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Morocco: Former Guantanamo Detainee Charged with Endangering State Security

A Rabat court Tuesday charged former Moroccan Guantanamo inmate Younes Chekkouri with endangering state security, Chekkouri’s lawyer, Khalil al-Idrissi told media. “The court is charging Chekkouri with the crime of infringement on the internal security of the state and referred the case to the investigating judge. Now the case is in his hands,” Idrissi said. […]

Existence of Street Children, an Insult to our Own Humanity, Says King Mohammed VI

King Mohammed VI has spoken out against the phenomenon of street children, which is sparing no city in Africa, pointing out that condoning such a phenomenon is an insult to our own humanity. “To accept – through denial, capitulation or indifference – that children be abandoned to the street amounts to condoning, on a daily […]

U.S. Mulls Setting Up Spy Drone Base in Northwest Africa

The Pentagon is planning a drone base in northwest Africa to counter the growing terror threat posed by the Islamist extremists linked to Al Qaeda, says the New York Times on its web site. The base will be most probably established in Niger or Burkina Faso, sharing borders with Mali where French and Malian troops […]