Divorce

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• Moroccan Singer Samira Saïd Reveals Career Conflicts Led to Divorce
  19 August 2019, by Kamal

  The main reason, according to the Moroccan singer, is the nature of their work. She stated that professional problems ruined their married life, making cohabitation impossible.
  She added that her ex-husband, who was a pianist and led his music orchestra, always tried to impose his instrument, to the detriment of the singer’s career, writes Alyaoum24.
  Samira Saïd also said that her ex-husband was jealous and often criticized her during the musical evenings she hosted. She was tired of (…)

• Moroccan Minister’s Divorce Finalized Following Paris Scandal
  24 January 2019, by Said

  The Salé court has just pronounced the divorce of the Minister of Employment and Professional Integration Mohamed Yatim, at the heart of a scandal a few months ago after his appearance hand in hand with his fiancée in Paris.
  The divorce was pronounced yesterday, Wednesday, reports the Hespress website, specifying that he will have to pay around 300,000 dirhams to his ex-wife as compensation.
  In a video posted on social media last September, the minister from the Party of Justice and (…)

• Moroccan Man on Trial for Wife’s 2015 Murder in Paris Suburb
  18 February 2019, by Said

  The trial of Brahim J, accused of having killed his wife in 2015 in the Paris region, before throwing her body into a canal, opens this Monday before the Assize Court of Val-d’Oise. The man of Moroccan origin faces life imprisonment.
  Now 37 years old, the man described as jealous and possessive by the investigators quoted by the newspaper Le Parisien, had admitted to having killed his wife, Hafida, after an argument that went wrong. "She annoyed me. So I hit her, and I killed her. I (…)

• Egyptian Star Tamer Hosny’s Divorce: Moroccan Singer Jalila Denies Involvement in Split
  29 April 2023, by Said

  In the media turmoil surrounding the recent separation between Egyptian star Tamer Hosny and his wife Basma Boussel, the Moroccan Jalila finds herself at the heart of the speculation, despite herself. Rumors are circulating, suggesting that a love affair between Jalila and Tamer Hosny would have caused the dissension within the couple.
  Faced with this storm, Jalila has decided to break the silence and speak out on this matter. "Regarding Tamer Hosny’s separation, I want to make it clear (…)

• Moroccan Singer Faces Backlash After Comments on Ex-Husband Tamer Hosny
  11 February, by Prince

  Moroccan singer Bassma Boussil is facing fierce criticism from Egyptian netizens after revealing the reasons for her separation from her ex-husband, Egyptian singer Tamer Hosny.
  These netizens, mostly women, have attacked Bassma Boussil on social media, accusing her of tarnishing the image of her Egyptian ex-husband, whom she presented as an "unfaithful and narcissistic" man, while he contributed to her fame on the Arab scale and supported her in creating her cosmetics brand, which brings (…)

• Moroccan Woman Brutally Attacked by Ex-Husband After Seeking Divorce
  15 January 2019, by Said

  Khadija owes her life only to the intervention of her mother and a few passers-by. Furious at her request for divorce, her ex-husband attacked her with a razor.
  After a few years of marriage and following several disputes, the young woman decided to initiate divorce proceedings and return to her parents’ home, but her husband does not see it that way.
  After repeatedly asking her to return to the marital home and end the divorce proceedings, the husband attacked her near Berrechid just (…)

• Belgian Man Gets 8-Year Sentence in Morocco for Alleged Family Sexual Abuse
  9 September 2022, by Ginette

  A Belgian national was sentenced on Thursday to eight years in prison by the Meknes Court of Appeal for sexual abuse within the family. The accusations were brought against him by his ex-wife, of Moroccan origin.
  Since his arrest, Marc Moerman has always denied the facts, stressing that he has been the victim of a trap set up from scratch by his in-laws who are pursuing purely financial objectives. On April 14, the 58-year-old father had been sentenced in the first instance by the Meknes (…)

• Morocco Debates Alimony Reform: Women’s Groups Protest Proposal for Higher-Earning Wives to Pay Ex-Husbands
  10 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  Women’s associations are up in arms against the reform of Abdelatif Ouahbi, Minister of Justice, imposing on women with higher incomes than their spouses to pay alimony to their ex-husbands after divorce.
  Abdelatif Ouahbi’s desire to promote "true parity" between men and women is meeting with resistance. In an interview on the Moroccan channel 2M last week, the minister suggested that women with higher incomes in the couple should pay alimony (Nafaqa) to their husband in the event of (…)

• Morocco Considers Reforms to Family Code After 15-Year Review
  10 February 2019, by Amine

  Just 15 years after the entry into force of the Moudawana, the Family Code, Mohamed Aujjar, Minister of Justice, declared last Friday that his ministry was carrying out a comprehensive and objective evaluation to consider possible reforms.
  On the occasion of the 3rd Forum of Moroccan Expatriate Lawyers, the Secretary General of the Ministry, Abdelilah Lahkim Bennani, read on behalf of the Minister an address, at the opening of a Conference on "The Family Code in the light of Comparative (…)

• Moroccan Man Discovers 30-Year Infertility After Fathering Eight Children
  12 January 2020, by Kamal, Sylvanus

  While he is the father of eight children, three of whom have died, a fifty-year-old man living in a douar near Kelaâ des Sraghna, discovers, to his great surprise, his state of sterility after 30 years of marriage.
  At the origin of this discovery, an embarrassing allegation from the fifty-year-old’s brother about one of his daughters, the youngest. Complaining about his child’s behavior to his brother, the latter revealed a secret to him: his children were not his.
  Confused, he (…)