Qualified for the Round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup, Morocco receives international praise. Yet the neighboring television continues to ignore the successes of Mohamed Ouahbi’s players in its news broadcasts.
The French weekly Marianne (issue 1407) has been banned from distribution in Morocco, due to a caricature drawing deemed offensive to the prophet Muhammad.
Following the ban on the national and international distribution of the film Zanka Contact, the producers have complied with the regulator’s demands, announcing the removal of the controversial music.
The new Marvel film "The Eternals" has been banned in several Arab countries. The reason: a kiss between two men and mystical characters considered blasphemous.
The Salvados TV crew, which was preparing a report on the 28 victims of the flooding that occurred last February in an illegal textile workshop in Tangier, was expelled from Morocco by the police on Monday for lack of authorizations. Journalist Fernando González, known as "Gonzo", the presenter of the program, explained in a video posted on his Twitter account the reasons for this expulsion.
The latest issue of the French magazine Le Point would have been censored in Morocco . This is at least the observation made following the non-distribution of the April 22, 2021 issue on Moroccan territory.
Morocco has not made any significant progress in the fight against corruption. With a score of 40/100, it even loses one point compared to last year, ranking 86th out of 180 countries ranked, compared to 80th position a year earlier. This is the finding of the new Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 (CPI 2020) of Transparency International.
The audiovisual control body in Saudi Arabia has banned the broadcast of the film "Victims of the Lawful", where Moroccan actress Nisrine Erradi plays the lead role.
Five and a half years after the attacks perpetrated against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo , the French satirical weekly has decided to republish the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, in tribute to the killed journalists and cartoonists. A choice that does not go down well in Morocco.
Several thousand children are abandoned each year by their families, plunging the "kingdom into an unprecedented state of schizophrenia," says activist Aïcha Chenna .
The page of the Jamaa d’Al Adl Wa Ihssane (JAOI) organization has been removed from Facebook. This situation follows the publication by the organization of a statement in the name of the Moroccan body for the defense of the affairs of the Ummah, to protest against censorship by the social network.
Fouzi Lekjaâ, boss of Renaissance sportive de Berkane (RSB) and President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), has just been suspended for a period of one year by the Disciplinary Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This decision follows his altercation with the Ethiopian referee, Bamelak Tessama, during the final of the African Confederation Cup.