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Mozambique: Court sends ex-president’s son, 10 accomplices, to prison for corruption

A court in Mozambique has sentenced the son of a former president, two ex-spy bosses, and eight others to years in prison for their part in a corruption scandal which saw hundreds of millions of dollars in government-backed loans disappear, crashing the southern African nation’s economy. Nineteen people, including state security officials, went on trial […]

Morocco’s national airliner resumes direct flights to Moscow

Royal Air Maroc has resumed direct flights between Casablanca and Moscow, after more than a year of absence from the Russian travel market. The announcement was made Tuesday by several Russian news outlets and travel agents association. The non-stop flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays from Moscow to Casablanca and on […]

Morocco hopes to build dams ahead of schedule in response to drought- official

With a filling rate that has been reduced to 28% in August, Morocco’s water ministry cut short the delivery time of 14 key dams under construction to eight months instead of 3 years, Abdelaziz Zerouali, director of research and planning at the ministry said. Morocco has currently 5 billion cubic meters of water stored in […]