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El Pais’ dramatic portrait of Moroccan migrant unravels as social media reveals luxury lifestyle

A highly emotional testimony published by Spanish daily El País about a young Moroccan woman who swam into Ceuta during the mass crossings of late July has been sharply contradicted by her own social media history, which paints a picture of international travel, modelling work, and a comfortable urban lifestyle far removed from the narrative […]

The Laurent-Graciet case, this is like being in a bad movie, French FM

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius likened Sunday the case of the two French journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet who attempted to blackmail Morocco and its King Mohammed VI to a bad movie. “This is like being in a bad movie,” Laurent Fabius said in a first response by a French official to the case […]

WB Offers Morocco Precautionary Loan of $275 mln to Manage Disasters

Morocco and the World Bank inked a deal under which the North African country shall benefit from a precautionary line of 275 million dollars in the case of natural disasters. The deal was signed in Rabat by Finance Minister Mohammed Benchaaboun and Maghreb director at WB Jesko Hentschel. The World Bank had said in a […]