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Morocco was elected by a large majority to the vice-presidency of Interpol for Africa for a three-year term during the organization’s executive committee elections. This election attests to Morocco’s efforts to maintain security and stability at regional and international levels and its pioneering role in promoting South-South security cooperation, the Moroccan General Directorate of National […]
Director General of Morocco’s National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, took part in the 8th INTERPOL meeting of police chiefs of the Middle East and North Africa region, held at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon September 3-4. This meeting allowed the Kingdom’s national security services to highlight their experience in combating new forms of crime […]
A major global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents has successfully concluded, Interpol has announced, which has led to the arrest of 300 people, seizing $3 million and blocking 720 bank accounts. Operation Jackal III, which ran from April to early July in 21 countries on five continents, aimed to fight […]
A 35-year-old French national who was the subject of international arrest warrants issued by the French judicial authorities for cases linked to deliberate homicide and international drug trafficking was arrested in Marrakech on Wednesday, a security source said. A cross-checking with the database of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) confirmed that the individual was […]
Morocco was elected, in Vienna this Friday, to host the 93rd session of the General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol. The 93 session will be held in Marrakech in 2025. The decision was made by the 91st session of Interpol, held from November 28 to December 1 in the Austrian capital. Director […]
Experts have warned that more international cooperation is urgently needed to curb the disturbing trend of a growing number of Africans that are being trafficked and exploited along migration routes to Europe and the Middle East. Human trafficking and migrant smuggling are on the rise in West Africa, with more than 15,000 Nigerian women and […]
Police in South Africa has announced the arrest of wanted 50-year-old Mozambican suspected to be the mastermind of a lucrative kidnapping ring for ransom. Esmael Malude Ramos Nangy is wanted in his country and by Interpol for organizing kidnappings for ransom which can reach several million dollars in the country affected by the phenomenon for […]
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, an Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with United Arab Emirates authorities, Interpol announced. The Eritrean national, on Interpol’s radar since 2019, has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African […]
INTERPOL’s Counter-Terrorism Director, Greg Hinds, highlighted, Tuesday in Marrakech, Morocco’s “very strong” and “robust” counterterrorism strategy, praising the strong cooperation between INTERPOL and the Kingdom’s security services. “We have been working with Morocco for years and we are very impressed by the capabilities, which have been put in place not only to strengthen national responses, […]
Morocco is taking part in the 23rd Interpol police training symposium which opened Monday in Riyadh at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences with the participation of some 450 experts and specialists in security and penal law. Themed: “Law enforcement training in a post-pandemic world”, the three-day hybrid symposium focuses on how law enforcement responded […]