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Emerging rural centers combat Morocco’s accelerating rural exodus

Emerging rural centers represent Morocco’s strategic response to demographic challenges facing countryside communities experiencing drought, water stress, and accelerating rural exodus effects, aiming to strengthen territorial resilience while supporting genuine rural middle class development. This evolving concept addresses rural depopulation dramatically accelerated by climate change and seven consecutive drought years. Developing authentic rural middle class […]

Gabon, Equatorial Guinea face off in ICJ over small islands

Equatorial Guinea has rejected a claim laid by Gabon at the International court of Justice in The Hague to islands that could have oil and gas resources. The two countries have been at loggerheads over Mbanie, an island of 30 hectares, and two other smaller islands nearby. The dispute is a relic of the French […]

Two Spaniards, two Moroccans arrested in possession of about 12 kg of gold

Moroccan police nabbed two Spaniards and two Moroccans in the city of Casablanca for illegal possession of 78 gold bars weighing 11.7 kg. The men were nabbed in a car with a foreign license plate in the city of Casablanca on friday, on tip-off from the national security directorate (DGSN).   Police discovered in the […]