US AFRICA Command Commander Stephen Townsend

Ethiopia: Speaker of Upper House of Parliament steps down

The Speaker of the Upper House of the Ethiopian Parliament, Keria Ibrahim, resigned from her post on Monday June 8. The resignation is an apparent protest at the postponement of planned elections in the Horn of Africa country over the coronavirus. Keria Ibrahim accuses the Prime Minister and his government of breaking the law and […]

Morocco Offers Tip-off Leading to Arrest of IS member in Bulgaria

Moroccan Interpol offered crucial information that helped Bulgaria’s security forces arrest an IS member returning from the battlefield in Syria through Turkey, international media said. The suspect, who is of Moroccan origin, was arrested in possession of belt explosives, hand grenades, firearms and ammunitions, the Haskovo court said in a statement adding that he “will […]

Morocco: CNDH Elected to Board of Directors of Global Alliance of Rights Institutions

Morocco’s National Human Rights Council (CNDH) has been elected lately member of the Geneva-based Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), representing the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI). During the latest General Assembly of NANHRI, CNDH was also re-elected member of the Sub-Committee of Accreditation (SCA) of GANHRI and member of […]