The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), or Morocco’s FBI, as it is called, dismantled, this Thursday, a six-member terrorist cell in the cities of Sidi Bennour, El Jadida, Mohammedia and Marrakech, in an operation that is part of continued efforts to foil terrorist threats linked to the Islamic State group. The cell is composed […]
Two leading opposition figures have been barred from running in presidential elections next month, the Constitutional Council said on Monday. Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Khalifa Sall, a former mayor of Dakar are barred from running the Feb. 24 poll as they were both jailed for graft and corruption […]
Morocco has been awarded a UNESCO prize in recognition of its efforts in promoting the gender approach in fisheries sciences. The award was handed by UNESCO Director Irina Bokova to Moroccan Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Aziz Akhannouch, at A ceremony organized by the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, on […]
