When an Irish tourist bought an ornately carved, 15-centimeter tall statue for €60 in Morocco’s blue northern town, Chaouen, little did he expect that he acquired an ice age relic made from rhino horn thought to be 25,000-years-old. The Irish tourist visited Chaouen, a town in the Rif Mountains of northwest Morocco, inland from Tangier, […]
Moroccans mourned two of their nationals who have been killed by the Algerian coastal guard after having mistakenly trespassed into Algeria’s waters. The killing took place on Tuesday after a group of five Moroccan tourists, including three who also had French nationality, lost their way off Saidia resort and ended in Algerian waters where they […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on her country’s lawmakers to rethink restrictive arms export policies towards Africa, arguing the restrictions are not in Germany’s best interest. The chancellor, who was addressing the German parliament, the Bundestag, on Wednesday, made the case for more engagement in Africa’s Sahel region, where the threat of destabilization […]
