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Morocco businessman jailed over 29 deaths in factory floodF

The owner of a Moroccan textiles workshop where 29 workers drowned, most of them women, in a flood in February was sentenced to 18 months in prison, a lawyer said Thursday. The workers were trapped as heavy rains flooded the basement factory in the northern city of...

Morocco: Former rights minister Mohammed Ziane to be tried for adulteryF

A Moroccan former rights minister who has become an outspoken government critic said Wednesday he was facing charges of adultery and contempt of court.  Mohammed Ziane said he will go on trial December 9, more than a year after he accused the kingdom's security...

Libyan journalist Siraj Abdelhafid al-Mogassbi kidnapped in BenghaziF

A Libyan journalist was kidnapped Monday in the country's second city Benghazi, the government media authority said. Siraj Abdelhafid al-Mogassbi was seized from the offices of Al-Hayat newspaper where he works, it said in a statement. It said unknown assailants...

Criminality: Drug baron Hambli arrested in Moroccan hospitalF

A notorious French drug baron who skipped bail in March this year has been re-arrested in a Morocco hospital where he is being treated for a serious facial wound, security sources told AFP on Monday.  Sofiane Hambli, a 46-year-old Franco-Algerian, used false papers to...

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