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Morocco implements major electoral reforms ahead of 2026 legislative elections

Morocco’s government has approved comprehensive electoral and political party reforms targeting the September 2026 legislative elections, responding to mounting concerns over corruption and public trust in the political system. The reforms, adopted during a Council of Ministers meeting chaired by King Mohammed VI on October 19, include measures barring individuals with legal convictions from candidacy, […]

Tunisia: 10 people sentenced to 48 years in prison on terrorism charges

A court in capital Tunis Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five women, to 48 years in prison after they were convicted for forming a terror group.   The defendants were arrested in 2017 in several governorates in the north of the country.   They admitted the formation of the terror cell and allegiance to the […]

Why Algeria and the Polisario inflate number of Sahrawis in Tindouf camps

For decades, Algeria and its creation, the Polisario, have been inflating the numbers of the people held in the South-Western Algerian camps while preventing the UN from carrying out a head-count and maintaining a media blackout on human rights there.   Algeria and the Polisario speak of 165,000 people in the camps and stress on […]