A recent study conducted by researchers from the universities of La Laguna (Tenerife) and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria reveals the existence of genetic links between the aborigines of the Canary Islands and the Moroccan populations of the colonial period.
A 25-year-old Moroccan died on July 29 at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria hospital where he was admitted in critical condition after suffering a violent assault. The Civil Guard has opened an investigation to try to identify the perpetrator(s) of the attack.
The Spanish Defense Ministry’s Española de Defensa magazine, in its July-August 2023 issue, publishes an article on the air surveillance squadron (EVA 11) located in Cadiz in southern Spain, near northern Morocco.
Smoke from the fires that ravaged the forests in Canada has reached Morocco and the Canary Islands and should mix with the haze on Thursday and Friday, causing temperature drops. The Canary regional authorities are on alert.
Spain has informed Morocco that the transfer of the management of the airspace of the Sahara will not take place. A decision that, according to some sources, would have led to the resumption of the kingdom’s claims on Ceuta and Melilla.
Passengers on a Royal Air Maroc (RAM) plane bound for Casablanca blocked the takeoff of the aircraft from the tarmac of Gran Canaria airport on Saturday to prevent the expulsion of a sub-Saharan migrant of Guinean origin.
The Moroccan Minister of Transport and Logistics, Mohammed Abdeljalil, confirmed in a letter to the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, the kingdom’s interest in reactivating the maritime line between the port of Rosario, in Fuerteventura, and Tarfaya.
Jamal HM and Rachid N. are two Moroccans accused of having transported 1,270 kilos of hashish from Morocco to the coast of Castillo de Romeral (Gran Canaria). The prosecution has requested a sentence of eight years in prison and a fine of 10 million euros for each of them for crimes against public health and membership in a criminal organization.
Meryem Assemlal, affectionately called Meri, is a divorced woman and mother of two children living in Santa Úrsula, a town in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where the Moroccan runs a bridal shop. An example of success despite prejudices.
Ignacio Cembrero considers Morocco to be "a dictatorship" comparable to that of the "Franco regime". The Spanish journalist discusses his legal disputes with the Moroccan authorities and provides a general analysis of the relations between Morocco and Spain.
Abdel Haouri, 31, is one of the many Moroccan migrants who were rescued at sea by the maritime rescue service (Salvamento Maritimo) on December 15, 2020, about 150 km south of Gran Canaria. Testimony.
The flow of migrants has dropped considerably since the normalization of relations between Spain and Morocco. In the first quarter of 2023, 4,287 migrants illegally arrived in the peninsula via the Spanish coasts or the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, a 50.9% decrease compared to the same period last year.