An Algerian diplomat has violently attacked a Moroccan counterpart at a meeting in Tokyo in preparation for the Tokyo Africa summit (TICAD). The Moroccan diplomat has protested to organizers the presence of “a country” nameplate that was laid on the table of the meeting by a polisario agent under an Algerian diplomatic cover. As he […]
The Mauritanian government was rebuked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for its failure to abolish entirely slavery practices, which remain widespread in the West African country. A heated exchange took place between the Mauritanian government and independent national and international NGO’s calling for abolishing the abhorrent slavery practice in Mauritania as part […]
Morocco’s navy rescued 54 Sub-Saharan migrants, including 7 women and a child, in the waters of the southern provinces, near Tan Tan. The migrants, who were heading to the Canary Islands, have received medical care before they were handed to the Royal Gendarmerie. Increasing numbers of migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa are trying the riskier Atlantic […]
