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U.S.-Based NGO Calls on Algerian Regime to Stop Targeting Journalists

The New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Algerian regime to immediately release freelance journalist and blogger Mourad At-Mimou and stop targeting journalists for their online commentary. Algerian plainclothes police officers arrested At-Mimou on July 7, while he was at a café in Tizi-Ouzou, in northern Algeria’s Kabylia region, according to a […]

Moroccan police foils drug trafficking operation in Nador

Moroccan police in the north-eastern city of Nador foiled Wednesday morning an international drug trafficking operation and seized 12,800 kg of cannabis resin.   The police seized in the town of Izzan (province of Nador) a truck with false registration plates, loaded with cannabis resin, and arrested three suspects with criminal records, national police said […]

Morocco’s legal cannabis harvest at 294 tons in 2023

Morocco reported a legal harvest of 294 tons of cannabis, the first since the country allowed the cultivation of the plant for medical and industrial purposes, the national agency for the regulations of activities linked to cannabis ANRAC said. The news was first reported by le360 citing ANRAC which said it offered permits to farmers […]