The Spanish market is buying more Moroccan watermelons, but their average price is falling. The 2025-2026 figures show a sharp drop in the value of purchases despite an increase in shipments. The Kingdom remains Spain’s leading foreign supplier.
Arrested in Khémisset on a French warrant and then transferred to France, a man has been awarded 100,900 euros in compensation after being acquitted. The Rennes Court of Appeal ruled that 790 days in detention qualified for compensation under a provision of the extradition treaty between France and Morocco.
Since October 25, the time difference between Paris and Casablanca has been one hour, not two. France turned its clocks back, while Morocco remains on GMT. For Moroccans living abroad, family calls, meetings and travel now require a new sense of timing.
BelgiumThe police have managed to arrest a second suspect in the "narco-assassination" of Nordine, a 49-year-old father shot dead at the foot of his building in Anderlecht on June 5th.
MoroccoCasablanca is undergoing a transformation in preparation for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2030 World Cup. The economic capital of the kingdom is gradually presenting itself as a "smart city" in the image of Dubai.
MoroccoParliamentary groups criticize the Minister of Investment and Convergence of Public Policies, Karim Zidane, because of what they have described as the "low" participation of Moroccans living abroad in investments.
MoroccoMorocco has just lost one of the greatest monuments of Amazigh culture. Moroccan artist Benasser Oukhouya passed away on Friday, July 11, 2025, at the age of 86.
MoroccoSwitzerland warns its citizens planning to travel to Morocco about the risk related to rabies. In late June, a Swiss tourist on vacation in Agadir died after being bitten by a stray dog in the Taghazout area, north of the city.
SportUnder the influence of alcohol, the Belgian-Moroccan Sofian Kiyine, former football player of Oud-Heverlee Louvain (OHL), caused a new spectacular accident, thus breaking his commitments. However, he benefits from a mitigating circumstance: the judges will not take this new accident into account during the appeal trial.
MoroccoIn an interview, the French journalist and presenter of Moroccan origin Anissa Haddadi recounts her summer vacations in Morocco.
MoroccoThe trial of the driver of an off-road vehicle, a 4x4 towing a jet ski, who hit on Sunday, June 15, a 4-year-old girl on the beach of Sidi Rahal, south of Casablanca, as she was playing in the sand, just a few meters from the water, continues before the court of first instance of Berrechid.
FranceEntrenched in his home, on the second floor of a building in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), a man of Moroccan origin started shouting from his window in the middle of the night, threatening to blow up the building with a gas bottle.
FranceLargely unknown a few years ago, a very popular Arabic name in Muslim countries is entering the ranking of the 100 most given names in France for the first time in 2024.