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Morocco: Raging flood water claims lives of seven people in Taroudant
Rabat, Aug 29, 2019 (AFP) - At least seven people were killed Wednesday when a river burst its banks and flooded a village football pitch where a game was being played in south Morocco, local authorities said. The victims included a 17-year-old boy and six elderly men...
Morocco: Court issues death sentences in 2017 Marrakesh shooting
July 27, 2019 - A Moroccan court has sentenced to death two Dutch citizens over the accidental killing of a medical student in 2017, a lawyer for the victim's family said Saturday. Two years ago Edwin Gabriel Robles Martinez and Shardyone Girigorio Semerel allegedly...
Morocco: Landslide buries bus near Marrakesh, kills 15
Rabat, July 26, 2019 - Moroccan emergency crews pulled 15 bodies from the mud after a rare summer downpour triggered a landslide that buried a minibus, authorities said Friday, providing the first official toll. The victims -- eleven women, three men and one child --...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists get death sentence
Salé, Morocco, July 18, 2019 - Three Islamic State group supporters were sentenced to death by a court in Morocco on Thursday over the beheadings of two Scandinavian women on a hiking trip in the High Atlas Mountains. The defendants had asked God for forgiveness...
Morocco: Migrants breach Melilla border fence
Madrid, July 19, 2019 - Around 50 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco on Friday by climbing over a towering border fence, Spanish authorities said. About 200 migrants tried to storm the barbed wire fence at dawn but...
Morocco: Judges under intense pressure to issue death penalty to killers of European tourists
Salé, Morocco, July 11, 2019 - The mother of a Danish student beheaded along with another Scandinavian woman while hiking in Morocco's High Atlas mountains called Thursday for the suspected jihadist killers to face the death penalty as their trial neared its end. "The...
Morocco intercepts massive amount of cannabis bound for Europe
Rabat, July 8, 2019 - Moroccan police seized a "record" 27.3 tonnes of cannabis resin hidden in trucks bound for Europe, the country's security service said Monday. The drugs were discovered Sunday evening at the vast Tanger Med port in three vehicles "believed to be...
Morocco: Lawyers speak of Moroccan government failure to track terrorists, as suspects face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - Lawyers for the family of a Danish hiker murdered last year in Morocco said on Thursday that authorities had failed to monitor the activities of some suspects before the killing. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and...
Morocco: Killers of European tourists in Morocco face death penalty
Salé, Morocco, June 27, 2019 - (By Ismail Bellaouali) - Moroccan prosecutors on Thursday called for the death penalty for the three main jihadist suspects on trial for the "bloodthirsty" murder of two young Scandinavian hikers. The maximum sentence was sought for...
Morocco: UN warns of over-urbanising Morocco’s coastline
Mohammedia, Morocco, June 17, 2019 - Beneath an apartment block that looms over Monica beach in the western coastal city of Mohammedia, a sole sand dune has escaped the clutches of Morocco's insatiable construction contractors. Here, like elsewhere across the North...
Morocco: Major victory for ethnic Berbers with language recognition in Morocco
Rabat, June 11, 2019 - Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language's official status, eight years after it was preliminarily recognised in a new constitution. The new law is designed to cement use of Berber -- alongside...
Morocco neutralizes another terror cell
Rabat, June 3, 2019 - Three suspects accused of belonging to a "terrorist cell" affiliated to the Islamic State group were arrested in Morocco on Monday, the country's anti-terror police said. The three men, aged between 26 and 28, were "in the process of preparing...
Morocco: Mafia fugitive arrested in Tangiers
Rabat, May 30, 2019 - An Italian mafia fugitive wanted for drug trafficking, murder, extortion and other alleged crimes has been arrested in Morocco, authorities in the North African country said Thursday. Raffaele Vallefuoco, 55, is accused of heading a cell within...
Morocco: Court adjourns in tourist murder case, suspect admits to crime
Salé, Morocco, May 30, 2019 | By Hamza Mekouar - The alleged leader of a jihadist cell accused of killing two Scandinavian hikers in Morocco admitted to the murders in court on Thursday, saying they were carried out in the name of the Islamic State group. Danish...
Moroccan lawmakers continue to oppose the Amazigh ethnic rights
An anti-Berber legislative body in Morocco, the Finance and Economic Development Committee in the house of representatives vetoed the amendment of a draft law that would allow the Kingdom's central bank, Bank Al Maghrib to issue the next series of banknotes using...
Morocco: Migrants breach border fence, cross to Melilla
Madrid, May 12, 2019 - Fifty-two African migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco Sunday by climbing over a towering border fence, Spanish authorities said. About 100 migrants tried to storm the barbed wire fence at dawn but...
Morocco: Police arrest three drug traffickers
Morocco: Education sector braces for general strike, as teachers shift protests to nigh-time during Ramadan
Morocco dispatches hundreds of religious clerics abroad to check on its diaspora
Morocco: Education sector braces for general strike, as teachers are shifting protests to nigh-time during Ramadan
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