Meryame Kitir is the name of the Minister of Development Cooperation and in charge of Major Cities in the government of Alexander De Croo. Born to Moroccan parents who had emigrated to Belgium in the 1960s, the 40-year-old Flemish socialist grew up in Maasmechelen.
700 kilometers of walking, this is the operation initiated by undocumented immigrants to demand the regularization of their situation in France. Leaving Marseille on Saturday, September 19th, this march is heading to Paris where it is expected on October 17th.
Two Moroccan women were each sentenced to five years in prison for their involvement in a network specializing in immigration and sexual exploitation of young girls in Burkina Faso. This is the verdict handed down by the court of first instance of El Jadida.
The administrative court of appeal of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) confirmed on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 the legality of a decree by the prefect of Eure-et-Loir, who had refused in June 2019 to grant a residence permit to a Moroccan diabetic for appropriate medical treatment and had forced him to leave French territory.
Many Moroccan asylum seekers from the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) stranded in Ceuta are asking the government delegation for permission to go to the peninsula.
About twenty Moroccan minors living in the 18th arrondissement of Paris clashed on the Seine quay, near the MK2, on August 21. One of them was lynched and seriously injured.
The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 500 Moroccans residing abroad (MRE) . This is what Abdellah Boussouf, Secretary General of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad, affirms, on the eve of the National Migrant Day celebrated every year since 2003.
Among the 94 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the Maltese coast guard, more than two-thirds, including Moroccans, tested positive for the coronavirus.
The High Commission for Planning (HCP) has published the final report of the results of the first phase of the 2018-2019 international migration survey.
The number of foreigners naturalized in France increased in 2019. More than 112,000 foreigners became French, including 27,000 naturalized following a marriage to a French national.
Some 24,500 Moroccans obtained Spanish nationality in 2019, according to the latest figures published by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The Spanish government decided last Wednesday to extend the stay of foreigners whose permit has expired during the state of health emergency by six months.