In a video broadcast in a meeting organized yesterday in El Jadida, former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki stressed that the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will never forgive Morocco for allowing Islamists to head the government.
Dutch police arrested, Sunday, four people, foiling their attempt to spring a Mocro-Mafia prisoner known as Omar L., AFP reports. The suspects were trying to help the man escape the Zutphen prison, west of Amsterdam, after setting a van on fire, police said in a statement relayed by the French news agency. «It seems that an organized prison break had been attempted», Dutch police said, adding that «several persons tried to breach the prison, but the attempt was
In Turkey, the authorities arrested a man who has allegedly defrauded 600 Moroccan women after he was invited to a talk show last week. The man in question admitted on live television that he brought 600 women from Morocco to find them Turkish husbands. According to Turkish newspaper Haberler, M.S. said during the same talk show that he took money from these Moroccan women to find them Turkish husbands. «They paid me 50,000 dirhams to get them Turkish husbands», the 50-year-old
Once again, Algeria denounced the opening of African consulates in the Sahara. On Saturday, January 19, the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement that «the serious unilateral decision taken by Guinea and Gabon to open consulates in Western Sahara can under no circumstances legitimate the occupation of the territory». This statement comes after Guinea and Gabon opened consulates in the city of Laayoune and Dakhla on Friday, January 17. Their decision comes after
Born in Al Hoceima, Mohamed El Badaoui is a Spain-based scriptwriter and movie director. His love for his region, the Rif, pushed him to make several movies about the rural world in Morocco and the problems and challenges facing it inhabitants.
Ignoring the UN’s recent comments on respecting civilian and commercial traffic in Guerguerat, the Secretary General of the Polisario Front sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In his letter, Brahim Ghali noted with «surprise and dissatisfaction», the statement of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Africa Eco Race. «It is astonishing and utterly unacceptable that the United Nations has so far remained silent in the face of the
The Spanish authorities have located a Spanish-Moroccan jihadist near the borders of Turkey and Syria. 28-year-old man, M.Q., was arrested in Turkey based on an international arrest warrant issued by the National Court at the request of the counterterrorism Spanish authorities, Ceuta Actualidad reported on Thursday. After working for several years in the Balearic archipelago, M.Q. moved to another European country for professional reasons. There, he stayed until early 2017, before
Israel has recently issued a report stating that the value of property «Jews in Arab countries and Iran were forced to leave behind when they were expelled», stands at $150 billion. However, these demands are deemed «unfair» for Moroccan Jews who were not forced to leave the country.
Sentenced to life in one of Morocco’s best-known counterterrorism trials, a Belgian-Moroccan man has reportedly been held in «abusive solitary detention for more than three years», Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote on Friday. The international NGO, which recalls that the «mass trial in which he was convicted was marred by serious rights violations», added that the sentence imposed on Belgian-Moroccan convict Abdelkader Belliraj was based on his and
While it was accused of imposing a «fait accompli» policy in the province, Morocco sees in the opening of several consulates in the Sahara a new strategy that normalizes the country’s sovereignty on the territory. This strategy is expected to make of the cities of Laayoune and Dakhla political and economic hubs.