ECOWAS

MEPs Continue to Express Support for EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and EU legal experts continue to express support for a renewal of the Morocco-EU fisheries agreement while challenging the non-binding opinion of European Court of Justice Advisor Melchior Wathelet. In a wave of articles critical of the pro-Polisario opinion by Wathelet, French Socialist member of the European Parliament, Gilles […]

Mali: Choguel Kokalla Maïga resumes office as PM of Transition after sick leave

Colonel Assimi Goïta, leader of the transition in Mali, reinstated Sunday Choguel Kokalla Maïga as interim Prime Minister of the transition after the latter bowed out of the position owing to sickness in August. Goïta announced in a decree the end of the role of Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, appointed as caretaker Prime Minister after Choguel […]

Journalist of Moroccan origin bestowed a prestigious American prize

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has bestowed its International Leadership Award to journalist and writer of Moroccan origin Souad Mekhennet, a Washington Post’s international correspondent. The Moroccan-born journalist to a Moroccan father and a Turkish mother will receive the award on January 14, 2020, at the Los Angeles Tolerance Museum, the US-based Center announced Monday in […]