While some of the ports, bridges and other coastal projects constructed as part of Beijing’s so-called Maritime Silk Road help developing economies increase their capacity for trade, there are environmental downsides to China’s coastal infrastructure, according to a new academic study that has just been published in the journal One Earth. The study, by researchers […]
Security forces in Fez, northeastern Morocco, have arrested an Algerian national wanted in his home country for alleged connection with drug trafficking. A statement from the national security directorate, DGSN, revealed that the 36-year old suspect was arrested while he was applying for a residence permit in Morocco. Security forces found out during the […]
In the wake of the triumphal return of Morocco to the African Union where the King delivered a landmark speech reflecting Morocco’s growing economic and diplomatic clout in the continent, the leading South African paper, the Daily Maverick, published an analysis on what Morocco will gain from its comeback to the continental body, noting that […]
