King Mohammed VI & President Trump

Sierra Leone ordered to revoke ban on pregnant schoolgirls

West Africa’s top court on Thursday ordered Sierra Leone to revoke a ban on pregnant girls in school, a move activists hope could lead to challenges against similar laws across Africa. Sierra Leone’s ban was adopted in 2015 as teenage pregnancies rose during an Ebola epidemic. In October, the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary […]

Sudan: Nearly $4 billion seized from former President al-Bashir & clan

Since the former president of Sudan was arrested 13 months ago, seizures have been regular with him and his former collaborators. Few days after his arrest, nearly $130 million was found on his property, hidden in bags. Since then, the assets of his party, friends and relatives and the media close to him have either […]

Morocco Busts 9 Terror Cells, Arrests 189 Extremists in 2017

Moroccan authorities continued their unabated crackdown on terrorists in 2017 with the busting of nine terror cells and the arrest of 189 extremists and 20 returning foreign fighters. These figures were revealed by the chief of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Abdelhak Khiame who said that the total number of […]