ICSID rejects most Corral Holding’s claims in Samir refinery case

the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank rejected most of the claims of Corral Morocco Holding, owned by Saudi billionaire Al Amoudi in a case filed against the Moroccan government over the shut-down of Samir refinery. The arbitration institution ordered Morocco to pay just 6% of the total 2.7 […]

Landmark ruling finds Belgium guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo

The Court of Appeals in Brussels has ruled that Belgium must pay reparations to five women who were forcibly taken from their mothers and put in orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when it was still a Belgian colony because they were victims of “systematic kidnapping” by state. The appellate judges thus overturned […]

Occupied Ceuta at Heart of NATO-Russia Row over Warship Refuelling

The Moroccan Spanish-occupied city of Sebta (internationally known as Ceuta) was at the heart of a row after NATO voiced concerns over the refuelling of Russian warships in the city’s port, on the strait of Gibraltar. A group of warships including Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, are reportedly refuelling at sea off Ceuta’s […]