Video: Tunisia’s Ex-PM Ali Laarayedh detained by police

Sep 21, 2022

1262 issue: week ending 23 September 2022

Tunisia’s anti-terrorism police detained for one day Ali Laarayedh,
a former prime minister and senior official in the Islamist opposition Ennahda party,
after an investigation into suspicions of sending jihadists to Syria, lawyers said on Tuesday. (France 24)

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DISCOVERY NORTH AFRICA

In Morocco hills, cannabis farmers bet on budding industry • FRANCE 24 English

In the hills of northern Morocco, vast cannabis fields are ready for harvest, but farmers complain that a government plan to market the crop legally is yet to deliver them any benefits. The marginalised Rif region has long been a major source of illicit hashish smuggled to Europe while Moroccan authorities, wary of social unrest, have often turned a blind eye.
#Morocco #cannabis #legalisation

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