Morocco’s FAR are regional leaders in fight against CBRN threats – US Diplomats

Morocco/Military Service: 1st Group of Draftees Starts Training Sept.1

After the mandatory military service has been reinstated in Morocco, the first group of young conscripts will start their one-year training September 1. Only 15,000 draftees out of the 25,000 called up will be enlisted after undergoing a series of physical and medical tests starting August 19, according to local media. To ensure success to […]

Residents of several Saharan cities took to the streets to condemn Polisario’s terrorist attack on Smara

Tens of thousands of people staged on Sunday Nov.5 demonstrations in several Sahara cities, including Laayoune, Dakhla, and Smara to denounce the terrorist acts of the Polisario against the city of Smara, the spiritual capital of the Moroccan Sahara. On the eve of the celebrations of the Green March 48th anniversary, tens of thousands of […]

Morocco’s Human Rights Council submits progressive input for penal code reform

Morocco’s national human rights council (CNDH) submitted its recommendations for the penal code reform which include proposals described as pro-liberties and progressive by analysts and rights activists although they might upset conservatives and Islamists. A new penal code is currently under Parliament scrutiny after a controversy stirred recently by an abortion and sex outside marriage […]