Morocco’s tourism revenues near pre-pandemic levels in April

Morocco reported a 124% rise in tourism receipts to 14.62 billion dirhams ($1.5 bln) up to April this year, getting closer to pre-pandemic levels of 2019, the exchange office said. Analysts say that the receipts could have been higher had it not been for Ramadan which coincided with April this year. Morocco is restoring air […]

Amnesty International Slams Egypt’s Anti-terror Draft law

Amnesty International has decried Egyptian new anti-terrorism law which threatens journalists with jail for reporting anything that contradicts the official account of terrorist attacks. This draft law represents “a flagrant attack on the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association”, said Amnesty International on Wednesday in a press release, describing the bill as […]

Coronavirus: Sahrawis returning to Tindouf camps confined in appalling conditions

The over one hundred Sahrawis who have been stranded at the borders between Algeria and Mauritania after they were denied return to Tindouf, out of fear of the spread of coronavirus, spent days in the desert area without water or food and were totally ignored by the Polisario and their mentor, Algeria. Some of them, […]