steel trawler made at Agadir shipyard

Moroccan activists call for de-criminalizing extramarital relationships

Moroccan activists launched on social media a campaign to de-penalize extra-marital consensual sex after a woman in Tetuan was handed a one-month jail term. The woman was a victim of revenge porn after her video went viral on Moroccan social media triggering her arrest and indictment by virtue of Article 490 of the penal code […]

Bouteflika Playing his Little Game of Musical Chairs again with Prime Ministers

Abdelmajid Tebboune, who was still called the new Prime Minister of Algeria, was fired Tuesday, less than three months after he took office. The decision took everyone by surprise and so did the announcement of the man replacing the dismissed PM, as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika picked for the position the director of his cabinet, Ahmed […]

High-level American delegation visits US Consulate premises in Dakhla, launches an economic promotion project

An American delegation, led by David Schenker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, visited this Sunday the premises to host the US general consulate in the Saharan city of Dakhla. David Schenker was accompanied by the US ambassador in Rabat, David Fischer. The American delegation inspected the premises of the US consulate to […]