Moroccan-Spanish joint security operation leads to arrest of extremists

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), a branch of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested on Tuesday, as part of a joint security operation with the Spanish police intelligence General Commissariat, an extremist active in Farkhana, in Nador region in Northeastern Morocco, similarly with the arrest by the Spanish authorities of other […]

Algeria grabs Moroccan earthquake to settle political scores

Algeria made so much fuss about sending unsolicited aid to Morocco, mobilizing its mouthpieces in the media and its own reporters working for foreign media to show rescuers waiting for Rabat’s green light. Even when Morocco thanked all the countries that offered aid and accepted help only from the UK, Spain, the UAE and Qatar, […]

After AI, HRW Decries Algeria for Ill-treatment of African Migrants

Algerian authorities have been rounding up sub-Saharan Africans in and around Algiers and have deported more than 3,000 to Niger since August 25, 2017, without giving them an opportunity to challenge their expulsion, Human Rights Watch said. Those expelled include migrants who have lived and worked for years in Algeria, pregnant women, families with newborn […]