A group of 100 young Ivorians including 14 females are due in Morocco shortly to undergo religious training in the Rabat-based Mohammed VI institute for the Training of Imams, Morchidines, and Morchidates (religious counselors) and be taught the precepts of moderate Islam as it is practiced in the North African country. According to Ivorian High […]
Electoral campaigns have started across Mauritania as politicians seek to woo 1.4 million voters in the upcoming parliamentary and municipal polls slated for Sept. 1. Several political parties held rallies in different parts of the northwest African country. Mauritania’s ruling Union for the Republic Party of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz listed its many “achievements” […]
As it seeks a scapegoat to pin its corruption scandals, the European Parliament picked Morocco by issuing a hostile resolution that interferes with Morocco’s judiciary. The resolution picked the cases of three journalists indicted on sexual assault charges to denounce Morocco for violating press freedom in a blatant disrespect for the victims as well as […]
