
Self-Proclaimed 'Mahdi' Arrested After Disrupting Mosque Sermon in Marrakech
A man who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messianic figure in Islamic eschatology, during a Friday sermon, was arrested by the worshippers and then handed over to the police.
Sébastien A.

A man who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messianic figure in Islamic eschatology, during a Friday sermon, was arrested by the worshippers and then handed over to the police.

The Moroccan currency appreciated by 0.29% against the euro and remained almost stable against the US dollar, during the period from May 12 to 18. This is what the indicators published by Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) specify.

China has sent an important batch of 13-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine to Morocco on Saturday. Enough to protect Moroccan children against pneumococcal infections.

The 22-year-old Moroccan fighter Mohammed Boutasaa defeated the Georgian kickboxer Davit Kiria on Friday, May 20, at the One 157 event held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang.

In Casablanca as in other Moroccan cities, car guards continue to have inappropriate, even aggressive, behavior towards motorists.

Suspended for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Marhaba operation has been relaunched to the delight of Moroccans residing abroad who are returning to the country to spend their holidays with family or to see their parents, but also to tourism professionals who have long awaited this decision. This will help revive Moroccan tourism, which has been hit hard by the health crisis.

The "Échange Air Maroc 2022" exercise between the Mirage 2000 of the French Air and Space Force and the Mirage F1 of the Royal Air Force began on Monday, May 16, 2022. It aims in particular to strengthen military aeronautical cooperation between the two entities.

During a visit by Prince Rainier III to New York at the end of 1955, the mother of American star Grace Kelly, who became Princess Grace of Monaco, made a slip by mentioning "Prince of Morocco" instead of "Prince of Monaco".

Belgium has revised the tax on real estate owned by Belgians or Belgian-Moroccans abroad. Here’s what’s changing.

A BBC journalist who was about to return to the United Kingdom by air has denounced the non-compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Morocco and the ambiguous message from a nurse.
The artist Hajja Soukaina Safadi, considered one of the most memorable figures of the popular musical wave of Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala, died on Friday, May 20, after a long illness.

The earth shook on Friday, May 20 in the early afternoon in the Tangier -Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, where a seismic shock of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale was recorded. This earthquake triggered a panic among the population.