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European intelligence services requested their Moroccan counterparts’ assistance in a bid to protect tourist sites as holidaymakers prepare to assault European summer resorts and beaches. Threats of terrorist attacks are still clouding the European continent as arrests of militants of the Islamic State group (IS) continue to be on the rise. France, UK and Spain […]
French paper, L’Express, highlighted the role played by Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams in boosting Morocco’s clout in the continent and championing a moderate and tolerant Islam against the threat of extremism. Promoting the lofty values of tolerance inherent to Islam is a praiseworthy endeavor pursued by the Institute in a bid […]
European Intelligence agencies have warned Moroccan authorities to be on alert, pointing out that the country’s citizens fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria and Iraq are set to come back home to commit terrorist attacks. The security of the North African country could be in jeopardy as hundreds of […]
Italian car part maker, Sogefi, announced that it will build its first industrial site in Africa in Tangiers to manufacture two new models of engine filters “The plant, which will start operating at the beginning of 2018, will manufacture two different models of engine filtration systems (a metal diesel filter and an oil filtration module) […]
Spanish Interior Ministry Wednesday announced the arrest of a 43 year-old Moroccan man in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, for sending money to the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria. The man living in the village of Arbúcies was an important member of a network collecting money for militants of the terrorist group, with […]
Morocco reportedly asked Spain and Portugal to team up to organize the 2026 World Cup in a counter-bid challenge to competitors in North America: the US, Canada and Mexico. This joint candidacy is likely to gain support giving the symbolic act of organizing a world tournament between Africa and Europe in a context where Trump’s […]
A Morocco man was nabbed Thursday for threatening to blow off a train traveling from Barcelona to Figueres. https://twitter.com/SERCatalunya/status/837353944343019520/photo/1 The man who was on the train shouted out he would detonate a bomb, Spanish Europa Press reported citing passengers and train workers. The passengers alerted the Catalonia police which nabbed him at Gerona. Police reported […]
In a case of recidivism, Dutch Far-right leader Geert Wilders uttered racist statements against Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands calling them “scum” and telling his supporters at a political rally that he will “make the Netherlands ours again”. “The Moroccan scum in Holland … once again not all are scum … but there is a […]
Moroccan authorities recovered a stolen 17th century Baroque Italian painting worth up to six million euros and informed Italian authorities. Italian paper Gazzetta di Modena reported that the painting by Giovanni Francesco, known as Guercino, had been stolen from a church in the northern Italian city of Modena in 2014. It could have been recovered […]
Some 500 Sub-Saharan migrants stormed on Friday the border fence into the Spanish occupied enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco triggering clashes with the Spanish police. Several migrants were injured as they forced their way through a gate in the fence that separates Morocco from the Ceuta enclave. “The Civil Guard at Ceuta estimates that […]