Morocco has been attacked by several international rights organizations demanding the release of a historian and rights activist who is in custody on money laundering charges. The government’s human rights inter-ministerial delegation reacted to the blatant interference in the independence of the Moroccan judiciary by organizations such as Amnesty by saying that human rights activists […]
A decrease in rainfall since 2015 combined with a surge in demand on water triggered a fall in dam filling rate to an average 45% nationwide. Drought has affected in particular this year’s cereals harvest, which was slashed by 49% to 3 million tons, and critically reduced water reserves in some regions. Water reserves fell […]
A court in capital Algiers Wednesday pressed a 15-year prison sentence associated with a $80,000-fine against former head of the national police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, charged with corruption and illicit enrichment. The Sidi M’hamed court also handed individual sentences to the family of the General and their company. Hamel’s wife Lanani Salima is handed […]
