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Princess Lalla Asmae, First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire inaugurate audiology centre & launch newborn hearing screening program in Rabat

Princess Lalla Asmae, youngest sister of King Mohammed VI, and the First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire, Dominique Ouattara, inaugurated, on Wednesday in Rabat, Lalla Asmae Foundation’s Hearing Diagnosis & Rehabilitation Centre and launched a newborn hearing screening program in the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region at Moulay Youssef Hospital Centre. After cutting the inaugural ribbon, the Princess and […]

Three Sahel countries to create joint anti-jihadist force amid growing insecurity

Junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have agreed to create a joint force to battle security threats, most notably long-running jihadist rebellions, across their territories. Violence in the wider Sahel region fueled by the decade-long fight with Islamist groups has worsened since the three countries’ militaries seized power in a series of coups from 2020 […]

Mauritania: Introduce Sharia and religious police force, Mufti Wald Habib tells the President

Ahmed Wald Habib al-Rahman, considered to be the Mufti of Mauritania, told President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and other high officials that the country needs to create a Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, or religious police, in order to enforce Sharia in Mauritania. During an encounter at the Grand […]