RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco hosted a consultative meeting between representatives of the Libyan Parliament and the Tripoli-based High Council of State, which acts as a senate. “The meeting (in the northern city of Bouznika) aims to reach elections to end the duality of Libyan institutions,” Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourit...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Thousands of Moroccans staged solidarity protests in support of Gaza which has been enduring genocide and ethnic cleansing by Israel for over a year. The demonstrations, organized by the Moroccan Commission for Advocating the Nation’s Causes, a non-governmental group, were held after Friday prayers in multiple...
TUNIS/RABAT (AA) – Dozens of protesters gathered in Tunisia and Morocco on Tuesday to condemn Israel’s ongoing attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, calling for action. In Tunisia, people gathered to demonstrate solidarity with the Lebanese resistance against the Israeli assaults. The protest, organized by the Tunisian Network to Address Normaliz...
Rabat, Morocco – AFP Thousands of Moroccans protested in Rabat on Saturday in support of Palestinians and to condemn normalisation with Israel, holding portraits of killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Waving Palestinian flags, and brandishing pictures of Haniyeh and a cardboard coffin adorned with his image, thousands of people marched t...
Rabat, Morocco – AFP Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Monday pardoned three journalists detained for years, as hundreds of prisoners saw their sentences commuted to mark the monarch’s 25th anniversary on the throne. Omar Radi, Soulaimane Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, as well as historian and rights advocate Maati Monjib, wer...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An activist group in Morocco has urged the government to block a Japanese-owned cargo ship, Vertom Odette, suspected of transporting weapons to Israel from passing through its territorial waters. Sailing under the flag of Luxembourg, the commercial ship departed from India on April 18 and is set to arrive at the Spanish [...
Casablanca, Morocco — AFP North African football fans are using the sport to express solidarity for the Palestinians amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in Gaza. As early as October 8, supporters of Raja Club Athletic in Casablanca revived an old chant: “You for whom my heart is saddened,” goes the song which spread thr...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco banned the distribution of a French magazine containing cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad, a government source told Anadolu on Friday. The source, who did not want to be named, said that the ban was imposed on the latest issue of the Marianne magazine dated Feb. 29. He said the […]
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the country’s government broke the law in 2021 when it returned around 1,500 underage migrants to Morocco. The court reviewed how Spain dealt with minors in the aftermath of a mass border crossing in May, when some 12,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The Moroccan government said Wednesday that it is ready to deliberate a petition calling for halting normalization with Israel. The government “is ready to deliberate the petition,” government spokesman Mustafa Baytas said following a cabinet meeting. Human rights activists announced plans to submit a petition demanding t...
