Archiv: Marokko / Morocco


22.01.2024 - 11:00 [ Middle East Eye ]

Gaza war: Why did Arab states not join South Africa‘s case against Israel in the ICJ?

All Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have issued many statements condemning Israel‘s assault on Gaza, but they did not take any further action. Saudi Arabia and the Arab League waited for more than a month of onslaught in Gaza to hold a summit in Riyadh to discuss the issue.

The summit decided to break the siege and blockade, but Arab countries never turned this resolution into action. Instead, Egypt obeyed Israeli commands and refused to give access to move injured civilians for treatment outside of Gaza unless Israel approved their names.

10.09.2023 - 16:39 [ Yabiladi.ma ]

زلزال الحوز: مؤسسات ودول تعرض المساعدة على المغرب

أعرب كل من رئيسة المفوضية الأوروبية، أورسولا فون دير لاين، ورئيس وزراء الهند، ناريندرا مودي؛ ورئيس الاتحاد الأفريقي رئيس جزر القمر غزالي عثماني؛ ورئيس الجمهورية الفرنسية إيمانويل ماكرون؛ ورئيس البنك الدولي، أجاي بانجا، والمديرة العامة لصندوق النقد الدولي، في بيان مشترك عن تضامنهما „الكامل مع السلطات والشعب المغربي، ونقدم تضامننا التعازي لأسر الضحايا“

وأعربوا عن رغبتهم „في دعم المغرب بأفضل طريقة ممكنة“.

10.09.2023 - 16:25 [ MoroccoWorldNews.com ]

Timeline: The Deadly September 8 Earthquake in Morocco

The deadly earthquake caused material and human damage as videos and pictures documented the heartbreaking events that transpired in less than a minute.

09.01.2023 - 11:04 [ ORF.at ]

Weiterer USA-Israel-Gipfel mit vier arabischen Staaten

Israel und die USA wollen in diesem Jahr erneut ein Gipfeltreffen mit vier arabischen Staaten abhalten. Das Treffen sei in den kommenden Wochen in Marokko geplant, vermutlich im März, sagte ein Sprecher des israelischen Außenministeriums gestern in Abu Dhabi. Dort finden bis morgen erstmals Treffen von Arbeitsgruppen aus Israel, den USA, Ägypten, Bahrain, Marokko und den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten (VAE) statt.

11.06.2022 - 11:44 [ Morocco World News ]

Moroccan Man Who Fought With Ukraine Sentenced to Death in Donetsk

While the court tried the men on the basis of them being foreign mercenaries, the defendants and their families maintained that they were living in Ukraine legally and fought officially with Ukraine, which would grant them the protection of being legitimate prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva convention.

Only a small portion of the closed trial was made public through pro-Russian media. Observers said it’s a “show trial” with “trumped up charges” put on “to imitate trials of Russian soldiers in Ukraine.”

11.06.2022 - 10:53 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

So-called court in Donetsk sentences two captive Britons and one Moroccan to death

UK citizens Shaun Pinner, Aiden Aslin and Moroccan Saadun Brahim were charged with being mercenaries and participating in operations aimed at seizure of power and overthrow of the so-called constitutional order of the so-called „Donetsk People‘s Republic“, which is not recognized by anyone but Russia.

05.05.2022 - 20:50 [ MoroccoLatestNews.com ]

Spain / Pegasus case: Why the thesis involving Morocco is a smokescreen

The affair of espionage via the Pegasus software of the Israeli manufacturer NSO in Spain has caused a lot of ink to flow, to the point of having differences of opinion within the government and the Iberian political parties themselves. If the Spanish press seems to want to designate Morocco as guilty, this is not the opinion of several officials. What is behind this case?

05.05.2022 - 20:47 [ NorthAfricapost.com ]

Pegasus case: Any person or organization accusing Morocco must provide evidence (FM)

Any person or organization accusing Morocco must provide evidence, or assume their slanderous denunciation in court, said on Thursday Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in connection with the persistent media campaign on an alleged infiltration of the phones of several national and foreign public figures through a spyware.

05.05.2022 - 20:16 [ New York Times ]

Spain Says Cellphones of Prime Minister and Defense Minister Were Hacked

(02.05.2022)

Officials said the devices were breached by the Pegasus spyware, made by an Israeli company, which is intended to track illegal behavior but has been misused by some governments.

02.05.2022 - 16:14 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Handy-Attacke mit Pegasus-Software: Spähangriff auf Spaniens Regierungschef

Bolaños machte keine Angaben dazu, ob die spanischen Behörden über Hinweise auf den Ursprung der Abhöraktion verfügen oder ob sie aus dem Ausland erfolgte.

