Firefighting teams in northern Morocco are continuing their battle against a major wildfire that has scorched approximately 500 hectares of forest and farmland in the Chefchaouen province, the national water and forests agency, ANEF, said. The blaze, fueled by strong hot winds, broke out on Tuesday, August 12, around 2:00 pm in the rural commune […]
Ethiopia will release from jail 63 opposition activists and other high-ranking government critics by the end of the week, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Tuesday. The decision had been taken “for the national good” and investigations against them had been dropped, Zinabu Tubu was quoted as saying. “The Ethiopian […]
The CIA has made available online 930,000 declassified files, that is about 13 million pages, of which 6597 documents are related to Morocco. The trove had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland and was made searchable online after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA. […]
