King Mohammed VI has granted pardon to 5,654 detainees and gave orders to take all the necessary measures to strengthen the protection of inmates, particularly against the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, the Ministry of Justice announced this Sunday. “As part of the attention paid by the Sovereign to inmates in penitentiary and rehabilitation institutions, […]
A court in capital Tunis handed a 15-year prison sentence to Sakhr El Matri, the son-in-law of late president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, on corruption charges. El Matri according to media reports is mired in a corruption and administrative orders overrunning case involving a company that belonged to him in 2008. The ruling is […]
In Senegal, 2,300 localities were electrified between 2012 and 2018, the director general of the Senegalese Rural Electrification Agency (ASER) said. According to the Agency, the West African nation’s electrification rate was 24%, representing 1,640 electrified localities in 2012. However, last year, thanks to the efforts made by the State, 2,300 additional localities have been […]
