An investigation conducted in Morocco revealed that a beneficiary of Dutch social assistance had owned three properties and collected rental income without declaring it. Her municipality can recover 177,226.12 euros paid over nearly twelve years, the courts have just confirmed.
Algeria has ended the tenure of its consul in Oujda, Hicham Ferhati, who has now been sent to London. No successor in Morocco appears in the new series of appointments decided by Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Moroccans remain the most numerous foreign nationals holding a valid residence permit in the European Union. There were 2.2 million of them at the end of 2025, ahead of Turks and Ukrainians.
Despite its proximity to Morocco, Israel says it will not sacrifice its relationship with Spain. Its representative in Madrid also assures that her country has “no doubt” about who controls Sebta.
Algeria announced this Thursday, September 10, that it was severing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. A spectacular decision targeting one of Morocco’s closest political and economic partners.
Morocco took part in the adoption of a resolution ending one of the oldest nuclear cases monitored by the IAEA. The case concerned a secret reactor built in Syria under Bashar al-Assad and destroyed by Israel in 2007.
Morocco is now among the concerns of Italy’s automotive industry. The head of ANFIA fears that future European legislation intended to protect the continent’s factories could ultimately encourage imports from the Kingdom and Turkey.
A 28-year-old cultural mediator of Moroccan origin, born in Caltanissetta, Sicily, says she was the target of racist insults after intervening to defend a young Bangladeshi man who was being harassed near the train station.
A 32-year-old Moroccan man has admitted killing his former partner’s brother in Udine. He claims the murder was linked to the 8,000 euros paid so that he could marry the young woman and obtain a residence permit, a version that investigators still need to verify.
The Russian cargo ship Lady Mariia, targeted by US sanctions and identified by Ukrainian intelligence as being involved in arms transport, passed through the Strait of Gibraltar off Morocco before stopping in Algeria. A few days later, it was attacked by drones in the Mediterranean.
Two Portuguese police officers are standing trial for the alleged kidnapping and homicide of a Moroccan man in Olhão. Aissa Ait Aissa was transported handcuffed in their patrol car before being found seriously injured. He died twenty days later in hospital.
A Moroccan man admitted that he had deliberately left his passport and identity card in Turkey to avoid possible deportation. The Dutch justice system partially upheld his arguments regarding the procedure, but ultimately maintained the rejection of his asylum application and its consequences.