King Chairs meeting on vocational training

France: Opinion Divided over State Payment of Salah Abdeslam’s Lawyer

Increasing number of voices, including families of Paris attacks victims, have expressed their discontent over the payment by the State of a lawyer to assist Salah Abdeslam in the process of investigations. The suspect number one in the attacks is now in custody in France. Elisabeth Boissinot, mother of a 25-year-old young woman killed in […]

WB approves $275 million loan to help Morocco manage natural risks

The World Bank approved a $275 million Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan for Morocco designed to both help the country strengthen its capacity to manage the financial impact of natural disasters and climate-related shocks, and to upgrade its institutional framework for disaster risk management. Morocco has been hit in recent years by the impact […]

Sahara: Will MINURSO be axed by Trump Administration?

The Trump administration and the United Nations can save a lot of money by eliminating failed peacekeeping missions such as the MINURSO, said Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In an Op-Ed published by the Washington-based think-tank, Mr. Rubin said the U.S. recognizes the Moroccanness of the Sahara and subsidizing that […]