Moroccan activists call for de-criminalizing extramarital relationships

Moroccan activists launched on social media a campaign to de-penalize extra-marital consensual sex after a woman in Tetuan was handed a one-month jail term. The woman was a victim of revenge porn after her video went viral on Moroccan social media triggering her arrest and indictment by virtue of Article 490 of the penal code […]

Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces set up security cordon to secure flow of goods, people at Guerguarat

The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) set up, on the night of Thursday to Friday, a security cordon in order to secure the flow of goods and people across the Guerguarat buffer zone, linking Morocco to Mauritania, a statement from the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces said on Friday. After the intervention of the […]

Mauritania: Private Newspapers Go off to Protest Difficult Work Conditions

Mauritania’s main stream private newspapers have chosen to go off on Wednesday in a move to denounce unbearable work conditions coupled with authorities’ tight grip on private media, reports say. The Wednesday action is undertaken “to protest against the situation of deep crisis that Mauritanian private newspapers are stranded in,” said Sy Mamadou, Chief Editor […]