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Morocco: Islamist PJD party suffers crushing defeat in legislative elections

The September 8 elections in Morocco were propitious to the liberal RNI party, chaired by Aziz Akhannouch, as it won 102 seats in the 395-member House of Representatives. Such was not the case for the Islamist PJD party, which led the government for two successive terms, since 2011. The PJD actually suffered a crushing defeat, […]

EU welcomes Morocco’s decision to facilitate return of unaccompanied minors

The European Union (EU) has welcomed again Morocco’s decision to definitively settle the issue of unaccompanied minors in Europe. “The EU welcomes Morocco’s decision to facilitate the return of unaccompanied and duly identified Moroccan minors,” a spokesperson of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy told MAP on Tuesday. She underlined that “for years, […]

Six hundred undocumented Egyptians to be deported from Libya

Libya has begun the deportation of 600 undocumented Egyptians who sneaked illegally into the oil-rich African country used as a launch-pad for crossing the Mediterranean for Europe. Mohamad Bardaa, deputy for security affairs at the Directorate of Combating Illegal Migration answering to the Tripoli-based government, told AFP that deportees had entered Libya illegally, Ahram Online […]