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• Survey: Majority of Moroccans Support Hijab in Public Spaces
  14 April, by Said

  A survey conducted by the Menassat Foundation for Social Research and Studies reveals that a majority of Moroccans are in favor of wearing the veil in public spaces.
  Titled "Women, public space and individual freedoms!", this survey presents data on Moroccans’ opinions regarding the wearing of the hijab and women’s freedoms. Thus, we learn that 66.8% of participants declare themselves in favor of women wearing the hijab in public spaces. According to the study, this support is linked to (…)

• Cycling Star Remco Evenepoel Weds Childhood Friend and Belgian Influencer Oumi Rayane
  10 January 2023, by Prince

  Cyclist Remco Evenepoel married last year to Oumaïma "Oumi" Rayane, a Belgian influencer of Moroccan origin who is actually his childhood friend.
  The 22-year-old woman has followed Evenepoel’s, also 22 years old, sports career from the beginning and has always supported him. The two have been a couple since 2017, but their relationship has not always been harmonious, reveals Offside, revealing that Remco and Oumi had to separate in August 2019, the athlete having decided to move to Monaco (…)

• Controversial Salafist Preacher Exposed for Illegal Fifth Marriage in Morocco
  19 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  Salafist preacher Mohamed Fizazi is currently at the center of a controversy for having contracted a fifth marriage. The famous preacher did not hesitate to circumvent the law to celebrate another union.
  Cheikh Mohamed Fizazi’s trick was to offer his fifth wife a "contract". Thinking to seal this marriage in complete secrecy, and in violation of the family code, he was discovered.
  The contract was published on social networks without his knowledge. It is written in black and white that (…)

• Belgian Cycling Prodigy Remco Evenepoel Wins Vuelta at 22, Celebrates with Moroccan Fiancée
  12 September 2022, by Prince

  The 22-year-old Belgian Remco Evenepoel won the cycling tour La Vuelta Ciclista a España in Madrid on Sunday. His fiancée of Moroccan origin, Oumaima Oumi Rayane, was on site to congratulate him.
  With this victory, Remco Evenepoel becomes at 22 the youngest winner of this tour since 1961, reports Hola.
  His fiancée of Moroccan origin, Oumaima Oumi Rayane, was by his side to celebrate this feat. The two lovers exchanged kisses and hugs, in front of the reporters who immortalized this moment.

• Moroccan Woman Sentenced to Life for 2012 Murder of Husband Buried in Garage
  23 May 2024, by Prince

  The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tétouan has just sentenced a Moroccan woman to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
  The judicial police of Tétouan announced on May 31, 2023 the arrest of a woman and her brother for their alleged involvement in the murder of the woman’s husband, which occurred in 2012 at the couple’s home in the Oued El Maleh neighborhood in Martil. The two suspects would have buried the victim’s body in the garage of the house before reporting (…)

• 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 (…)

• Moroccan Woman’s Mission: Bringing Warmth to Atlas Mountain Villages
  1 April 2021, by Ginette

  In Tazarin as in the Berber villages located in the High Atlas in Morocco, it is difficult to get through the winter without a blanket. Aïcha Errazani has understood this well, and is fighting to make it easier for the inhabitants who are often not equipped to face the harshness of the weather. The young woman, who has part of her family still living in one of these villages, Tazarin, has set up an association to provide polar blankets and other winter equipment to the villagers.
  Called (…)

• Baby Trafficking Ring Exposed: Moroccan Mothers Selling Infants to Spain and France
  7 February 2020, by Ginette

  Non-governmental organizations denounce and call on the authorities to fight the growing trafficking of babies in Ceuta, Melilla and France. Indeed, single mothers, for 70,000 dirhams and more, engage in the sale of their babies, with the help of trafficking networks that particularly target single mothers.
  According to the daily Assabah, these baby trafficking networks, born to single mothers, operate with impunity and without any concern. The phenomenon has become so widespread in (…)

• Moroccan Woman Alleges Rape and Forced Prostitution by Couple in Spain; Prosecutors Seek 21-Year Sentence
  7 June 2022, by Prince

  The public prosecutor’s office of the Saragossa court has requested Monday 21 years in prison against the Moroccan Mohamed A. and his companion, Elena Loredana N., accused by a woman of Moroccan origin of having stolen her, sexually assaulted her and even forced her into prostitution.
  The plaintiff studied and worked in Germany before settling in Spain where she met the couple who would have offered her help. "When I arrived in Saragossa in January 2018, I didn’t speak a word of Spanish. (…)

• 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 (…)