Es sei aber absolut sicher, dass es sich um eine Attacke von außen handele, weil weil in Spanien alle Eingriffe von offiziellen Einrichtungen und mit juristischer Genehmigung erfolgen“, fügte der Minister hinzu.

02.05.2022 - 16:05 [ Haaretz ]

Spanish Prime Minister, Defense Minister Hacked Using Israel‘s Pegasus Spyware in 2021, Officials Say

Israel‘s NSO Group, the cyber offensive firm which developed Pegasus, said it was unfamiliar with the details of the specific case and, as a software provider, cannot know who the targets of its customers are.

Spain’s government is under pressure to explain why the cellphones of dozens of people connected to the separatist movement in the northeastern Catalonia region were infected with Pegasus between 2017 and 2020, according to cybersecurity experts’ group Citizen Lab.

28.03.2022 - 18:44 [ Süddeutsche ]

Warme Worte in der Wüste

Fast hat es ausgesehen wie eine gymnastische Übung: Sechs zumeist ältere Herren in einer Reihe, die sich mit verschränkten Armen an den Händen fassen. Doch diese Formation, die am Montag von sechs leibhaftigen Außenministern auf einem Podium in der israelischen Negev-Wüste gebildet wurde, war als politische Botschaft gedacht.

28.03.2022 - 18:34 [ ]

Summit to Become Regular Forum, Unity Will ‚Deter Iran,‘ Israel‘s Lapid Says

Decrying terror and envisioning peace, the foreign ministers of Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain, the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates seek to counter Iran through ‚new regional architecture‘

27.03.2022 - 15:51 [ MoroccoLatestNews.com ]

Burita speaks with Sergei Lavrov

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, had a telephone conversation on Tuesday 22 March with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.

It should be noted that the Kingdom preferred not to take part in the vote on the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, calling on Russia to “immediately cease the use of force against Ukraine”.

27.03.2022 - 14:11 [ Haaretz ]

Egypt to Join Summit With Blinken, FMs of UAE, Bahrain and Morocco in Israel

Egypt will be joining a historic summit of Middle Eastern foreign ministers in Israel next week, alongside U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the senior diplomats of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.

27.03.2022 - 14:02 [ theHill.com ]

Blinken tries to calm allies ahead of Iran nuke deal

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday tried to soothe the fears of Israel and its Gulf Arab allies ahead of the possible renewal of global powers’ international nuclear deal with Iran.

Blinken made the comments shortly before joining his counterparts from Israel and four Arab countries at a special gathering where the Iranian nuclear deal was expected to top the agenda.

02.01.2022 - 15:59 [ BMedia / Twitter ]

Morocco – Nador [Jan 1, 2022] Protest by lawyers against the vax passport before the Nador Court of Appeal in #Morocco

#NoVaccinePassports #NoGreenPass #NoAlPaseSanitario #Freedomrally #DoNotComply #NonAuPassSanitaire #EindeLockdownNu #PassaporteSanitarioNao #Widerstand

23.09.2021 - 16:35 [ ORF ]

Algerien sperrt Luftraum für marokkanische Flugzeuge

Die traditionell schwierigen Beziehungen zwischen Algerien und Marokko waren durch den Streit um die Westsahara in jüngster Zeit erneut belastet worden.

22.09.2021 - 18:09 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Peru und Bolivien nehmen diplomatische Beziehungen mit Westsahara wieder auf

Sowohl Bolivien als auch Peru haben ihre diplomatischen Beziehungen mit der Demokratischen Arabischen Republik Sahara wieder aufgenommen.

21.03.2021 - 13:14 [ theGuardian.com ]

Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco ‚told of delay in Covid jabs from India‘

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has told Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco that further supplies of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine will be delayed because of surging demand at home and work on capacity expansion, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

02.03.2021 - 12:46 [ Tagesschau ]

Regierung in Marokko: Kontakt zu deutscher Botschaft offenbar gekappt

Das geht aus einem Schreiben des marokkanischen Außenministeriums hervor, aus dem marokkanische Medien zitieren. Als Begründung wurden demnach tiefgreifende Missverständnisse zwischen Marokko und Deutschland angegeben.

13.12.2020 - 01:32 [ France24 ]

US adopts map of Morocco that includes Western Sahara

The prime minister of Algeria — Morocco‘s neighbour and regional rival, and the key foreign backer of the Polisario Front — on Saturday criticised „foreign manoeuvres“ that he said aimed to „destabilise Algeria“.

