King Mohammed VI

Militant Islamist violence in Sahel surges, contradicting juntas’ security claims

The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region by insurgents, armed groups, state forces and foreign mercenaries has surged this year, according to data by The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), contradicting the claims by the military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and now Niger that they are tackling insecurity. […]

Climate Change Performance Index 2022: Morocco maintains its rank in the top 10 worldwide

Morocco remains in the top 10 of this year’s Climate Change Performance Index 2022 (CCPI) and among the high-performing countries worldwide.   As the CIPC did not award the top three places in the new rankings, deeming that “no country in the world performs well enough in all index categories to obtain a very high […]

Libya: parliamentary polls to be held simultaneously with presidential election runoff

The runoff of the Dec. 24 presidential elections in Libya will take place on the same day as parliamentary elections, Emad Al-Sayeh head of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC), told media on Sunday. Libyans are expected to head to the polls on Dec. 24 to elect a new president, a decade after the former […]