Royal Air Maroc: Distressed Passenger Forces Emergency Landing in Barcelona A plane of the company Royal Air Maroc had to interrupt its flight and make an emergency landing at Barcelona-El Prat airport on Monday, September 23. The reason for this unexpected incident: the health of a passenger on board suddenly deteriorated, requiring rapid medical intervention, […]
Moroccan woman suspected of adultery forced to take pregnancy test A married woman and mother of five children is accused by her husband of adultery with a moqaddem in the douar of Afella N’Dra, in the Zagora region. She denies the facts. The woman denied the accusations, saying her husband made up the whole story […]
Scam in Fez: a carpet sold to an American woman for 850,000 dirhams An American tourist has filed a complaint for fraud and swindling against a tour guide and a bazaar owner in the old medina of Fez. The city’s judicial police brigade has opened an investigation to shed light on the case. Investigators heard […]
Murder of Nabil in Bordeaux: suspect arrested in Morocco A Frenchman, targeted by an Interpol “red notice” for his alleged link to the premeditated murder of Nabil, an 18-year-old man, committed in Bordeaux, was arrested in Ifrane, Morocco. Pending his possible extradition to France, he was placed in police custody. The end of the run […]
The Mohammed VI Tower in Rabat completed THE Mohammed VI Tower is in its completion phase in Rabat. At 250 meters high, it will be the second tallest tower in Africa. Located between Rabat and Salé, on the banks of the Bouregreg, the Mohammed VI Tower is almost complete. The ongoing work concerns the interior […]
Moroccan airports are equipped with automatic access doors Morocco is continuing the modernization of its airports. Five airports in the kingdom – Tangier, Fez, Agadir, Oujda and Nador – will soon be equipped with an automated boarding pass control system. This device, developed by the company SITA BV, will allow travelers to access the transit […]
Algerians sentenced in Morocco An Algerian woman posing as a Moroccan, an Algerian footballer and other Algerians are among the 152 people arrested for having incited illegal emigration from accounts on different social networks to Ceuta. While they used to reach Europe via Libya and Turkey, candidates for illegal emigration are now going to the […]
Changes to the Moroccan passport? MP Hanane Atarguine, a member of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, recently raised the issue of extending the validity period of the Moroccan passport, currently set at five years, to ten years. In a written question addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, the MP highlighted the efforts […]
In Rabat, the former Kamra bus station will be expropriated The Moroccan authorities have decided to expropriate the buildings of the former Kamra bus station in Rabat with a view to carrying out a major cultural project on the site. The expropriation decision was published in the Official Journal. It aims to “create public infrastructure […]
Morocco: El Jadida prepares for tsunami The city of El Jadida will receive in the coming days two sirens offered by UNESCO as part of the international tsunami risk prevention program. “The two devices arrived a few days ago at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, and are awaiting the finalization of customs administrative procedures to […]