Recent reports have revealed that at least some 19 people have reportedly died and some dozens others have also been hospitalised following their consumption of toxic alcohol from a roadside kiosk which is located in northern Morocco.
The Moroccoan Police have also arrested a 48-year-old suspect who had been in connection with the incident, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN).
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The victims had reported to have consumed the toxic alcohol in the suspect’s store, where some of the investigators had later discovered nearly 50 litres of the poisonous liquid.…
Dozens of Moroccan firefighters in collaboration with soldiers battled Thursday to put out at least four infernos ripping through forests in the north of the kingdom, officials have confirmed.
According to officials, several villages had to be evacuated ahead of the flames as military water-bomber planes dropped loads in a bid to extinguish the blaze.
In soaring temperatures, and shocked by how fast the leaping flames were spreading, villagers fled their homes.
Some, where they could, herded their crucial cattle and horses upon which their livelihoods depend ahead of them.
A village in the Ksar El Kebir region of the …
Algeria has suspended a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain with immediate effect after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality in the Western Sahara dispute.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the move has now become the latest blow to increasingly fragile relations between Algiers and Madrid, which depends on Algeria for its natural gas supply.
‘Algeria has decided to immediately suspend the treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and cooperation’ signed with Madrid in 2002, the president’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.
Spain’s government said it regretted Algeria’s decision and reaffirmed its commitment to the friendship …
Truck and taxi drivers Moroccan are observing a three-day strike in protest at spiraling fuel costs, a union said Tuesday, as oil prices spike over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
About three quarters of drivers are observing the strike, Mounir Benazouz of the SNPTR truckers’ union clarified.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that no fewer than four other unions have also joined the action which is expected to end on Wednesday.
‘We are calling on the government to put a ceiling on fuel prices and the profit margins of distributors, because the situation is becoming more and more critical,’ Benazouz …
The Moroccan parliament has passed a law legalising the production of cannabis for medicinal and industrial uses.
The North African country has been considering the move for a while. On 11 March, the Moroccan government approved a bill authorising the ‘medical, cosmetic and industrial’ use of cannabis.
The interior ministry, headed by Abdelouafi Laftit, drafted the bill, and it paves the way for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use as which has now been completed.
The authorities are also going to put in the needed frame work to regulate its production.
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Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the Sokoto State government has entered a business undertaking with Morocco that promises to enhance improved agricultural yield for farmers, and ultimately, increase the state’s Internally Generated Revenue
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal’s recent visit to Morocco marked the conclusive stage of a cooperation agreement with OCP Morocco, a state-owned company and a world leader in phosphate and its derivatives, for the establishment of a phosphate blending plant in Sokoto state.
The state government, working in conjunction with the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF) had earlier keyed into the initiative to tap into its massive phosphate reserves, …
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, has called for the suspension of Morocco from the African Union over the alleged illegal occupation of parts of the territory of Western Sahara.
The human rights lawyer made the call to African leaders at the recently concluded international conference on Western Sahara in Paris, capital of France.
Falana, who is also the legal adviser of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic for Africa, argued that the enlistment of Morocco to the AU in January 2017, while occupying Western Sahara, violated some provisions of the constitutive act of …
Faouzi Lakjaa, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), declared in February that VAR technology will be introduced in the Moroccan football league starting next season.
“Referees will also be trained for the task ahead”, the Moroccan FA boss said.
“The VAAR technology will be implemented to avoid referees mistakes similar to those during the 2018 FIFA World Cup”, he added.
The North African country’s Football Federation
Morocco is a stable partner and credible provider of security at the regional level, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who co-chaired Tuesday in Washington, DC., with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, the fourth session of the Strategic Dialogue between Morocco and the United States.
In a joint statement issued at the end of this session of the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue held at the headquarters of the State Department, the two ministers welcomed the convening of the African Lion, Lightning Handshake and Epic Guardian joint military exercises.
They also “discussed the …
As Africa fosters strategies to embrace and move with digital race, a three-day conference on “Technology, Innovation and Society’’ tagged CyFy Africa 2019 has been packaged to discuss the way forward.
The conference slated to hold in Tangiers, Morocco, is designed to account for the Continent’s voices in the global discourse.
According to the Organising Committee, CyFy Africa 2019 will bring together ministers, journalists, ethicists, civil society, as well as technology leaders.
It would also assemble entrepreneurs to “curate Africa-centered conversations around data, innovation, gender, norms and new media’’.
“CyFy will be informed by African experiences and contexts — capturing …
Pope Francis on Saturday joined Morocco’s King Mohammed VI in saying Jerusalem should be a “symbol of peaceful coexistence” for Christians, Jews and Muslims, on the first day of a visit to the North African country.
The spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics was invited by King Mohammed VI for the sake of “inter-religious dialogue”, according to Moroccan authorities.
In a joint statement, the two leaders said Jerusalem was “common patrimony of humanity and especially the followers of the three monotheistic religions.”
“The specific multi-religious character, the spiritual dimension and the particular cultural identity of Jerusalem… must be …
