Spain: Polisario supporter pleads guilty to terrorism charges

A Polisario supporter pleaded on Tuesday guilty in Spain to charges of promoting jihadist ideology and violent extremism through social media networks. The Spanish public prosecutor called for the defendant to be sent to jail for four years and six months for his hatred for Spain and extremist propaganda. But after pleading guilty to terrorism […]

Morocco: Mother & son nabbed for drug trafficking; sub-Saharan woman for illegal sale of alcoholic beverages

Moroccan interior security authorities have nabbed in capital Rabat a mother and her 44-year-old son charged of drug trafficking. The suspects were arrested Friday morning at Kamra bus station in the Moroccan capital after arriving from a town in the north part of the kingdom. They were nabbed on tipoffs provided by the internal security […]

Kenya offers to lead UN-backed police mission to restore order in crisis-hit Haiti

After nearly a year of calls from the Haiti’s prime minister for armed intervention from abroad, Kenya is the first country to have now offered to lead a police force to help restore order to the island nation, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence. UN Secretary-General António Guterres […]