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Morocco navy rescues 359 irregular migrants

The Moroccan navy has rescued 359 irregular migrants in the three days from Saturday to Monday, the official news agency MAP reported Tuesday. MAP quoted an unnamed military source as saying that the Coast Guard units intercepted and rescued 359 irregular migrants, including ten women and four children, who were on dinghies and that most of them are from sub-Saharan Africa. The Moroccan official explained that the rescued immigrants received the necessary first aid. […]

27 July 2022

International

Morocco to set up agency to regulate cannabis cultivation

Morocco has reportedly established a regulatory agency to oversee the country's cannabis cultivation for medical use. The decision was the outcome of a meeting on Thursday under the chairmanship of Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit and involved the board of directors of the National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis Activities (ANRAC) who approved the body's organisational structure and budget for this year. According to Africa News, the agency will be […]

6 June 2022

International News

Jared Kushner to lead US delegation to Israel and Morocco

White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner will lead a US delegation to Israel and Morocco next week for discussions on the normalisation deal the two Middle East countries reached last week, a senior US administration official said on Tuesday. The US delegation and an Israeli team will join together and take the first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Rabat as a sign of progress after the Israel-Morocco deal […]

16 December 2020

International News

Omar al-Bashir arrives in Morocco on visit

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted on genocide charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrived in Morocco late on Thursday for a "private" visit. Bashir arrived at Tangiers airport, accompanied by ministers and other senior Sudanese officials, according to the Le360 news site, considered close to circles in Morocco's royal court. The trip, announced a week ago in Sudanese outlets, has angered human rights defenders in Morocco, who called on […]

4 August 2017

International News

Moroccan police fire tear gas to disperse protests in north

Police fired tear gas and used truncheons to scatter hundreds of protesters in northern Morocco, a Reuters witness said on Thursday, part of the biggest wave of demonstrations in the kingdom since Arab Spring-inspired rallies in 2011. People have taken to the streets in the Rif region around the town of Al-Hoceima since October over injustice, corruption and underdevelopment, and on Thursday thousands gathered to try to join in rallies […]

21 July 2017

International News

Authorities stifle women’s protest in Morocco’s Rif

Moroccan authorities stifled a women's protest in the coastal city of Al-Hoceima, campaigning for access to jobs, health services and infrastructure in the northern Rif region. Police encircled hundreds of female protesters in a public park late on Saturday, impeding others from joining, as the women chanted "freedom, dignity and social justice," Reuters news agency reported. Female police officers and riot police pushed the leader of the protest Nawal Ben […]

5 June 2017

International News

Morocco king names new cabinet

After six months of post-election deadlock, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Wednesday named a new cabinet led by the main Islamist party, which lost a key ministry after protracted negotiations with rivals in the ruling coalition. The Islamist Justice and Development (PJD) party won elections in October, but the formation of a government was delayed during wrangling with parties who critics say were too close to royalists uneasy with sharing […]

6 April 2017

International News

Morocco sees ‘no turning back’ for climate pact

There is "no turning back" from a global accord to combat climate change, Morocco's foreign minister said on the eve of UN talks in Marrakesh, amid fears that US presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to pull his country out of the pact if he wins the upcoming election. "There is no possible turning back in the negotiation on what was agreed in Paris," Salaheddine Mezouar, who will preside at […]

7 November 2016

International News

Fishmonger’s gruesome death sparks protests in Morocco

Outraged Moroccan students in the northern city of Al-Hoceima boycotted schools on Monday and took to the streets in new protests over the gruesome death of a fishmonger, who was crushed to death inside a garbage truck in the city. Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was crushed to death in the truck on Friday, as he reportedly tried to protest against a municipal worker seizing and destroying his wares. An image of […]

1 November 2016

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