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ILO Chief hails Morocco’s social inclusion & protection efforts

Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, has hailed the efforts made by Morocco to build a model social State thanks to the implementation of a comprehensive social inclusion and protection policy. Mr. Houngbo made the remarks on the sidelines of the visit he is paying since Monday to the North […]

Moroccan Alleged Terrorist Claims Abuses during Detention in GB

A Moroccan alleged jihadist who had been deported back home from Great Britain on Wednesday claimed he had been subjected to abuses and sexual assault during his detention. The Moroccan, Younes Tssouli, in his thirties, had lived in London for some ten years before being sentenced to a sixteen-year prison term for alleged cyber-jihadist activities […]

Is Morocco Becoming a New Migration Route to Fortress Europe?

In their quest to reach the European Eldorado, migrants are increasingly shunning the Libyan routes for security reasons in favor of the closer and less risky Moroccan-Spanish land and sea borders. Deaths in sea embarkations, almost impenetrable six-meter high fence and heavily patrolled land borders on the Moroccan and Spanish sides seem not dissuading thousands […]