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Six million euros. This is the cost of the work on the future Grand Mosque of Manacor (Majorca). A project entirely financed by King Mohammed VI, and intended for the Moroccan community established in the Balearic Islands.
The future Grand Mosque of Manacor will be built on an area of 14,500 square meters. The site to host the project was acquired from the BBVA bank for around 2.2 million euros, reports the Spanish press.
In addition to the mosque itself, the project plans the (…)

Moroccan exports of fruits and vegetables to Spain have increased by 120% and by 40% to the rest of the EU over the past decade. An "invasion" of Moroccan products denounced by the Spanish Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Producer and Exporter Associations (Fepex), which calls on the European Union to defend European producers.
In a recent report, Fepex warns that the continued increase in Moroccan fruit and vegetable exports "will aggravate the already critical situation of the Spanish (…)

In the coming months, the shipping company Balearia will put into service an electric ferry that will allow to connect Spain and Morocco in just over 40 minutes.
Balearia will deploy this electric ferry to serve the route between Algeciras (Cadiz) and Tangier in Morocco, reports La Vanguardia. With this electric and non-polluting ferry, the journeys between the two shores of the strait will last just over 40 minutes, we are assured.
This electric ferry is part of the company’s projects (…)

A 12-meter deep tunnel has been discovered in Ceuta. The Guardia Civil suspects its use to introduce drugs into the autonomous city from Morocco.
This tunnel connects an underground gallery and a warehouse in the Tarajal industrial zone on the border of Morocco with Ceuta. Very narrow and built of wood, it would have been used to transport drugs to Spain from Morocco, according to the Guardia Civil in a statement cited by Europa Press.
The investigation conducted under the supervision (…)

John, a young man from Bilbao, traveled to Morocco to retrieve the phone stolen from his wife, containing unsaved photos and videos of their baby just a year old.
Intervening in the Mañaneros program on La 1, John explained that on January 27, his wife had her phone stolen by a man who offered to help her as she was climbing stairs with her baby in a stroller. The young man from Bilbao confided that he and his wife were distraught because the phone contained all the photos and videos of (…)

Mohamed, a 22-year-old Moroccan, is eking out a living in Spain. Arrived in Catalonia two years ago, the young homeless man has managed, not without difficulty, to enroll in the first year of vocational studies in mechanics at the INS de Llobregat de L’Hospitalet.
Without institutional support, Mohamed is struggling to integrate into Spanish society. Since September, he has been following an industrial mechanics training course at the INS de Llobregat de L’Hospitalet. The young man of (…)

Abdel, a 25-year-old man from Melilla, died on Saturday of cancer at the Virgen de las Nieves hospital in Granada, after being the victim of neglect for several years at the regional hospital in Melilla.
The young man passed away just a few hours after being admitted and undergoing tests at the Granada hospital. "The professionals we met in Granada were human and immediately subjected him to various tests. The diagnosis was clear and they gathered his loved ones to tell them to prepare (…)

Moroccan residents and drivers in Spain demonstrated last week in front of the DGT in Madrid and the Moroccan embassy in Spain to demand that a solution be found to the problem of recognition of driving licenses.
To have their driving license recognized in Spain, Moroccans residing on the Iberian Peninsula must undergo a theoretical exam, which seems complicated, as some of them cannot read or write in Spanish. Before 2004, Spain and Morocco had a direct license recognition agreement. (…)

Melilla entrepreneurs are alerting the Spanish authorities that since two weeks that the commercial customs of Ceuta and Melilla are supposed to be reopened, only one truck has entered Morocco from Melilla.
The president of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Melilla (CEME-CEOE), Enrique Alcoba Ruiz, has asked the Spanish government to "separate this issue from other unrelated subjects, such as the situation in Western Sahara", in order to demand that Morocco set up commercial customs (…)

Suspected of drug trafficking, Mohamed Ali Duas, deputy of the MDyC, was arrested on Thursday in Ceuta as part of an operation carried out by the Guardia Civil.
Two prison officers and other people were also arrested during this operation, reports El Faro de Ceuta, noting that searches were carried out on Friday at the homes of Mohamed Ali Duas to look for possible evidence. The boats, vehicles and other properties of the defendants were also thoroughly searched.
The accused are accused (…)