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Morocco: Big test for monarchy and Islamist party as Moroccans are set to pick new assembly
Campaigning began in Morocco Thursday for September 8 elections that will seal the fate of the Moroccan Islamist party which heads the current government coalition. Nearly 18 million citizens, 46 percent of them women, will be eligible to vote to choose 395 deputies...
Morocco to close its Algiers embassy after ties cut
Algeria cuts ties with Morocco after months of diplomatic turmoil
Morocco: Woman to walk free after more than 3 years in prison over religious views
A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for "insulting Islam" will walk free Monday after a court gave her a suspended two-month jail term, a rights group said. "She will be leaving prison Monday evening," a member of Morocco's Association of...
Algeria and Morocco squabble again, relations set to deteriorate further
Morocco: Wildfires in the Chefchaouen region
Morocco: Rights group criticizes Spain for sending minors back to Morocco
Morocco piles more charges on jailed journalist Omar Radi
Covid-19 in the Maghreb: More restrictions in Morocco, peak infection in Tunisia and panic in Algeria
Western Sahara: Spanish court closes case against Polisario leader Brahim Ghali
Spain's top criminal court said Thursday it had archived a case involving genocide allegations against the leader of Western Sahara's independence movement. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Polisario Front, had testified before the National Court on June 1 in connection...
Reporters Without Borders retracts accusation that Algeria used Pegasus spyware
Morocco grapples with the Pegasus spyware problem
Morocco punishes journalist Omar Radi, sentences him to six years in prison
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years in jail on charges of espionage and rape, stirring condemnation from rights groups. Radi's trial opened in June last year, just days after rights...
Morocco accused of spying on its journalists with Israeli spyware
Morocco said Monday it "categorically rejects" claims its intelligence services had used Israeli spyware Pegasus to monitor critics at home and abroad, a government statement read. Rabat said it had "never acquired computer software to infiltrate communication...
Algeria-Morocco: Diplomatic tension over Moroccan diplomat’s support of Kabyle autonomy
Algeria recalled its ambassador in Morocco for consultations on Sunday as a new diplomatic spat broke out between the regional arch-rivals. The move came after Morocco's envoy to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, expressed support for self-determination for Algeria's...
A secret trial in Morocco
A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his supporters slammed as "a new violation". Radi has been in detention for almost a year on charges of espionage and rape which he denies. The judge in...
Morocco: Heightened migration crisis in western Med Sea
More than 300 migrants rescued off the coast of Morocco Morocco's navy has rescued 344 migrants, including women and children, after their makeshift boats ran into difficulty in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the MAP news agency reported Thursday. It said the...
Morocco experiencing scorching heatwave
Moroccan journalist Raissouni sentenced to five years in jail
Migrants: The deadly waters of the Western Mediterranean
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