Morocco Bound

A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still inside the Spanish enclave, the city's top official said Thursday. "We calculate that 3,000 people are still here -- both adults and minors -- of the...

Quiet on the media front After reading the AFP dispatch, I spent some time searching for a US Africom press release or statement of sort, and to my surprise not much can be found. No big text, no photos, no video, except for the content that was published months ago...

Jailed Moroccan journalist tells judge: “I want to go back to die in prison." 11 June 2021: The trial of Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni, who has been on hunger strike for 64 days, was Thursday again postponed to June 15 after a tense hearing where his...

The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence at a Spanish hospital sparked a diplomatic row with Rabat, left Spain overnight and flew to Algeria, a government source said Wednesday. He's "in Algeria," the source told AFP.  Late on Tuesday,...