Hamid Chabat, a former factory worker and mechanic , has been elected Secretary General of the Istiqlal party, one of the most powerful political parties in Morocco. Nothing predestined this man, who started his career at the bottom of the ladder, to this spectacular rise except his boundless ambition that he started to kindle since […]
The Court of Appeals in Brussels has ruled that Belgium must pay reparations to five women who were forcibly taken from their mothers and put in orphanages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) when it was still a Belgian colony because they were victims of “systematic kidnapping” by state. The appellate judges thus overturned […]
A Moroccan court Wednesday ordered the breakup of the Moroccan Airline Pilots’ Association (AMPL), which has been in conflict with the national carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) for months. The ruling was issued by Casablanca’s court of first instance following a lawsuit filed by RAM in September against the AMPL accused of violating the association […]
