CPJ calls on Algerian authorities to release veteran journalist Saad Bouakba

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Algerian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release veteran columnist Saad Bouakba, who was arrested on November 27 for comments on independence war. He is facing charges of defaming late President Ahmed Ben Bella. Bouakba was arrested in Algiers after Mahdia Ben Bella, daughter of Algeria’s first […]

El Salvador inaugurates an embassy in Morocco, its first in Africa

The Republic of El Salvador has inaugurated an embassy in Rabat, the Latin American Country’s first in Africa. “The opening of the first embassy of El Salvador in Africa, here in Rabat, is a living testimony to the excellence of bilateral relations,” Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Hill Tinoco said during the inauguration ceremony […]

Moroccan royal advisor calls for preserving universal memory of Holocaust

“We are gathered at the Hassan II Pavilion in Seville so that each and every one of us can reaffirm his or her commitment to preserving and prolonging, over the course of generations, the irreducible, irrefragable and universal memory of the Holocaust,” said André Azoulay, Advisor to King Mohammed VI and current President of the […]