First Independent Mena Newspaper
King Felipe VI of Spain has extended his warmest greeting to King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of his accession to the throne. In his message of congratulations, the Spanish Sovereign expresses, on his own behalf and on behalf of the Spanish government and people, his best wishes for happiness and […]
A vocational training institute in Rabat is set for a major upgrade under a new 19.03 million dirham project designed to help young people learn technical skills and find jobs in Morocco and Germany. The project is led by the Chamber of Crafts of the Rabat-Sale-Kenitra region with support from the German-backed Invest for Employment […]
Morocco looks forward to producing power from solid waste and turning a landfill into source of energy to speed up its transition to clean economy. To achieve this goal, Moroccan authorities have signed a concession agreement with Swiss-Japanese firm Kanadevia Inova and its partners for the development of the Casablanca Solid Waste Treatment and Valorization […]
Morocco remains a sovereign and reliable partner in efforts to combat irregular migration and has never acted under pressure or coercion in managing migration flows, a senior government source said on Monday. The statement was made after about 40,000 crossed into Ceuta in a major crossing that left 11 people dead, according to Morocco’s interior […]
Anti-migrant demonstrations spread across parts of Spain over the weekend in the wake of the mass crossings into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, with far-right activists and protesters increasingly directing their racism at Moroccans. At the port of Algeciras on Sunday, hundreds of Moroccan families travelling from France, the Netherlands and other European countries passed […]
Tens of thousands of Moroccan youth debunk myth of EU eldorado in occupied-CeutaMany of the Moroccan migrants who rushed into Spain’s colony of Ceuta last week have returned home, describing how hopes of a better life in the EU quickly dissolved into hunger, uncertainty and disappointment. Among those heading back were not only unemployed youths […]
Spain cannot maintain relatively open and regularization-friendly migration policies at home while expecting Morocco to shoulder the full burden of preventing irregular crossings into Ceuta and Melilla. The mass influx into Ceuta last week has exposed the contradiction at the heart of Madrid’s approach. Domestic pull factors generated by Spanish decisions helped fuel the surge, […]
Following the recent events at the border crossings leading to Sebta and Mellilia enclaves, the Ministry of the Interior affirms that various data collected and analyzed unveil that these events are not due to circumstantial or spontaneous factors, but rather the result of several intertwined factors’ interplay, foremost among which the biased exploitation of the […]
This week’s mass crossings into the Spanish-held enclave of Ceuta have exposed an enduring colonial reality often ignored in mainstream media. Spain continues to occupy Moroccan soil, denying Moroccans free movement on their own territory and enforcing artificial barriers that generate human tragedies like the one that has unfolded this week. Between Thursday and Friday, […]
The bulk majority of the near 60,000 migrants- mostly young Moroccans- who crossed into the Spanish-held enclave of Ceuta this week have streamed back home. Their hopes of a better life in Europe were crushed by hunger, hostility, violence and the harsh realization that conditions on the other side of the colonial barrier were worse […]