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Morocco: Dozen undocumented Sudanese migrants get 3 years in Moroccan prisonF

A Moroccan appeals court has sentenced 12 Sudanese migrants to three years in jail over violence in the run-up to a June 24 border tragedy in which two dozen migrants died, a rights group said Friday. Around 2,000 people, many of them Sudanese, stormed the frontier on...

Moroccan court sentences French narcotrafficker Sofiane Hambli to 20 years in prisonF

A Moroccan court has sentenced a French drug boss to 20 years in prison on a string of narcotics charges, a court official said Friday. Sofiane Hambli had skipped bail in France in March last year while on trial over an alleged cannabis shipment, but he was...

Podcast: Algeria-Morocco rivalry intensifies, with no end in sightF

The escalating rivalry between Algeria and Morocco has had a destabilizing effect on the Maghreb region of North Africa. In fact, the entire western Mediterranean region is feeling the impact of the two countries’ strange competitive postures. Instead of cooperating...

How the Western Sahara conflict has become a thorny issue for a neutral Tunisia ($)F

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Morocco applies for $5 bil IMF loan, likely to get the loanF

Mar 9, 2023

On 6 March 2023, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board met in an informal session to consider a...

Maghreb competition: The ridiculous debate over who should claim ownership of the Haiek veilF

Maghreb competition: The ridiculous debate over who should claim ownership of the Haiek veilF

Mar 9, 2023

Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Competition between the regimes of Algeria and Morocco has gone mainstream. Now Algerians and...

Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prisonF

Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prisonF

Feb 21, 2023

A Moroccan appeals court halved the sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane, jailed for social media posts calling...

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