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King Mohammed VI’s visit last Wednesday to the old medina of Essaouira continues to arouse admiration within the Jewish community of Morocco and elsewhere. The Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin, has expressed his gratitude to the King for honoring with his presence this spiritual and heritage space for the preservation and enhancement of Judeo-Moroccan memory.
Outages disrupted the functioning of the WhatsApp messaging service in many countries, including Morocco, on Sunday, causing frustration among users. It was the DownDetector website that reported the failures very early on.
Two draft laws relating to the delimitation of borders will enter the legal heritage of Morocco as of this Wednesday. A ratification that comes two days before the visit to Morocco of the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzalez.
Animal protection associations had barely finished digesting the scandal of the massive killings of dogs in Dar Bouazza, when they were faced with the mass poisoning of 17 cats in the Oulad Ziane district. The massacre of these 17 cats took place on the night of January 15 to 16.
From January 25 to February 1, the Taghazout resort will see the world’s greatest surfing champions pass through its coasts. This is within the framework of the Pro Taghazout Bay which will be held at Pointe des Ancres.
The criminal chamber at the Casablanca Court of Appeal has sentenced a 31-year-old man, married and father of a child, to 10 years in prison. He is accused of assault and battery resulting in the death of his 28-year-old single and unemployed neighbor.
A man, the subject of eleven national arrest warrants for an internet fraud case, has finally fallen into the police trap. He was arrested on Thursday by the judicial police elements of Casablanca.
The far-right party, Vlaams Belang, has just filed a complaint against the municipality of Ghent regarding posters that would not respect the linguistic legislation in force. The posters in question inform the Turkish and Arabic-speaking communities about the low emission zone.
In turn, the persons prosecuted in the Hamza mon bb case are setting a date with the justice system to respond to their involvement or not in the case. The trial of the blogger Soukaina Jannah, alias "Soukaina Glamour", is scheduled for January 23.
The National Institute of Geophysics (ING) announced that the province of Nador , in northern Morocco, recorded a seismic shock with a magnitude of 3.0 degrees on the Richter scale.
Mediapart published an investigation that lays bare the sexual humiliations, homophobia and sexism in France’s top business schools. More than 500 graduates, both men and women, are complaining in a letter about these kinds of practices. They demand that this stop definitively out of respect for their rights as human beings.
Morocco is not done with the cold, snowfall and strong gusts of wind. The National Meteorology Directorate (DMN) announces cold weather, at the orange level, from Sunday, in several provinces of the Kingdom.