Several Moroccans from Spain are stranded in Morocco due to the difficulty of getting an appointment in the Spanish consulates to obtain a visa. They denounce the existence of a fraudulent network selling appointments.
The Othman Benjelloun group, O Capital Group, is reshuffling the cards in the Moroccan maritime transport sector. The Compagnie de Transports au Maroc (CTM) is taking over the majority stake (51%) in Africa Morocco Link (AML) held by Bank Of Africa.
Sidra Atmane, 4 years old, a student at the Sint-Martinusschool in Burcht, was seriously injured last Friday during the gymnastics class. Transported to the hospital in critical condition, the Moroccan-origin girl finally died on Tuesday. Her family is devastated.
In Flanders, the axe has fallen on nearly 500 social housing tenants, including Moroccans, who were unmasked as owners of real estate abroad within three years. A figure that represents more than half of the cases checked and highlights a fraudulent system with international ramifications.
While she has spent 21 years in Spain, has been a victim of domestic violence, has Spanish children and has been remarried to a Spaniard for a few years, a 41-year-old Moroccan woman is facing the enormous difficulty of obtaining Spanish nationality.
The French government has put in place new mechanisms, some of which concern the control of retirees receiving a French pension abroad, particularly in Morocco and Algeria, in order to fight against social fraud.
The Spanish Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced on Monday that an investigation has been opened to shed light on the death of the young Moroccan asylum seeker who had started a hunger strike in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) to protest the lack of an appointment.
The Ministry of the Interior has lifted the requirement for Moroccan mothers (Moroccan women) to obtain the father’s authorization for the issuance or renewal of Moroccan passports for their minor children. This new measure has been implemented in the Moroccan consulates in New York (United States) and Madrid (Spain).
Moroccans residing in France have created a company whose subsidiary based in Casablanca has been used to seize real estate properties, with the complicity of a French notary. The latter was responsible for producing falsified wills, used before the Moroccan justice system and the land registry.
Nadia Zein left her native Morocco at the age of 10 to join Spain. Today, the young woman living in Valencia is involved in fashion where she manages to create a fusion between Moroccan and Spanish culture.
For a few years now, Moroccan students have been at the top of the ranking of foreign students in France. They contribute to the country’s economy, to the strengthening of the French workforce, but also to the strengthening of diplomatic ties between Rabat and Paris. An opportunity that the controversial immigration law almost made France lose.
Two Dutch nationals, a 31-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, were arrested on Wednesday in the Netherlands for their alleged involvement in the murder of Firdaous , the 11-year-old girl killed by a bullet in Antwerp in January 2023. The woman was released on Friday while the man remains in custody.