13.11.2020 - 17:59 [ teleSUR ]

Polisario Front Declares War on Morocco

Western Sahara is a territory occupied by Morocco since 1975 when the African ex-colony was abandoned by Spain. Since then, an armed dispute between Morocco and the Saharawis was maintained, ending in 1991 with a peace treaty that would lead to a referendum on self-determination, which to date has not taken

13.11.2020 - 14:13 [ France24 ]

Morocco sends troops to Western Saraha border to end Polisario ‚provocations‘

Rabat controls 80 percent of the territory, including its phosphate deposits and its lucrative ocean fisheries.

07.10.2020 - 04:18 [ Xinhuanet ]

UN counter-terrorism office establishes African bureau in Morocco

The agreement was signed via videoconference by UNOCT Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, according to Moroccan official news agency MAP.

02.10.2020 - 23:32 [ Xinhuanet ]

Morocco, U.S. sign 10-year military cooperation road map: sources

The agreement was signed in the capital Rabat by Morocco‘s Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita and visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

11.09.2020 - 10:17 [ MoroccoWorldNews.com ]

Libyan Parties Reach ‘Comprehensive Agreement’ After Talks in Morocco

Rabat – The delegations of the Libyan High Council of State and the Parliament of Tobruk have reached an agreement after five days of talks in Bouznika, Morocco.

In a joint statement on Thursday, the two parties announced that they reached a comprehensive agreement on the criteria, mechanisms, and objectives for “assuming positions of sovereignty,” according to Morocco’s Foreign Ministry.

11.09.2020 - 10:01 [ ORF.at ]

Libysche Konfliktparteien erzielen erste Einigung

Libyens Kriegsgegner haben sich nach eigenen Angaben nach fünftägigen Gesprächen in Marokko über die Besetzung von Schlüsselpositionen in dem Bürgerkriegsland geeinigt. Es sei eine „umfassende Vereinbarung über Kriterien und Mechanismen“ erreicht worden, hieß es gestern in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Einzelheiten wurden nicht genannt.

10.09.2020 - 23:20 [ Xinhuanet ]

Morocco, France discuss military cooperation

The French chief of Defense Staff is leading a large military delegation on a working visit to Morocco between September 9-13.

26.07.2020 - 22:39 [ The Peninsula ]

Morocco shuts down major cities after spike in coronavirus cases

The cities to be locked down include the economic powerhouse of Casablanca as well as Tangier, Marrakech, Fez and Meknes.

22.06.2020 - 08:24 [ Haaretz ]

Israel‘s NSO Helped Moroccan Gov‘t Spy on Journalist, Amnesty Claims

Israeli cyber espionage company NSO provided tools that helped the Moroccan regime track a local journalist named Omar Radi, according to a thorough investigation that human rights organization Amnesty International conducted over the past few months. The report was released on Monday.

The espionage against Radi began only a few days after NSO ostensibly committed itself to a new policy of transparency in keeping with the United Nations’ human rights guidelines for companies, according to the Amnesty investigation.

22.06.2020 - 01:06 [ Tagesschau ]

Journalist mit „Pegasus“ ausgespäht?

Das Programm, das auf sein Handy gespielt worden sein soll, soll laut Amnesty-Analyse von der israelischen Firma NSO stammen und nennt sich „Pegasus“. Mithilfe der Software ist es möglich, jegliche Kommunikation eines Mobiltelefons mitzuschneiden – egal, ob es sich dabei um Telefonate, SMS oder E-Mails handelt. Offiziell wird die NSO-Software zur Jagd auf Verbrecher und Terroristen eingesetzt.

16.06.2020 - 13:02 [ MDR ]

Westsahara-Konflikt Wie die EU in Afrika hilft, ein Volk zu unterdrücken

1991 hatten die Vereinten Nationen (UN) einen Waffenstillstand vermittelt. Darin war das Versprechen enthalten, dass die Saharauis abstimmen dürften, ob sie zu Marokko gehören oder unabhängig sein wollen. Doch bis heute wartet das Nomadenvolk auf diese Abstimmung – und bis heute kommt es in dem besetzten Gebiet immer wieder zu Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch Marokko.

03.02.2020 - 03:22 [ The Times of Israel ]

Morocco’s military said to receive 3 Israeli reconnaissance drones

Morocco’s military reportedly took possession last week of three Israeli-made reconnaissance drones, sold to the Arab nation via France, despite the lack of any formal relations between the two countries.

The drones, of the “Heron” long-endurance models developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, were bought for some $48 million, according to French website Intelligence Online.