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A Dutch football legend has advised the Dutch football association, KNVB, to cease training young players of Moroccan descent over the case of young talent Mohammed Ihattaren now at the center of a showdown between Morocco and the Netherlands. Former AC Milan magic maker, Ruud Gullit, told Ziggo Sport TV channel that should Ihattaren play […]
The Dutch national team manager has brushed aside Morocco’s football association’s call to enroll 17-year-old Dutch-Moroccan player Mohamed Ihattaren to play for the Atlas Lions. Morocco’s new manager Vahid Halilhodzic has included the PSV Eindhoven midfielder in the national squad for the September friendlies with Burkina Faso and Niger but it is uncertain the player […]
Hague-based Dutch first flight football club, ADO Den Haag, has named Moroccan national Mohammed Hamdi as new Director General with the challenge to revive the club. The club’s main shareholder, Beijing-based United Vansen, appointed the 35-year old man after former manager Mattijs Manders left the club June 1st to become the Director General of the […]
Moroccan police and Customs have seized 493,700 ecstasy pills in Tangier Med Port, the biggest ever bust of this illicit substance in the North-African country. Three involved persons, including a woman, who were aboard a car registered in the Netherlands, were arrested. The drug was concealed in the car’s trailer. The haul confiscated is part […]
Morocco’s Justice Minister Mohamed Aujjar canceled a visit to the Netherlands against the backdrop of diplomatic tensions between the two countries after Morocco accused the Netherlands of meddling in its internal affairs. The Dutch Foreign Minister had submitted to his parliament a report describing the verdict against Rif activists as a “matter of concern.” The […]
Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita reiterated rejection of any interference in Morocco’s internal affairs after the Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok handed, few weeks ago, a report to Dutch Parliament on the events of the Rif . In the report, the Dutch foreign minister described the verdict against Rif activists as a “matter of concern.” The Foreign […]
Moroccan foreign Minister Nasser Bourita called at a meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s 9th Ministerial Plenary Meeting for continuing the fight against terrorism and extremism by addressing the root causes of these calamities. “Our approach should remain a strategic one, with a long-term perspective that goes beyond territorial victories to address the core foundations […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita on Friday summoned the Dutch Ambassador to Rabat to protest against the remarks made the previous day by Foreign Minister Stef Blok, deemed as a direct interference in Morocco’s internal affairs. Bourita made it clear to the Dutch ambassador that Morocco “rejects categorically and vigorously the Dutch Foreign Minister’s statement […]
Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita told his Dutch counterpart Stef Blok that freedom of speech and protest in Al Hoceima is a domestic issue and should not be part of any diplomatic agenda between the two countries. Blok, who paid a visit to Rabat last week, had made in a joint press conference with Bourita […]
Less than 24 hours after the horrendous crime that cost the life of an innocent medicine student in a popular cafe in Marrakech, the Moroccan police managed to arrest the two Dutch assailants. A statement of the Moroccan police said that investigations led to the arrest of two Dutch nationals, natives of Dominican Republic and […]