former chief of French domestic intelligence agency Bernard Squarcini

Morocco: Social protection generalization project on track; implementation to be monitored by inter-ministerial committee

The implementation of the project to generalize social protection will be monitored by an inter-ministerial committee, whose creation was announced by head of government Aziz Akhannouch. Akhannouch who made the announcement during a cabinet meeting said the inter-ministerial committee is the starting point for the operationalization of this unprecedented royal social project, stressing the solicitude […]

International drug trafficking operation thwarted at Tangier-Med port in joint DGSN-DEA operation

Morocco’s police in Tangier-Med port, in collaboration with the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) thwarted on Thursday an international trafficking operation of psychotropic drugs. The police operating in the port seized 490,000 psychotropic tablets bearing “Tafradol” tags, said the General Directorate of National Security (DSGN) in a statement. The operation was conducted in the frame […]

Chatham House Casts Doubt on Polisario’s Claim to Represent Sahrawis

Polisairo leadership and proponents have often claimed to represent the population of the Sahara, despite the fact that Sahrawis have never voted for the separatist militia neither in the Tindouf camps nor in the Sahara provinces, which usually register higher turnout in Morocco’s local and general elections. This Polisario anomaly was recently laid bare in […]