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Migration: Migrants rescued off the coast of MoroccoF

The Moroccan navy on Tuesday rescued 63 migrants including 15 women and three children after their vessel started to sink as they tried to reach the Canary Islands, activists said. Alarm Phone, which provides an emergency hotline for migrants in trouble at sea, said...
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Morocco: 43 drowned as migrant boat capsizes off MoroccoF

Forty-three migrants including three infants died after their boat capsized off the coast of Tarfaya in southern Morocco, Spanish organisation Caminando Fronteras said Monday. Ten people were rescued from the shipwreck, the organisation's spokesperson told AFP. The...
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Human Rights: Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni maintains his innocence during appeal hearingF

A Moroccan journalist sentenced to five years in prison for indecent assault in a controversial case proclaimed his innocence Monday at the start of an appeal hearing. Soulaimane Raissouni, 49, who was sentenced in July last year, is the latest journalist critical of...
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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...
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