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• Jordan Eases Visa Restrictions for Young Moroccan Women Travelers
  6 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  Less restrictions are now imposed on women aged 18 to 35 wishing to obtain their visa for Jordan. This is the result of consultations between Nasser Bourita, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), and his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman al-Safadi. The two men agreed on an agreement on the issuance of visas for Moroccan travelers, according to an authorized source of the MAECI cited by HuffPost.
  Last January, Mounia Semlali, a 28-year-old responsible for (…)

• Morocco Leads North Africa in Female Suicide Rate, WHO Report Finds
  14 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  Morocco is at the top of the ranking of North African countries with the highest suicide rate, which would be the highest among women.
  In its 2016 World Suicide Report, published on the sidelines of World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that in Morocco, 3.6 suicide deaths per 100,000 inhabitants are recorded among women.
  This statistical data thus places the Kingdom at the top of the ranking of countries with the highest suicide rate (…)

• Moroccan Models Fall Victim to Dangerous Cosmetic Surgery Scam in Turkey
  6 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  Many Moroccan models travel to Turkey in the hope of being operated on by aesthetic surgery specialists. However, once there, they discover a carefully orchestrated scam: it would be inexperienced nurses who operate on them.
  These Moroccan models discover that they have to entrust their bodies to amateurs operating in unauthorized "care centers", which would use dangerous and prohibited products, reports Assabah.
  The newspaper recounted the story of a young woman who was a victim of (…)

• Moroccan Diplomat Wins UN Human Rights Competition in New York
  12 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has rewarded Majda Moutchou, a Moroccan and member of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom to New York. She won the first prize in an international competition on human rights.
  This was a competition organized at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York and fiercely contested by candidates from several countries. In the end, the Moroccan woman emerged victorious, winning the highest distinction in this challenge, which was (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• Study: 30% of Young Moroccan Women Face Online Harassment, Minister Reports
  16 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development, Bassima Hakkaoui, presented this week in Rabat the results of the 2nd national survey on the prevalence of violence against women carried out by her department. It emerges that 13.4% of women in Morocco report having been victims of electronic violence.
  This 2nd national survey on the prevalence of violence against women carried out by the Ministry of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development was based on a sample of (…)

• Moroccan Breastfeeding Rates Plummet, WHO Reports Health Concerns
  5 August 2019, by Kamal

  Breastfeeding is declining sharply in Morocco. Less than one in four mothers manage to complete a two-year breastfeeding cycle, according to figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).
  On the occasion of the international breastfeeding week, the WHO has taken stock of breastfeeding in Morocco. 27% of mothers manage to breastfeed their newborn within an hour of birth, while 28% maintain breastfeeding during the first five months and only 43% during the first year.
  According to the (…)

• Far-Right Vox Party Criticizes Moroccan-Spanish Teen’s Beauty Queen Win
  20 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Spanish far-right party has once again made headlines on social media. Vox protested against the election of a girl of Moroccan origin as the new Queen of the Otura evenings.
  "Young Moroccan girl, living in Otura for two years," Vox had posted. This publication is adorned with a comment to say the least unpleasant: "Apparently in Otura there was no other girl from the city, Spanish otureña, and more beautiful..."
  It is this publication in which it is also indicated that the (…)