Algeria’s 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been nominated by his ruling National Liberation Party (FLN) to run for a fourth term in April 2014. The ailing leader, who was hospitalized in France last April after suffering what official reports described as a stroke, has been in power since 1999. He presided over a cabinet meeting […]
Customs services seized in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday more than four tons of cannabis resin concealed in a vehicle that was driving between Tangier and Tetouan in Northern Morocco. It all started when the vehicle driver refused to pull over as ordered by customs officers and drove over the harrows erected in his […]
Marine Units of the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie (County Police) seized on Monday more than four tons of drugs off tangier’s coasts after chasing down two fishing boats used by the smugglers. Seven involved people were arrested. According to local press reports, the dealers stole two small fishing boats from Tangier’s City port before sailing to […]
