Human Rights Watch denounced on Wednesday the European Union decision to entrust the Libyan coast guards with the task of managing the waves of illegal African migrants who risk their lives to reach European shores. The EU’s obstruction of nongovernmental rescues and handover of responsibility to Libyan coast guard forces is a recipe for even […]
Journalist Hafsa Boutahar, who is suing her colleague Omar Radi for rape, has denounced the partiality and lack of support shown to her by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, expressing her determination to go “to the end” of the trial. The journalist, at a press conference in Rabat on Wednesday, March 10, lambasted the […]
Morocco is taking part in the UN-sponsored Geneva roundtable on the Sahara (Dec.5-6) with a delegation including two top diplomats and three representatives from the Sahara region. Delegates from Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario separatists are also participating in the meeting held at the invitation of UN Personal Envoy for the Sahara Horst Kohler who […]
