Third Mission to Repatriate Moroccans Stranded in Libya Begins
Rabat – Following a recent repatriation operation of Moroccan migrants stranded in Libya, a delegation landed once again in Tripoli, Libya on Saturday, December 16, to take fingerprints of about 265...
View ArticleNasser Zefzafi Potential Candidate for Sakharov Prize for ‘Freedom of Thought’
Rabat – Nasser Zefzafi’s father’s tour to Europe to campaign for his son’s release has borne fruit. The lead activist of the Hirak Rif movement has been announced as a potential candidate for the...
View ArticleMorocco’s Law on Violence Against Women: Between Fiction and Reality
Rabat – While Morocco’s Ministry of Family and Solidarity seeks to criminalize cyber-violence against women, feminists and social activists think that the government should rather focus on making sure...
View ArticleMoroccan Woman Wins USD 1 Million in ‘Al Holm’ TV Show
Rabat – A dream has come true for Naoual Akili, a Moroccan woman from Ouezzane, a town in northern Morocco, who has just won USD 1 million on the MBC program “Al Holm” (“The Dream”). Akili, who is a...
View ArticleInternational Migrants Day: Morocco Between Emigration, Migration, and Transit
Rabat – It has been 17 years now since the United Nations adopted December 18 as the International Migrants Day. While this year was marked by the tragedy of slavery in Libya, in Morocco, the soil is...
View Article65 Journalists Were Killed, Murdered While Doing Their Job in 2017
Rabat – While performing their job, 65 journalists were killed, 326 were jailed, 54 are currently held hostage and two are reported missing, worldwide in 2017. These chilling figures were uncovered by...
View ArticleAlgerian ‘Perturbed’ Salafist Vandalizes Historical Statue of Naked Woman
By Sana Elouazi Rabat – A “mentally challenged” man ransacked the statue of a naked woman, made by French sculptor Francis de Saint-Vidal in the city of Setif, north of Algeria. Wearing a long white...
View ArticleVideo: Alleged Algerian Soldiers Inhumanly Humiliate Sub-Saharan Migrants
Rabat – A video circulating on social media on Wednesday exposes alleged members of the Algerian army as they were forcing Sub-Saharan migrants to slap each others. The video shows three migrants...
View ArticleWoman Married Two Men in Central Morocco
Rabat – While Polygamy is a familiar practice in Morocco, polyandry is a term rarely heard of. A 24-year-old woman living in the rural commune of Ben Mansour, in Kenitra, has legally and happily...
View ArticleMinister of Family Wants Paternity DNA Test, Still Needs Courses in Family Law
Rabat – A somber expression on her face, head bent towards the microphone, Basima El Heqaoui’s revelation echoes loud and clear in the parliament. “I am in favor of fatherhood DNA tests,” she says. An...
View ArticleMarrakech Race to Promote Organ Donation
Rabat – “Running to save lives!” is the new slogan of Marrakech’s Mohammed V University Hospital Center, which wants to promote organ donation in Morocco. The hospital is holding this Sunday its first...
View ArticleBoy Who Loses Eye in Syria Conflict Sparks Solidarity Campaign on Twitter
Rabat – Karim, a three year old boy whose mother was killed in the violence in Syria, lost his left eye and suffered serious scars during attacks on the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta. A...
View ArticleThis is How King Mohammed VI Sees Future Moroccan Cities
Rabat – For King Mohammed VI, Morocco strives to build smart cities without slums, with clean environment and with a spirit of creativity, civilized conduct, tolerance and cooperation to better serve...
View ArticleEffective Ways to Promote Your Brand on Social Media
Rabat – Unless you have been living in a cave for the past couple years, you probably already know that social media is all the rage. Everyone from large corporations to the president of the United...
View ArticleMorocco Launches Water Police to Supervise Use of Water Resources
Rabat – Morocco has established a new police unit that will be entrusted with supervising the use of water resources in the kingdom. First established in 1995, the water police will finally become...
View ArticleIsraeli Military Arrests the Teenage Voice of Palestinian Resistance Ahed Tamimi
Rabat – The 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, who became the face of Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank, was arrested by Israeli forces during a raid on her home in the early morning of December...
View ArticleMoroccan Police Officers to Use Body-Worn Cameras by 2018
By Sana Elouazi Rabat – The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced that almost 5,000 front-line police officers across Morocco will be equipped with body-worn cameras, by the...
View Article50% of Pregnant Women in Rural Areas Risk Dying during Pregnancy
Rabat – At a chilling rate, 50 percent of pregnant Moroccan women living in rural areas risk dying because of the lack of medical supervision, said the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in a...
View ArticleEssaouira’s Police Arrest Two Drug Dealers in Possession of 27 Kg of Hashish
Rabat – Essaouira’s security elements arrested on Thursday two drug dealers in possession of about 27 kilograms of cannabis, reported Maghreb Arab Press (MAP). One of the Hashish dealers was arrested...
View ArticleThree Germans Killed in Road Accident Between Essaouira and Agadir
Rabat – Three German nationals, living in Morocco, died in an accident on Saturday on the national road number 1 between Essaouira and Agadir, in the commune of Aourir. Three French nationals were...
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