Nephew of Polisario Chief of Staff arrested in Panama over money smuggling Panama’s customs services arrested, on May 11, Mohamed El-Wali Akik, a nephew of the polisario chief of staff, for smuggling foreign currency valued at $65,000. The arrested individual was brought before the Panamanian Public Prosecution which decided to ban him from traveling until […]
Morocco and Germany announced on Wednesday in Geneva a joint financial contribution for the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). By joining their efforts, the two countries confirm their commitment made during the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration organized by the […]
While we enter a new year, the emerging consensus among observers of the Middle East and Northern Africa is that the Arab Spring has turned into a frosty Arab Winter. Nothing speaks to this perception as strongly as the ongoing civil war in Syria, where the embattled Assad-regime, propped up by Hizbollah and Iran, is […]
