Moroccan economy

Burundi’s ex-Premier appears in court for undermining national security

Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, a Burundi former Prime Minister arrested late last month has been charged for “undermining the internal security of the state, undermining the proper functioning of the national economy and illegal enrichment.” A session held Monday extended Bunyoni’s pre-trial detention at Ngozi Prison in the north of the country. The former Premier was […]

U.S. supports training of Morocco’s Royal Navy Special Forces

American and Moroccan military officials inaugurated on Thursday near the city of Tangier a 15-m high training tower for the Royal Moroccan Navy Special Forces. A team from the U.S. Navy Mobile Construction Battalion One worked with Moroccan Navy partners to complete construction of the tower, at a cost of $710,000. The U.S.-funded project started […]

Morocco’s legal cannabis trade struggles against black market dominance

In the scorching heat of Morocco’s Rif mountains, Abderrahman Talbi tends his cannabis plants without the fear that has haunted farmers here for generations. “I can now say I am a cannabis farmer without fear,” he tells Reuters. “Peace of mind has no price.” Two years after Morocco legalized cannabis cultivation for medical and industrial […]