The Senegalese navy has seized 805 kg of cocaine during an operation off the coast of the West African country – a raid stressing the strategical position of the country in drug trafficking in West Africa. The country’s Directorate of Public Relations (Dirpa) announced Tuesday that the seizure was carried out on Sunday (Jan. 22) […]
The Moroccan parliament passed a law by overwhelming majority that offers the broad-lines for the reform of the education system including controversial provisions such as the promotion of French as a language of teaching scientific subjects. The adoption of the law came after months of disagreements mainly over the language of teaching sciences between the […]
Japan was the latest in a series of global powers that strongly reiterated their rejection of the Algerian-backed separatism in southern Morocco. The Japanese stance on the Sahara issue was expressed by Middle East and North Africa director at the foreign ministry Katsuhiko Takahashi who reaffirmed his country’s non-recognition of the Polisario self-declared SADR republic, […]
