The Spanish interior ministry announced Sunday the arrest of 30 members of a drug trafficking gang in the south of the country, with the help of Morocco’s authorities. The men, Spaniards and Moroccans, are member of “Las Castanas”; the largest drug trafficking and money laundering gang in Spain. The gang was operating in the Strait […]
Mauritanians voted in an election over that weekend that was boycotted by most of the radical opposition. While the country’s current President, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, is expected to retain power, the formerly banned Islamist party Tewassoul that wants to establish Sharia law looks poised to win seats in parliament. It was the first time […]
Security forces at the Tanger-Med Port have thwarted an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of synthetic drugs into Morocco, in a joint operation between Morocco’s national police and customs services on Friday. According to a security source, border inspection and search procedures led to the seizure of 140,000 ecstasy pills that had been carefully […]
