Prévu samedi dans la capitale nigériane Abuja, le 52e Sommet de la CEDEAO devait être marqué par la possible adhésion du Maroc à la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Finalement, le royaume devra attendre l’année 2018 pour espérer intégrer l’organisation ouest-africaine. Contactée par Yabiladi, une source au ministère des affaires étrangères nous
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa is not giving Morocco an answer on its admission bid in its upcoming summit scheduled for the 16th of December in Abuja, Nigeria, an authorized source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation told Yabiladi on Friday. In fact, the Pan-African organization has decided to postpone deciding on Morocco’s application, the same source explained.
Le conseil de gouvernement, réuni jeudi, a adopté le projet de loi n°82.17 relatif à l'annulation des majorations, amendes, pénalités et frais de recouvrement afférents aux taxes, droits, contributions et redevances dus aux communes, préfectures, provinces et régions, a indiqué le ministre délégué chargé des Relations avec le Parlement et la société civile, porte-parole du gouvernement,
What is the estimated number of the Moroccan migrants detained in Libya? This question has left the Minister of Relations with Parliament, spokesman for the government silent during a press briefing organized on Thursday afternoon. Mustapha El Khalfi, on the other hand, announced that the commission in charge of the file is working on the 3rd repatriation operation but without giving more details. Last week, 235 Moroccan migrants returned home on two planes. Previously, 190 had also
The Sale anti-terror court has sentenced on Thursday, 14th of December, four individuals to between one and three years in prison over terror-related charges. The court also sentenced to one year in prison and fined two other defendants for praising terrorist attacks. Moreover, it has decided to postpone until January the 4th the examination of the case of eight people, including three women, prosecuted over terror links. These eight defendants are accused of «forming a gang as part of
The two young men who took part of the cell that carried the Catalonia attacks in August were secretly buried on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in their hometown, located in central Morocco. Younes Abouyaaqoub, along with his brother Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, were both shot dead in August, reports EFE news agency. The parents of the brothers asked that the bodies of their two children should be buried in Morocco and not in Spain. A request to which the Spanish judicial authorities
De nombreuses mesures ont été prises en vue de lutter contre les effets de la vague de froid qui sévit actuellement dans plusieurs régions du Royaume, dont la mise en place de commissions provinciales visant à désenclaver les zones affectées, a affirmé, jeudi à Rabat, le chef du gouvernement, Saâdeddine El Othmani. En application du Plan national de lutte contre les effets de la vague de froid, les autorités locales
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international NGO that promotes and defends freedom of information and press, released on Thursday, 14th of December, a communiqué calling for the release of Ali Anouzla, a journalist whose trial was postponed today. The organizarion also urged the Moroccan judicial authorities to «drop the serious terrorism charges» that are still pending since 2013. «The Moroccan judicial system's conspiracy against Ali Anouzla must
King Mohammed VI’s visit to the Nigerian capital, Abuja, has been canceled. Scheduled to the 16th of December, the sovereign is not participating to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), reports Ilaf, a London-based online newspaper. Quoting a diplomatic source, the same source stressed that the king is going instead on a working trip to Guinea Conakry next Monday. The summit was scheduled to be held in the Togolese capital of Lomé in the same period, but the
Scott Pruitt, an American Republican politician who is currently serving as the fourteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has just returned from a four-day trip to Morocco, reportes the Associated Press. During his trip to the kingdom, the official held talks with his Moroccan couterparts trying to promote the importing of natural gas. Arrived in the United States of America on Wednesday, 13th of December, Pruitt stated that the trip «allowed us to