the news agency MAP, said on Friday.«It has been found that the arrested persons had search warrants issued against them for cases of ordinary offenses», said the same
Al Hoceima's Court of First instance prosecutor ordered on Friday an investigation to clarify the circumstances under which a person currently at the Mohammed V Hospital in the same city has suffered a serious head injury. In a press release reported by the MAP news agency, the prosecutor said that the opening of this judicial investigation was ordered after the local jurisdiction's prosecutor's office was informed on Thursday evening that a demonstrator known as Imad El Attabi, and currently
Moroccan athlete Mohamed Amguoun set a new world record in the 400m competition in the T13 category for the visually impaired during the «World Para Athletics» championships held in London from the 14th to the 23rd of July. Amguoun, who gained a fifth gold medal for his country in the IPC Athletics World Championships, covered the distance in 46s and 92/100 ahead of Namibian athlete Johannes Nambala (48s 40/100) and Algerian Fouad Hamoumou (48s 65/100). Morocco is participating to
Le procureur du roi près la cour de première instance d'Al Hoceima a ordonné vendredi l'ouverture d'une enquête pour élucider les circonstances dans lesquelles une personne, se trouvant à l'Hôpital Mohammed V de cette ville, a été grièvement blessée au niveau de la tête. Dans un communiqué relayé par la MAP, le procureur a indiqué que l'ouverture de cette enquête judiciaire a
A Puerto Rican song, a Moroccan Youtuber and an American president, the three of these made it to the Internet thanks to Maestro Ziikos. After the success he achieved by making Barack Obama, USA's former president sing «I am in love with the shape of you» by Edd Sheeran, Zakaria Chaoui is back with another auto-tune hit. This time it is «Despacito», the streamed song with the highest audience at currently 4,6 billion views, Zakaria's version has been watched more than