A court in capital Tunis handed a 15-year prison sentence to Sakhr El Matri, the son-in-law of late president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, on corruption charges. El Matri according to media reports is mired in a corruption and administrative orders overrunning case involving a company that belonged to him in 2008. The ruling is […]
The African Lion military exercises kicked off with the participation of about 1300 military personnel from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Spain and Tunisia. “We are excited to conduct training with our Moroccan partners. African Lion gives us the ability to enhance our operational capabilities in an unfamiliar, yet non-austere, […]
Morocco’s parliamentary elections approach on October 7 in a climate marked by fierce rivalry between the two main contending parties: the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) and the Secular Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM). This de facto polarization of the Moroccan partisan scene is manifested in the speculations on future coalitions led either […]
