International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all mass deportations of Sub Sharan migrants. The call was expressed in a statement released Friday after Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1400 sub-Saharan migrants in Algiers and deported them […]
A sweeping new offensive by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nasrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in western Mali is rapidly reshaping the Sahel conflict, expanding both the geographic reach and economic impact of militant Islamist violence in the region, according to a new study by the Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS). Led by the Maçina Liberation […]
Morocco’s tourism continues its impressive performance with 10% increase in receipts to 8.8 billion dirhams or 880 million dollars, the foreign exchange office said. Remittances from Moroccans living abroad rose 0.5% to 950 million dollars in the first month this year. Foreign direct investments jumped 24% to 500 million dirhams, helping attenuate the country’s current […]
