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Tunisians Divided Over Women‘s Inheritance Rights

Tunisians of all walks of life are divided over the issue of gender equality in inheritance rights. A controversial reform of the inheritance law unveiled in this regard by President Beji Caid Essebsi and backed by the mufti of Tunisia has sparked fierce and endless debates between conservatives and liberals. Islamic (sharia) law generally gives […]

Death toll rises to 12 after migrant boat sinks near Casablanca

The sea continues to reject the bodies of victims of a tragedy that occurred last Saturday, when a dinghy, carrying more than fifty candidates for illegal emigration, capsized off Mohammedia’s coast, near Casablanca, local authorities said. Moroccan authorities Monday recovered five more bodies of drowned migrants near Casablanca, bringing the total death toll to 12 […]

USA-Morocco: Hollywood Becomes Laayoune’s Sister City, Dealing Hard Blow to Polisario and Algeria

The Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune has welcomed U.S. Hollywood as its newest sister city in a ceremony held Wednesday in the capital of Moroccan Sahara. Mayor of Hollywood city, Fl. Josh Levy and Head of Laayoune municipal council, Moulay Hamdi Ould Errachid, have inked the twinning agreement confirming the American recognition of the Moroccanness […]