Some 42% of Moroccan prisoners have been re-convicted, showed a study by Morocco’s prison administration highlighting the challenge the country faces to reduce recidivism. Most of those who have returned to prison are aged 25 to 29 years old according to the study which also links re-entry to prison to drug use, low levels of […]
The government Council, held this Monday in Rabat, has decided to extend the state of health emergency across the national territory until Tuesday October 31, 2021, as part of efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state of health emergency, in force since March 2020 and that was scheduled to expire […]
A loyalist of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has suggested to the country’s leader, as part of his endeavors to unite the North African country and stamp out racism, to wed his daughter to Biram Dah Ould Abeid, the leader of an anti-slavery initiative. Mohamed El Mokhtar Ould Hmein Amar, mayor of Aoujeft, a […]
