Raja & Widad

COVID-19: Lockdown easing extended throughout Morocco with exception of five provinces

A gradual easing of the COVID-19-induced lockdown measures will be extended throughout Morocco, including in Rabat and Casablanca, as of June 24 at midnight, with the exception of five provinces where new clusters have been reported, the Interior and Health Ministries said in a joint statement. The excluded provinces are Tangier, Asilah, Marrakech, Larache, and […]

Number of Tunisian IS-Affiliated Terrorists in Libya in Sharp Decline, AFRICOM

The US Defense Department’s military section for Africa, AFRICOM has told Associated Press (AP) that the number of Tunisian terrorists affiliated to the Islamic State group in Libya has fallen from 5,000 fighters to a few hundreds. According to a 2015 UN report, Tunisia was the largest terrorist supplier, as over 5,000 Tunisians had left […]

Tunisia: Son-in-law of deposed President Ben Ali sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia

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 […]