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• Morocco Faces Shortage of Family Record Books as Summer Return Approaches
  7 April, by Sylvanus

  Anticipating the high demand for family record books as the season approaches for the return of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), the Ministry of the Interior is mobilizing civil status inspectors at the prefecture level in the various regions of Morocco. Currently, there is a real shortage of family record books.
  For many months, provinces and prefectures with a large number of local authorities and administrative annexes have been facing a shortage of family record books. This is (…)

• 13-Year-Old Moroccan Girl Gives Birth After Alleged Rape by Uncle, Sparking Investigation
  27 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  A 13-year-old child, raped by her paternal uncle, gave birth to a daughter, reports the daily Assabah. According to the same source, the baby was found near Douar El Hancha by a local resident. He immediately alerted the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Bouknadel.
  In turn, they took the newborn to the Souissi maternity ward of the Ibn Sina University Hospital in [Rabat]. An investigation was then opened, which brought to light this sexual scandal.
  The gendarmes quickly found the (…)

• Grenade Attack on Suspected Drug Traffickers’ Home Shocks Belgian Neighborhood
  21 October 2019, by Kamal

  Surveillance camera footage released by the Belgian federal police traces the course of a grenade attack targeting the home of a Moroccan family in the Antwerp region of Belgium.
  The attack, which took place on September 2, would be part of a settling of scores between drug traffickers, and apparently targeted a Moroccan family known in the region for its illicit activities.
  The video shows an individual riding a bicycle, unscrewing the tip of a grenade and pulling the string before (…)

• PSG Star Achraf Hakimi Pays Mother $100,000 Monthly, Showing Deep Family Bonds
  7 January 2023, by Sylvanus

  During the 2022 Qatar World Cup, the moments of love between Moroccan international Achraf Hakimi and his mother have moved supporters and internet users and testify to the attachment of one to the other. The PSG star takes care of his mother by paying her 100,000 euros per month in particular.
  The biggest fan of her son, the mother of Achraf Hakimi celebrated the various exploits of the Moroccan team at the 2022 World Cup. But the celebration that will have retained the most attention is (…)

• PSG Star Achraf Hakimi’s Marriage in Crisis Amid Rape Allegations
  5 March 2023, by Prince

  Hiba Abouk could end her relationship with Achraf Hakimi, accused of rape and indicted on Friday. Rumors of a separation of the couple have become persistent since the outbreak of this case last Monday.
  The couple officially announced their relationship in 2018 and got married in 2020 after having their first son, Amin. The second child, Naim, was born in February of last year. The rumor of a crisis in the couple had circulated at the beginning of the year, but Hiba Abouk had denied the (…)

• Morocco Prosecutes Over 3,000 for Adultery and Homosexuality, Report Reveals
  27 June 2019, by Bladi.net

  Based on the Annual Report on Criminal Policy of the Attorney General, the Spanish news agency, EFE, indicates that 3,048 people were prosecuted for "adultery offense" in Morocco in 2018. In addition, 170 people had to deal with justice, for homosexuality and 73 others for abortion.
  For the Spanish agency, EFE, these are all practices "sanctioned by Moroccan law", as part of "crimes against the order of the family and public morals". Recalling that adultery is punished by Article 491 of (…)

• Irish-Moroccan Teen Reunites with Long-Lost Father After Facebook Search
  5 September 2022, by Sylvanus

  18 years later, a young Irish-Moroccan woman has found her Moroccan father she did not know. A happy reunion for the Moroccan expatriate and his daughter.
  Raised by her mother, Caitlin McKinney, 18, did not know her father Bachir. Luckily, she found him on Facebook in 2020. Since then, they have started talking on the phone. "It was one of my dreams to meet my father one day. On every birthday, I blew out the candles and that was my wish," Caitlin confides. "When we started talking, I was (…)

• Moroccan Islamist Party Opposes Inheritance Equality in Family Code Reform
  3 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) led by Abdelilah Benkirane, is expressing its opposition to the reform of the Family Code. At least, for certain proposals.
  The PJD’s position is unambiguous. The demand for equality in inheritance matters is not to the liking of the Islamists. Following an extraordinary meeting of its general secretariat, the party stated in a press release that this demand is a "serious novelty that goes against the convictions of the Moroccan Muslim society (…)

• Morocco’s Fertility Rate Plummets: Urban Areas Near Critical Threshold
  20 March 2019, by Said

  The latest figures just published by the High Commission for Planning (HCP) are worrying: Moroccan women are having fewer and fewer children and this trend is expected to continue in the coming years.
  The concern is all the more acute as this decline in fertility also affects both urban and rural areas. Thus, the number of children per woman has dropped from 7.2 in 1960, shortly after independence, to 2.47 children per woman in 2004 before falling to 2.20 children in 2014. But in detail, (…)

• Former Moroccan MP Arrested for Allegedly Orchestrating Attack on Mother over Inheritance Dispute
  14 April 2019, by Amine

  A former parliamentarian (from the Constitutional Union) would have been arrested in the context of one of the most scandalous cases. He would have called a gang to invade his mother’s villa, assault her and then throw her out.
  For a sordid inheritance affair, a former parliamentary representative would have hired the services of a gang to attack his mother in the middle of her villa before throwing her out on the street, according to Al Akhbar. The same source specifies that he did this (…)