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• Taxi Driver’s 600-Mile Journey Saves Kidney Donation After Airport Protest
  18 February 2024, by Prince

  A nun from Lorient missed her flight to Toulouse on Wednesday due to the taxi drivers’ protest against the unfair competition from VTC, causing major disruptions around Nantes airport. One of the striking taxi drivers finally agreed to take her there.
  The nun was unable to take her flight to Toulouse where she was expected to donate a kidney to her brother. To make up for this prejudice she suffered due to their strike, Mounir Jouad, a Nantes taxi driver, decided to take her to Toulouse, (…)

• Zakaria Aboukhlal: here is his salary at Toulouse
  24 March 2024, by Sylvanus

  The Moroccan striker of Toulouse FC Zakaria Aboukhlal outclasses his Dutch teammate, midfielder Branco Van Den Boomen, and becomes the highest paid player at TFC.
  As every season, the newspaper L’Équipe in partnership with France Bleu has revealed the salaries of Ligue 1 football. As last season, the French international from PSG Kylian Mbappé is the highest paid player in the championship with six million euros gross per month. A salary he has been receiving since last year. His teammate (…)

• Injured Aboukhlal Likely Sidelined for Toulouse’s Match Against Brest
  19 May 2024, by Prince

  Substituted due to injury against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) a week ago, Zakaria Aboukhlal will probably not be in the starting lineup of Toulouse Football Club (TFC) for the match against Stade Brestois this Sunday.
  Zakaria Aboukhlal was substituted in the second half of the match against PSG, after receiving a blow to the ankle. With this injury, the 24-year-old Moroccan winger will not be in the starting lineup against Stade Brestois this Sunday, according to the website Les Violets. (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Expands Fleet with Dreamliners and A330 NEOs Ahead of 2030 World Cup
  17 July 2024, by Sylvanus

  The fleet of Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will expand with the arrival of Dreamliner and A330 NEO aircraft before 2030, the year Morocco will co-host the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal. Abdelhamid Addou, CEO of the company, traveled to the United States and Toulouse to stay informed of the latest aircraft innovations and ensure the proper execution of Moroccan orders.
  Seattle marks the first stage of Abdelhamid Addou’s tour. He visited Boeing’s headquarters, where he met with senior (…)

• French Rugby Prodigy, 17, Missing Off South African Coast; Police Launch Investigation
  9 August 2024, by Sylvanus

  Missing at sea since Wednesday off the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, the 17-year-old French rugby player Medhi Narjissi, a player of Stade Toulousain trained in Agen, has still not been found. The police have opened an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of his disappearance.
  On Thursday, the French Rugby Federation (FFR) announced in a press release the opening of a police investigation to find the Franco-Moroccan international Medhi Narjissi, who has been missing (…)

• Parents of Missing French Rugby Player Blame Federation for South Africa Tragedy
  28 August 2024, by Sylvanus

  A few weeks after the disappearance of their son, the parents of the French rugby player Medhi Narjissi, a player of Stade Toulousain trained in Agen, aged 17, are still in shock. They give a poignant testimony and hold the French Rugby Federation (FFR) responsible for what happened at the Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa, on August 7.
  Medhi Narjissi’s parents are having trouble mourning. Swept away by the strong currents at Diaz Beach, near Cape of Good Hope, in South Africa on August (…)

• EasyJet to Close Toulouse Base, Threatening Morocco Flight Routes
  11 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  The announcement by the British airline Easyjet of the closure of its base at Toulouse airport could lead to the end of several flights to Morocco.
  Several flights to Morocco are threatened with the upcoming closure of its base at Toulouse airport, the airline serving Fez, Casablanca or Marrakech.
  Easyjet also intends to launch a voluntary departure plan that would affect about thirty employees in France. "The proposal to close the Toulouse base is due to a combination of factors, (…)

• Toulouse Fans Boo Struggling Striker Aboukhlal During Lyon Match
  6 October 2024, by Prince

  In poor form this season, the Moroccan striker of Toulouse, Zakaria Aboukhlal, was booed by Toulouse supporters on Sunday, September 29 during the match against Lyon (1-2) in the French Ligue 1.
  Aboukhlal is going through a bad patch at Toulouse. The Moroccan international is struggling to regain his level of play and to score goals since his return in March last year after about six months of absence following a knee injury sustained on September 21, 2023.
  The Atlas Lion did not (…)

• Rare Water Allergy Disrupts Moroccan Student’s Life in France
  21 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  In Toulouse, a Moroccan third-year psychology student is unable to attend classes in person or find a job to survive. And for good reason, she is afflicted with a rare disease.
  "This Thursday (October 17, editor’s note), I had forgotten to take an umbrella and I was not wearing my waterproof pants. Ten minutes after being touched by a few drops, I started to scratch. I had to give up my afternoon class," Zineb tells La Dépêche du Midi. The Moroccan student suffers from aquagenic pruritus. (…)

• Moroccan Man Sentenced in France, Faces Deportation Limbo Amid Morocco’s Refusal
  28 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  Following the prosecutor’s requisition, the Montpellier court sentenced a young Moroccan to nine months in prison for non-compliance with his house arrest, as well as for not reporting twice a week to the Toulouse police station. While he has been banned from French territory since 2020, Morocco refuses to welcome him.
  In addition to the prison sentence, the court banned Abdessamad from appearing in Hérault for three years. This conviction follows a shooting that occurred on October 10. (…)