Written for us by Giovanni Vegezzi The situation of Sub-Saharan immigrants living in Morocco continues to be very difficult. A series of roundups were carried out by Moroccan police forces in the middle of January, on the eve of the meeting of foreign ministers from Mediterranean countries. North side and south side. The conference, continue...
Last month, on April 30, the Security Council of the United Nations has unanimously approved a resolution which restates the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people. Saharawi people’s land, the Western Sahara, has been occupied by Morocco after Spain which left the colony in 1975. On this topic, PeaceReporter has inteviewed Mr Omar Mih, spokesman of the Polisario Front in Italy, continue...
The escape in 2003 of Mohammed Mentala, alias Warda, came to an end on April 10 in the notorious el-Fida quarter in Casablanca. Some time after dawn, before Mentala could trigger off his explosive belt, an agent from the Moroccan police shot and killed him. More bombs in Casablanca. Instead, an accomplice managed to blow himself up who, according to Moroccan Intelligence sources from al-Jazeera, continue...
We “call upon all Member States to take the necessary measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girls and all harmful traditional or customary practices.” It sounds like a rhetorical statement, but it has an entirely different character when religious leaders and politicians coming from of the world’s 50 Islamic countries are the spokesmen. Religion and superstition. continue...
Last May 2, with a statement released through the Spanish press, prisoners in Morocco began a hunger struck that recently led to the death of one of them, Khalid al-Boukri. International media have so far treated the matter only superficially, perhaps because many of the striking prisoners were accused in the May, 2003 attack in Casablanca that killed forty-five people. continue...
Ahmed, who first entered Europe as a boy as an illegal alien, tells how people used to live and what he hopes for the future. The strange thing was to see last yearís high-fashion jeans at giveaway prices and designer sunglasses that few people could afford to buy. Normally, an average worker looks at them, admires them and maybe dreams of them at night. But in this case, on Amhed's stall, dreams can turn into reality. continue...
On January 7, 2003, Abderrahim and Bahia - two Moroccans - got married. There would be nothing extraordinary, but their story isn't a common one, given that they've been fiancees for some 24 years, possibly a world record. It isn't an eccentric choice, but a story of war that, as always, has marked their life. Abderrahim is a Moroccan man like many others. continue...
