A light aircraft operated by a private Moroccan company was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday, July 6, at approximately 8:50 PM at Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport. The plane had departed from Marrakech around 6:50 PM, en route to Majorca, Spain, with three people on board: the pilot, co-pilot, and a passenger. Shortly after takeoff, a mechanical issue was reported involving the landing gear, resulting in the loss of a wheel. In response, the crew decided to divert the
During the seventh regional conference of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in the Souss-Massa region, the party’s Secretary-General, Abdelilah Benkirane, addressed the Polisario issue in part of his speech. Speaking at the event held Saturday in Agadir, Benkirane stated: «I want to open a parenthesis about the Polisario. We have a clear vision when it comes to the Sahara. The leaders of the Polisario studied with Abdellah Baha in the same classroom, including Mustafa Sayyid.
The day after the opening of the Fifth World Forum of Sociology, held from July 6 to 11, 2025, in Rabat under the theme «Understanding Justice in the Age of the Anthropocene», the BDS Morocco movement and the National Federation of Education (FNE) are organizing an academic session dedicated to Palestine. Scheduled for Monday, July 7, at 7:30 PM at the union’s headquarters, the event aims to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to reject all forms of academic
Parliamentary representative Fatima Tamni, from the Federation of the Democratic Left, has submitted a written question to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests regarding the continued export of avocados to Canada amid Morocco’s ongoing water crisis. In her correspondence dated July 5, 2025, El Tamni highlighted that Morocco is facing «recurrent droughts and a worrying decline in both groundwater and surface water levels», while the
An 18-year-old woman was forced to leave the beach at Carry-le-Rouet, near Marseille, after attempting to swim in a burkini. On July 2, municipal police officers, accompanied by gendarmes, prevented her from entering the sea, citing a local ordinance. «We arrive, my sister is about to swim, and two municipal police officers blow their whistle and tell her she can’t go in», her twin brother, Islan, told France 3 Régions. «We ask why, and they say she’s not
Amid growing international warnings over the escalating global water crisis, a new United Nations report has drawn attention to the alarming situation in Morocco, where droughts are becoming increasingly severe and frequent. The report offers a stark outlook for the country’s water future, placing Morocco among the nations most at risk of «extreme water scarcity» by 2050, unless urgent and decisive action is taken.
The Primary Court in Salé has fined a member of parliament, affiliated with one of the governing coalition parties, 25,000 dirhams after he was prosecuted for vandalizing public property. The charges stem from a traffic accident he caused while in a state of advanced intoxication. According to Assabah newspaper, the crash resulted in severe damage to an electric pole in the Bouknadel municipality, along with significant damage to the MP’s vehicle. The ruling has been appealed, and
The Spanish National Police have arrested a woman at the Ceuta-Morocco border checkpoint after discovering she was accompanied by two minors who had been reported missing and were subject to protection orders issued by Belgian authorities. The arrest came after it was confirmed that the woman was the subject of a European arrest and extradition warrant issued by Belgium, on charges of kidnapping, unlawful detention, and hostage-taking. Once her identity was verified, Spanish police took
A declaration of love to both ancestral and contemporary music, or proof that musical heritage thrives when embraced within a living, evolving dynamic. The duo Aïta mon amour captures all of this in their album Abda, named in tribute to the Moroccan region known as the cradle of aïta. At the 18th edition of the Jazzablanca Festival, the pair—Widad Mjama and Khalil EPI—offered their audience an experience that was both festive and transcendent. In a seamless symbiosis,
John Bolton is proposing a strategy to Algeria and the Polisario aimed at persuading former U.S. President Donald Trump to reverse his recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a decision officially made on December 10, 2020. According to Bolton, securing Trump’s support for organizing a referendum on the territory would require giving him a «motivation», as he recently explained in an interview with a Spanish media outlet. Referring to Trump’s
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