Italian group Lottomatica is set to absorb Spain’s Cirsa in a €2.8 billion merger. If the deal goes through, the four casinos operated by Cirsa in Morocco, including La Mamounia’s Grand Casino, will become part of a group based in Rome.
Hakim Ziyech had agreed to join Botafogo, recorded his presentation video and was due to fly to Brazil on Sunday. The Moroccan then asked for time to think, before negotiations resumed.
A Moroccan woman had been waiting for nearly eleven months for the renewal of her residence permit. The prefecture responded neither to her request nor in court. The judge has now ordered it to provisionally issue the permit, subject to a penalty, and to pay €1,100.
The European Commission is preparing a general ban on waste exports to non-OECD countries. Morocco, which had requested to continue receiving them after May 2027, would be directly affected if the text is adopted.
A member of the Polisario Front was reportedly killed in an airstrike targeting suspicious movements east of the defense wall, in the Sahara. The operation is attributed to a drone belonging to the Royal Armed Forces (FAR).
Pedro Sánchez told Parliament that he had summoned Morocco’s ambassador to protest statements about Ceuta and Melilla. Spain’s Foreign Ministry later acknowledged that Karima Benyaich was absent and that another diplomat had attended the meeting.
The investigation is progressing following the death of a 41-year-old Moroccan man, shot several times in northern Italy. The carabinieri are now focusing their investigations on two people who may belong to a rival group involved in drug trafficking.
The Badr Hari case is deepening in the Netherlands. Already suspected of making threats and insults, the Moroccan kickboxer is now also under investigation for stalking. Police also suspect a violation of the no-contact order imposed on him after he assaulted his former partner.
Under Rabat, work on the future Kénitra-Marrakech TGV has reached a new stage. A 3.3-kilometre railway tunnel is to cross part of the capital, allowing high-speed trains to reach Rabat-Agdal without disrupting surface traffic.
A 15% increase in the minimum wage, social assistance raised to 1,000 dirhams, unemployment benefits of up to 7,500 dirhams and 15,000 nurses recruited: the PPS has just unveiled its main promises for the legislative elections on 23 September.
Moroccans who have completed their prison sentences in Algeria are reportedly still being held in administrative detention while awaiting their return to the kingdom. More than 800 cases have now been recorded, and the situation has officially reached the Moroccan Parliament.
Irish justice authorities are searching for a 50-year-old Moroccan man whose true identity has still been impossible to verify. Initially brought before the court under the name “Unknown Unknown,” he was granted bail before ceasing to appear before the judge.