A woman was supposed to transfer property located in Morocco to her ex-husband before April 2020. Six years later, nothing has been resolved. The Dutch courts have just changed their approach in an attempt to unblock a situation constrained by Moroccan rules.
The president of Algeria’s Council of the Nation, Azouz Nasri, launched a fierce attack on Morocco, accusing the “Moroccan Makhzen” of pursuing a project of “settler colonialism” in the region and harboring “expansionist ambitions.”
Air Arabia Maroc failed to convince the Dutch courts following a delay to an Amsterdam–Fès flight. The court notably found that the airline could have switched aircraft and faulted it for failing to sufficiently demonstrate that its entire fleet was in use.
Morocco has just hired an American agency to strengthen its communications in the United States. The contract provides for $35,000 a month and details how Rabat intends to better convey its messages in Washington.
Two and a half years after opening a tiny 18-seat café in Philadelphia, Moroccan Soufiane Boutliliss is moving to a completely different scale. His new restaurant can accommodate around 120 customers, with cuisine that remains deeply connected to Morocco.
Faced with the growing support for the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Sahara among Western powers, Algeria is strengthening its relations with countries close to Moscow. Latest stop: Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus.
A tax declaration completed nearly two years after the events weighed heavily in the case of a woman seeking assistance in the Netherlands. She had herself stated that she had been living in Morocco since 2 August 2021.
For months, Swiss authorities denounced the slowness of the procedures allowing certain Moroccan nationals to be expelled. In some cases, identification allegedly took more than a year. Then, in the spring, the figures changed abruptly.
Years after the searches were launched, three men closely linked to Morocco still rank among the Netherlands’ most wanted criminals. Two are suspected of having run a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation, while the third is wanted in several murder cases.
The Netherlands had withdrawn Dutch nationality from two Moroccans born in the country, before ordering their departure to Morocco and barring them from the Schengen Area for twenty years. On June 3, the courts dealt the authorities a double setback.
A mother wanted to spend more than a month in Morocco with her child, but did not have the father’s consent. Asked to intervene before the departure, the Dutch courts ultimately authorized the trip and themselves replaced the missing consent.
Recipients of Dutch social assistance must report their bank accounts held in Morocco. But the service that coordinates checks abroad acknowledges a clear limitation: it cannot obtain or transmit information about their balances.