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Spanish media did not fail to highlight certain gaffes by King Felipe VI during the official visit he just made to Morocco, accompanied by his wife Letizia. And the mockery is rife...
MMA (Mixed martial arts), full contact or English boxing fighters, we often see them alongside King Mohammed VI. And not just those who have entered the legend. Names like Badr Hari or Mohamed Rabii, yes, but also the famous Abu Azaitar family, known for making careers in the rings and cages. The magazine Jeune Afrique has looked at the "ring stars who gravitate around the powerful".
A Moroccan living abroad was savagely attacked, Monday around 5 a.m. in Marrakech, by a criminal gang composed of three individuals, in the middle of the Gueliz district.
Residents of the Marrakech area gathered last Saturday in front of a guest house to prevent a marriage between two men. They alerted the authorities who arrested at least 8 people.
Sean Devlin was found guilty of verbally and physically assaulting Malika Touirtou, a 63-year-old Moroccan-American woman, on a train, before shouting that she had a bomb in her bag. He allegedly beat her up. A judge has just sentenced him, among other things, to 2 years in prison.
Several regions in Algeria have seen a large number of protesters take to the streets against Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to run for a fifth term. He is called "Bouteflika the Moroccan".
Mustapha Moâtassim , secretary general of the banned party Al Badil Al Hadari, has just announced that he was boycotting the pilgrimage because the revenues that the Saudi authorities would derive from it would be used to finance military operations in Yemen and to curry favor with the American president Donald Trump and his entourage.
Iraqi-Moroccan artist and singer Meriem Hussein received last Thursday an expensive Valentine’s Day gift, a luxury car worth around 2 billion Moroccan cents (a little over 250,000 euros). She also stated that it is the car of her dreams.
Morocco will host the 2019 edition of Phoenix Express, maritime security military exercises in the Mediterranean in which many countries in the region and some American (USA and Canada) and non-Mediterranean European countries such as Denmark last year participate.
Whether in the army or the police, many Moroccan women have achieved brilliant careers in Europe and America, even though these sectors were, not so long ago, almost exclusively reserved for men.
Despite a good performance with Celta Vigo (on loan from Southampton FC) Sofiane Boufal is strangely the second most substituted player in La Liga. There is only one match in which he was not substituted and which he played from start to finish.
Several hundred protesters gathered on Thursday evening at the call of pro-Palestinian organizations to protest against the arrival of Enrico Macias in Casablanca.