First Independent Mena Newspaper
Former star of FC Barcelona, AC Milan and the Brazilian selection, Ronaldinho Rivaldo, is on course to become the technical director of Chabab Mohammedia, a club of Morocco’s second division football league, the local club has said. “Rivaldo will sign his contract as technical director on June 9, during Ahmad Faras’s jubilee. Several former Barcelona […]
The Association of Friends of Morocco in Argentina (ASAMIMARG) has called on the international community to act to put an end to the hardships suffered by the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The Association, which includes academics, researchers, politicians, media professionals, economists and experts, denounced the Polisario brutal repression, abuse and ill-treatment […]
The Royal navy rescued 27 Sub-Saharan migrants on board a dinghy off the coast of Mehdya in the Atlantic Ocean. Nine women were among the migrants two of whom are pregnant, a military source told le360 news portal. About 80 percent of illegal migrants stopped in 2018 in Morocco were mostly Sub-Saharans with 29,715 migrants […]
The Tindouf camps in Southern Algeria are rocked by growing protests of the sequestered Sahrawis who are rising up against Polisario militias’ oppression, impunity, injustice, torture and systematic violations of their basic human rights. The separatists started feeling the heat after their Algerian masters were ousted by the popular revolt that is still ongoing. Things […]
The Vita couture-Diprints group has opened last week in the Tanger free zone two industrial units specializing in digital fabric printing and ready-to-wear clothing, for an investment of MAD 220 million. The “Diprints” factory, specializing in digital printing on fabric, is the result of a joint venture with the Spanish textile group Santandarina. The factory […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, made before the regional meeting of the UN Committee of 24 held in Saint George’s, Grenada, May 2-4, a presentation that focused on the historical realities, the legal bases and the political dimensions of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. The diplomat, insisting that the Sahara issue is […]
The Western Union Company, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, has appointed Moroccan Mohamed Touhami el Ouazzani as Regional Vice President and Head of North, Central and West Africa, to lead from Casablanca, Western Union’s business in the region with focus on expanding digital money transfer, reinforce the retail agent network and drive outstanding […]
Marrakech, the Red City, will soon be home to Morocco’s first intangible heritage museum, which will boost the city’s attractiveness to local and foreign tourists. The museum will be housed in the old central bank building in the mythical Jamaa EL Fna square, a cultural space listed on the UNESCO World heritage featuring street performers […]
Tunisian interior ministry has announced its forces slain three suspected Islamic State group (ISIS) terrorists in an operation 230 kilometers southwest of Tunis. The Ministry said, in a statement released Sunday evening, forces killed “three of the most dangerous terrorists” from the Jund Al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate), an ISIS-linked terror group, near the town […]
The leader of forces opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Sunday ordered the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) to step up fighting during the month of Ramadan, which has started this Monday, in their drive to seize capital Tripoli. Khalifa Haftar on an audiotape released by LNA spokesman ordered the east-based forces […]