The Pigeon Express
Moroccan authorities say the bodies of eight migrants have washed ashore in southern Morocco after their dinghy capsized. The bodies were found early Monday in the coastal town of Akhfennir, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast facing the Spanish Canary Islands, authorities there said late Monday. They said 18 other migrants who’d been in the capsized dinghy […]
Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France, in the grip of a heatwave that shows no sign of easing. In northern Portugal, a pilot died when his waterbombing plane crashed in the Foz Coa area, near the Spanish border. Fires are ravaging areas of France’s Gironde region, where more than […]
Wildfires have swept across parts of northern Morocco in the last few days, in the forests of Taza, Tetouan and Larache, leading to scenes of raging infernos and plumes of thick smoke. The ferocious blazes have been blamed on soaring temperatures reaching around 45C and droughts. At least one person died and more than 1,000 […]
A public funeral has been held for a five-year-old boy who fell down well in Morocco, prompting large-scale but ultimately unsuccessful rescue efforts. Large crowds gathered in the village of Ighran to mourn the boy, Rayan Oram, who was trapped in the hole for several days as rescue crews attempted to dig deep into difficult […]
A five-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for four days has died, despite painstaking efforts to rescue him. A royal statement announced his death soon after his removal from the well. The bid to free the boy, named as Rayan, had gripped the country, with hundreds of people gathered at the well […]
Rescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation. They worked through the night to reach the boy, named by local media as Rayan, who plunged 32 meters through the well’s narrow opening four days ago. Rescuers said […]
Morocco has been gripped by efforts to rescue a child who fell into a well near the northern city of Chefchaouen. The child, who local media have identified as a five-year-old boy named Rayan, was reportedly playing near the well in the town of Tamrout, 100km from Chefchaouen. Rayan is believed to have fallen about […]
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations that Moroccan intelligence services spied on several French journalists using the Pegasus software at the heart of a global scandal. The probe announced on Tuesday will examine 10 different charges, including whether there was a breach of personal privacy, fraudulent access to personal electronic devices and criminal […]
Spain has sent 2,700 people back to Morocco, out of the more than 6,000 who swam from the North African country into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta over the past two days. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska confirmed the move on Tuesday, adding that Madrid has sent 200 extra police to Ceuta to reinforce the 1,200 […]
A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies after medics missed two on her scans and told her she would have seven. Halima Cisse, 25, and all five girls and four boys are ‘doing fine’ after a cesarean section was carried out successfully in Morocco. Ms Cisse was flown from the north of the poor […]
At least twenty-four people died after heavy rains caused floods in an underground textile workshop in a private house in Morocco’s Tangier city, state news media reported. Rescue workers recovered 24 bodies from the property and rescued ten survivors who were taken to hospital. Authorities have been continuing rescue operations and an investigation into the […]
The US government has moved ahead with a USD $1 billion weapons sale to Morocco, a day after Morocco had agreed to normalise diplomatic ties with Israel, according to Reuters. The news agency reported that the Trump administration sent a notification to Congress about the proposed arms sale. The proposal is suppose to include four […]