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On the occasion of the celebration of Throne Day, King Mohammed VI delivered a speech that blamed public officials for their low performance and for the delay witnessed in the implementation of a set of social projects in Morocco’s different regions. The speech was in line with the aspirations of the Moroccan citizen to an […]
King Mohammed VI has granted Royal Pardon to 1,178 inmates on the occasion of Throne Day, celebrating the Monarch’s enthronement, it was officially announced on Saturday. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, the list of the 1,178 pardoned inmates includes some of the protesters who were arrested on the sidelines of […]
France 24 TV channel has apologized following protests by Morocco after the channel broadcasted images of protests in Venezuela purporting they happened in Morocco’s northern town of Al Hoceima. The French news broadcaster said the images were a technical failure that was addressed in the following news hour. Morocco’s ministerial department in charge of the […]
Morocco’s national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) is to launch as of July 10 two new flights to the port city of Al Hoceima, in the restive Rif region at the request of the tourism ministry. The two new flight routes; Casablanca-Al Hoceima and Tangier-Al Hoceima will be operational next Monday, in a move to […]
King Mohammed VI criticized, at the Ministers’ Council he chaired in Casablanca on Sunday, several ministers for the delay in the delivery of a set of development and social projects included in the Al Hoceima Lighthouse of the Mediterranean program. Long before the wave of popular protests outbroke in the Rif, King Mohammed VI Launched […]
A ministerial delegation has arrived in Al Hoceima Monday to inspect the progress made in social and economic projects that were launched in the region in a bid to defuse tension and speed up the pace of the projects completion, le360 news website reported. The delegation landed in AL Hoceima in the wake of a […]
Thousands of Moroccans staged Sunday a peaceful demonstration in downtown Rabat to express solidarity with Al Hoceima inhabitants’ social claims. The protesters, between 15,000 (according to official numbers) and over 30,000 (according to the organizers), marched through the avenues of downtown Rabat, chanting slogans calling for meeting the social and economic demands of Al Hoceima’s […]
Investigations led by the judiciary police as part of the probe on the latest unrest that battered the northern Moroccan town of Al Hoceima revealed the involvement of the protest leader, Nasser Zefzafi, in receiving funds from foreign sources with a view to undermine public order. The Assabah newspaper, noted that the judicial police, upon […]
Moroccan authorities arrested, on Monday morning, Nasser Zefzafi, the fugitive leader of the protests that have been shaking the northern town of Alhoceima for more than six months. Zefzafi, 39, was on the run since Friday when the General Prosecutor ordered his arrest after his interruption of a Friday sermon at a local mosque. Zefzafi […]
The Moroccan police is on a manhunt to arrest Nasser Zefzafi, the leader of the popular protests in the northern town of Al Hoceima, following his interruption of a Friday sermon at a local mosque. The general prosecutor ordered the arrest of Zefzafi and the opening of an investigation in line with Article 222 of […]