The airline Ryanair has decided to suspend 19 lines this summer in Lisbon, including two to France and two to Morocco. This decision is due to the refusal of the Portuguese government to distribute the "blocked" flight slots of TAP Air Portugal.
A family from Algarve, Portugal, traveling in a caravan, has been blocked in the city of Ceuta for three weeks. On a humanitarian trip to Ethiopia, they are asking for the reopening of the Moroccan borders to allow them to continue their journey.
The Spanish police dismantled a hashish trafficking network from Morocco to Portugal, active for five years. In total, two people were arrested and 172 kilos of hashish seized.
Lahoucine Aourik, a Franco-Moroccan businessman, plans to invest in a large real estate project initiated by the Spanish real estate developer Kronos Homes.
Benfica Lisbon wants to get rid of its midfielder, Moroccan international Adel Taarabt . The Portuguese club is just waiting for an acceptable offer.
Morocco and Portugal have decided to strengthen their cooperation by signing an agreement on the employment and stay of Moroccan workers in Portugal.
At least 90,000 descendants of Sephardic Jews have become citizens of Portugal or Spain since 2015, after these countries adopted laws granting them the right to citizenship.
Some 5,760 Moroccans stranded abroad have already been repatriated from the United Arab Emirates, Portugal and Turkey, said Mustapha Baitas, the delegate minister in charge of Relations with Parliament, government spokesman.
Following the decision of the Moroccan authorities to end the system put in place to allow the return to Morocco of Moroccans who actually reside there and who have recently left the national territory as of December 23, the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has scheduled three new special flights subject to authorization departing from Portugal and Turkey and bound for Morocco this week.
The national airline has updated the eligibility conditions for special flights departing from the United Arab Emirates, Portugal and Turkey to Morocco in order to allow the return to the kingdom of other Moroccans residing there who have recently left the national territory.
Following the announcement of the suspension of special flights to repatriate Moroccans stranded abroad from December 23, the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) plans to operate new flights (subject to special authorization) on December 20 and 21, 2021 between Morocco and Portugal in both directions.
The Interministerial Committee for Monitoring Covid has chosen Portugal, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey as departure countries to repatriate Moroccans stranded abroad , due to their geographical location and the evolution of the pandemic in these countries.