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Why we can hope for no more pedophiles in Morocco
The Kingdom of Morocco has just lived one of the most intense weeks of its history. Here’s a brief about it...
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CORDOBA AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Only 10 days to the 9th Cordoba African Film Festival (October 13-20), an event that has become one of the main European references for...
Morocco’s militant hackers
They are militant hackers who have attacked sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Israel... Their screen messages have been likened to messages on banners hoisted...
Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla inexorably Moroccan?
The aging population of Ceuta and Melilla and the exceptional fertility rates of its inhabitants of Moroccan descent are reversing the demographic trends in...
A Spanish flottila to call for Western Sahara independence from Morocco
Morocco and Spain, who have in recent times been involved in numerous diplomatic incidents, are to face their toughest test yet as Spanish and...
Morocco and Spain strengthen immigration cooperation
Moroccan and Spanish cooperation to fight against illegal immigration has reached its expected goal.
A meeting between the secretary-general of Morocco's foreign ministry,...
Libya and Spain discuss controversial immigration pact
Libya and Spain have met ahead of an African and European summit to discuss the development of Africa and the control of illegitimate immigration...
Ceuta and Melilla revive Spanish-Moroccan dispute
Considered as "fragments of Europe on north Africa's Mediterranean coast",
are the cities of Ceuta and Melilla Spanish or Moroccan? Madrid and Rabat have revived...
South Africa, centre of England’s World Cup bid controversy
FIFA, world football body has demanded probe into allegations by the England FA chief that Spain and Russia are conspiring to bribe officials at...
Mali-Mauritania-France-Spain: Al Qaeda claims European kidnappings
A spokesman claiming to represent Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings last month of four Europeans in Mali...
Al Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb gaining ground
The Al Qaeda terrorist group in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Tuesday claimed responsibility for the abduction of a French and three Spanish nationals, respectively kidnapped...
Spain: Nobel Peace Prize nominee will fast until “death” if necessary
The independent Saharawi activist, Aminatou Haidar, Monday reached the 23rd day of her hunger strike at the Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands. She...
Western Sahara: Joy turns to anger
Last night as flight VAD652 was preparing for take-off news came through that the Moroccan authorities had refused the plane permission to land. On...
Morocco refuses hunger striker permission to land
Stretchered out of an ambulance, her face covered with a turquoise blanket, hunger striking and human rights activist Aminatou Haidar returned to her makeshift...
UK delegation has audience with hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee, Haidar
A delegation from Britain has met with Nobel Peace prize nominee, Aminatou Haidar, who has been on hunger strike in the Lanzarote airport for...
Mauritania: Three Spanish humanitarian workers abducted by al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is reportedly behind the abduction of the three Spanish humanitarian workers Sunday in Mauritania, indicates Senego.com. The country has been at the mercy...
Convoy of Spanish humanitarian workers abducted in Mauritania
Three Spanish humanitarian workers, two men and a woman, were abducted Sunday in Mauritania as they travelled in a convoy. The convoy, which left...
Spain: Nobel Prize nominee dying for freedom
The hunger-strike of Nobel Prize nominee Aminatou Haidar has drawn the attention of the world to the plight of Western Sahara, but at what...
Spain: Hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee in “critical condition”
News today that hunger striking Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amainatou Haidar is in a critical condition has drawn concern from around the world including...
Spain-Western Sahara: Hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee sends message of hope to her children
Aminatou Haidar, the Western Saharan Nobel Prize nominee who has been on hunger strike for six days, has used a live telephone link-up during...
Deportation of Nobel Peace Prize nominee “could backfire” on Morocco
The detention and deportation of Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist could backfire on Morocco as the action attracts worldwide condemnation. Aminatou Haidar,...
Spain Investigates President of Equatorial Guinea for Laundering Oil Money
After thirty years of corrupt rule in Equatorial Guinea, the courts are finally taking a serious look at what the ruling family does with...
Football: Adebayor goes to Manchester City, Inter Milan future for Samuel Eto’o looking bright
Emmanuel Adebayor, 25, has left Arsenal to join Manchester City. The English club has spent a whopping 28 million euros to obtain the services...
Shocking Spanish police maltreatment of African immigrant caught on film
The Madrid international airport in Spain was the scene of a violent expulsion, Tuesday, of an African immigrant, believed to be of Senegalese descent....
Spain-Nigeria: Police free two Spanish men abducted two weeks ago
Nigerian Police yesterday arrested four men for the alleged kidnapping of two Spanish men, Jose Bufi Perez and Alonso Boj Escobedo. Nnamdi Omike, a...
Football: Zidane’s son may soon play for Spanish national team
Enzo Zidane, the son of the former French international, Zinédine Zidane, is expected to play for the Spanish national team soon. The fourteen year...
Western Saharan born Moroccan official dismissed for holding Spanish nationality
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has dismissed the Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ahmed Lakhrif, after the latter...
Moroccan convicted of Madrid bombings vows to appeal
Abdelilah Ahriz has been convicted for raising money for terrorist activities as well as being part of the criminal group that carried out the...
Morocco records highest number of Spanish nationals in its prisons
Morocco has the largest number of detained Spanish nationals in its prisons, followed by Brazil and Peru, the Moroccan media said Wednesday. Some 219...
Spanish Head of United Nations Military Mission in Congo resigns, Ghanaian takes over
Lieutenant-General Vincente Diaz de Villegas, from Spain, recently appointed to head the United Nations Military Mission in Congo (MONUC), Monday handed in his resignation...