A French national is seeing her land rights transferred to the Moroccan state on six agricultural properties totalling more than 608 hectares. Two orders published in the Official Bulletin on October 5 detail the properties concerned in the province of Sidi Kacem.
A tanker carrying 40,000 tonnes of Russian diesel headed for Morocco after loading on Tuesday, October 13. The shipment comes days after an agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin aimed at restarting Russian fuel exports and lowering global prices.
Casablanca Finance City was expected to host 500 companies by 2025. A year after that deadline, the Moroccan financial hub has only about 300. Its leaders have now given themselves until 2030 to reach the target.
SpainOn the eve of the bilateral summit in Madrid, the Polisario Front has issued a severe warning to the Spanish government. The organization claims that the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara is only a step and that the next target of Rabat’s ambitions will be the Canary Islands archipelago .
FranceQualified Muslims are leaving France , but money is not their only motivation. Faced with a "racial ceiling" in the country, these graduates are seeking "existential relief" elsewhere. Sociologist Jaafar Alloul decodes this "status migration", where expatriation becomes the only way to match skills and social recognition.
MoroccoThe airline Volotea is consolidating its position as the leading operator at Strasbourg Airport by expanding its network to the south. The Spanish low-cost airline inaugurated, on the weekend of November 29 and 30, three new routes connecting the Alsatian capital, including one to the city of Agadir.
FranceThe University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne has finally succumbed to budgetary constraints by ending the exemption from tuition fees. This vote imposes a drastic increase on Moroccan and non-EU students, whose tuition fees will be multiplied by ten from the next academic year.
MoroccoRumors circulating on social media promise an easy passage to Ceuta for New Year’s Eve , but the reality on the ground will be quite different. The Moroccan authorities have triggered a lockdown plan for the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq to prevent any collective intrusion attempt.
SpainThe Spanish and Moroccan governments are meeting in Madrid on Thursday for a High-Level Meeting (RAN) with multiple stakes. While migration cooperation has shown spectacular results, there are still gray areas, particularly on the fluidity of trade at land borders, in a diplomatic context marked by Rabat’s advances on the Sahara issue.
MoroccoA Japanese tourist thought he was photographing nature near the Oum Er-Rbia river, but he found himself surrounded under the threat of knives. Robbed on Saturday evening, the traveler saw his assailants arrested the very next day by the gendarmes, who recovered all of his equipment.
BelgiumAlmost three years after the tragic death of Firdaous , 11 years old, the investigation is picking up again. The Antwerp police are now tracking down two figures from the criminal milieu and a vehicle, spotted at the scene of the tragedy thanks to information from Amsterdam.
SportThe Royal Moroccan Football Federation has registered two high-profile reinforcements from Europe. FIFA has validated the changes in sports nationality of Mounir Chouiar and Aymean el Hani , allowing their immediate integration into the A’ team in Qatar and the U20 world champions.
MoroccoThe rape trial of Saad Lamjarred was supposed to open this Monday, but the hearing has been postponed sine die for medical reasons. A delay deemed difficult to understand by the defense, which denounces the slowness of justice while counter-attacking on another legal front involving an attempted extortion.