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COVID-19: State of health emergency extended for another month in Morocco to July 10

The Moroccan government has finally decided to extend the state of health emergency until July 10 with gradual easing of confinement measures. The decision was made in line with a bill that was discussed and adopted Tuesday by a Cabinet Meeting, convened by videoconference under the chairmanship of head of government, Saad Dine El Otmani. […]

East Africa’s hunger emergency, with 42M facing crisis as food insecurity triples, IGAD warns

More than 42 million people across six East and Horn of Africa countries are facing acute food insecurity in 2025, according to a grim new report from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Regional Focus of the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, released Tuesday (16 September), reveals that Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, […]

Algeria: International NGO denounces weaponization of law to muzzle critical voices ahead of presidential election

ARTICLE 19 has decried the Algerian authorities’ tactics of deliberately targeting and silencing opposition and critical voices ahead of the presidential election on 7 September 2024. In a press release issued Monday, the international NGO has denounced the amendments to the Algerian Penal Code, which mark a significant escalation in the Algerian government’s crackdown on […]