The UN Fifth Committee approved earlier this week the MINURSO’s budget for 2019/20. The approved budget is higher than the one allocated to the peacekeeping mission in the previous year. This decision comes amid the United States’ UN cuts.
On Friday, July 5, jailed journalist Taoufik Bouachrine couldn’t attend a hearing of his appeal against a previous conviction, due to health issues, Arabic-language newspaper Alyaoum24 reports. The information was also confirmed by his lawyer, who told the same source that his client suffered from an «unbearable stomach ache». The same source indicates that a doctor checked him up and stressed that he is unable to attend the hearing. Bouachrine, who owns newspaper
«We are physically and mentally ready to face Benin and we must help our coach implement his plans», said Moroccan footballer Mbarek Boussoufa, Thursday, in Cairo. «We are suffering from heat in Egypt, but we are ready for [Friday’s] match and we will ignore the weather», he told reporters during a press conference attended by coach Hervé Renard. «We have all been criticized after the first game but we ignored all the critiques and worked hard to
During the 19th century, the North region of the United States fought against slavery and the states that wanted to maintain the practice. Denouncing the heinous system, American senator Charles Sumner compared slave-holding states to Morocco, where slavery was a common practice.
To Atlas Lions’ coach Hervé Renard said that the Algerian team is the best performing squad at the Africa Cup of Nations, AFP reports. «I think there will be a lot of observers who will agree with me», Renard said on Thursday in a press conference held ahead of the Lions’ game against Benin. «I think up until now Algeria have been the best team at this tournament, notably in the match against Senegal where they performed very, very well», he
Young Sahrawis in Tindouf set a police car on fire, Wednesday, to protest against the kidnapping of three activists. While pro-Polisario media claimed that the act was carried by a «criminal group», an office for the Sahrawi community settled down in Europe alleged in a communiqué sent to Yabiladi that «Morocco could be behind these acts». «The incident in Tindouf took place after the family members of Sahrawi activist Abba Bouzeid held a meeting to
After two Latin American countries announced that they are withdrawing recognition of «SADR», the Polisario rushed into naming a new «ambassador» to Bolivia, a central South America state. According to the Front’s news agency (SPS), Mohamed Salem Daha Lehbib was received, Wednesday, by Bolivian President Juan Evo Morales. Daha Lehbib «expressed his satisfaction for the meeting, which he described as a sign of Bolivian solidarity and support for the Saharawi
Earlier this week, the Speaker of Morocco’s House of Representatives visited Russia, where he met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and North Africa. The latter addressed the Western Sahara dispute in an ambiguous statement.
American aerospace company Boeing has announced that it is giving $100 million to help those who lost their loved ones in the two crashes of the company’s 737 Max planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, BBC reports. The financial contribution suggested by Boeing is expected to support the families of the victims who were affected by the ill-fated Ethiopian Boeing 737 Max 8. Two Moroccan nationals lost their lives in the crash which took place on March the 10th. In a statement released
Carabinieri in Milan arrested 34 members of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organized crime group based in Calabria, Italy. One of the suspects is a Moroccan national who was arrested during a coordinated crackdown on the criminal group. On Thursday, Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda recalled that the mob is the strongest in Italy and Europe and it is monopolizing economic activities in Milan, Varese, Malpensa and its surroundings. Following the raid against members
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