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• Morocco Sends 130 Athletes to Compete in 15 Sports at Mediterranean Games in Algeria
  8 June 2022, by Ginette

  130 Moroccan athletes are participating in the 19th edition of the Mediterranean Games scheduled from June 25 to July 6 in Oran, Algeria. There are 86 men and 44 women as well as 48 supervisors.
  The Moroccan athletes participating in this competition will be divided into 15 sports disciplines, namely athletics, boxing, cycling, fencing, football, weightlifting, judo, karate, wrestling, petanque, boules sports, equestrian sports, taekwondo, tennis and sports shooting, said the Moroccan (…)

• Algerian Police Hunt 7 Moroccans in Illegal Immigration Network Bust
  20 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  After the arrest of four Algerians this week, Oran is on the trail of seven Moroccans. They are said to have set up an organization to organize illegal immigration trips, and operated through Facebook.
  According to the Algerian press, it is a specialized social media team, attached to the Judicial Police Brigade of Aïn El Turk (Oran), which discovered an organization that offered illegal immigration trips between Oran and Spain. Algerians and Moroccans were behind it.
  Determined to (…)

• Raï Music: The Cultural Bridge Uniting Morocco and Algeria Despite Closed Borders
  29 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  Raï music is a music that transcends the impermeable borders between Morocco and Algeria. At least that’s what writer Tawfiq Belfadel thinks.
  The closure of the border between Morocco and Algeria has apparently not ruined the relations between the two peoples. In the cultural sector, there are still common points that keep these two countries together.
  In an op-ed published on Marianne, writer Tawfiq Belfadel speaks about the subject without ambiguity. According to him, "Moroccans and (…)

• Morocco Boycotts Algerian Table Tennis Championship Over Disputed Western Sahara Map
  22 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  On arrival at the venue hosting this sporting event, the Moroccan delegation composed of two players and the representative of the federation’s board of directors "noted that the logo of this edition of the championship presented a map of the kingdom truncated of the southern provinces, displaying in their place the flag of the pseudo Rasd," the FRMTT said in a statement.
  This attitude of Algiers provoked the anger of the FRMTT representative. He "expressed his strong protests and sent a (…)

• Moroccan and Algerian Foreign Ministers Address Diplomatic Incident in Phone Call
  17 May 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita exchanged with his Algerian counterpart, Sabri Boukadoum, on Friday, May 15, on bilateral relations between the two countries. The two heads of diplomacy notably discussed the diplomatic incident in Oran.
  During the telephone conversation, the two ministers agreed that "this kind of affair is not settled on social networks, but between duly mandated officials to do so," reports Le 360.
  It all started with the meeting between the diplomat (…)

• Morocco U18 Advances to Mediterranean Games Semifinals, Edging Out Algeria
  1 July 2022, by Ginette

  The Moroccan under-18 football team has secured its ticket for the semi-finals of the Mediterranean Games taking place in Oran, Algeria. Against Spain, the Atlas Cubs managed a draw that allows them to qualify for the next round.
  Last Thursday, the Moroccan under-18 team snatched a draw against their Spanish counterpart (1-1), as part of the third day of the group stage.
  With this draw, Morocco totals 4 points, and finishes the group stage in second place behind France (6 points) and (…)

• Moroccan Boxers Clinch Gold and Silver at Mediterranean Games
  2 July 2022, by Ginette

  Friday, July 1st brought luck to the Moroccan boxers participating in the Mediterranean Games currently taking place in Oran. Two of them won two medals, including one gold.
  The Moroccan boxer Chaymae Rhaddi won the silver medal in the 60 kg boxing tournament on Friday, as part of the Mediterranean Games held in Oran.
  On the same day, the Moroccan boxer Mohamed Hamout won the gold medal, still in the under 60 kg category, by defeating the Frenchman Michel Grau in the final.
  This is (…)

• Algerian Family Hosts Stranded Moroccans for Ramadan Meal Amid Diplomatic Tensions
  20 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  An Oran family invited Moroccans to the Iftar meal during the month of Ramadan. The scene was immortalized by the Algerian television channel. Propaganda?
  These Moroccans and the Oran family discussed the bonds of friendship between the Moroccan and Algerian peoples. They shared this Iftar meal the day after the diplomatic incident in Oran, specifies ENTV.
  This report was broadcast a few days after the online release of a video that went viral. The Moroccan consul in Oran would have (…)

• Stranded Moroccan Workers Protest at Consulate in Algeria, Demand Repatriation and Aid
  2 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  More than thirty Moroccans still stranded in Algeria expressed their anger on Sunday, May 31, in front of the Moroccan consulate in Oran. And for good reason.
  The protesters are mostly seasonal workers from different wilayas in the west. The source of their outrage is two demands. They demand their repatriation to the kingdom and the financial assistance they were to receive from the Moroccan Consul General in Oran.
  The protesters told the newspaper Le Soir d’Algérie that Morocco had (…)

• Morocco Recalls Consul from Algeria Amid Diplomatic Tensions
  8 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  Following the diplomatic incident between Morocco and Algeria, the kingdom has recalled its consul in Oran, Aherdane Boudaher. The latter would have described the neighbor as an "enemy country".
  Aherdane Boudaher is no longer Morocco’s consul in Oran. He returned to Oujda on a special repatriation flight of 300 Moroccans stranded in Algeria due to the closure of borders.
  The recall of the consul follows a diplomatic incident between Rabat and Oran. In a video, Aherdane Boudaher would (…)