Ethiopia’s Amhara state hit by protests over govt’s plan to disarm regional forces

Scores of people have been killed in huge protests that have taken place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region for the past few days against the federal government’s plan to disarm regional paramilitary force. The plan by the Ethiopian government to disarm Amhara State’s volunteer civilian militia has sparked protests and deadly clashes in the northern part […]

USA donates Morocco 100 military vehicles

The United States has offered Morocco 100 light military vehicles. Fifty of them are already on the way to the kingdom, while fifty other trucks will join the fleet of vehicles of the Moroccan Army later this week, reveals FAR-Maroc, a website specializing in Defense matters. The offer of the tactical transportation vehicles is part […]

King Mohammed VI appoints new head of Higher Education Council, confirms president of Human Rights Council in her position

King Mohammed VI has appointed Rahma Bourqia as the new president of Morocco’s Higher Council for Education, Training, and Scientific Research, while he extended Amina Bouayach’s term as president of the National Human Rights Council, the Royal Office announced in a statement released this Friday. The Monarch also named Mohammed El Habib Belkouch Interministerial Delegate […]