Europe
UN reports record high migrant deaths in 2016
The UN International Organization for Migration reports that 2016 saw more recorded migrant deaths than any previous year, with a minimum of 5,079 lost at sea.
Tag: Morocco
Planet Watch
Paris Agreement on climate change takes effect
As the Paris Agreement took effect, hailed as the first binding climate change treaty, activists charge that it is actually "binding" in name only, with no enforcement mechanisms.
North Africa
Protests in Morocco after death of fish vendor
Thousands of Moroccans held protests in several towns and cities after a fish vendor was crushed to death in a garbage compactor while trying to retrieve fish confiscated by police.
North Africa
Media confusion on passing of Polisario leader
The passing of Mohammed Abdelaziz, leader of Western Sahara's Polisario Front, occasioned confusion in media coverage as to the difference between Arabs and Berbers.
North Africa
UN pressed on North Africa’s colonized peoples
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, on a tour of North Africa, met with Sahrawi leaders seeking independence from Morocco—but not Berbers seeking independence from Algeria.
North Africa
Morocco: Polisario blamed in death of Berber activist
The conflict over Western Sahara spilled into Morocco as clashes between Berber and Sahrawi Arab students at universities in Marrakech and Agadir left two dead.
Watching the Shadows
Guantánamo prisoner released to Morocco
Moroccan-born Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who spent 13 years in the Guantánamo Bay prison, was released to his home country—where authorities prompty detained him.
North Africa
‘Narco-jihadist’ threat seen in North Africa
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and related networks are said to control Saharan smuggling routes for Moroccan hashish to fund their regional operations.
Europe
Spain passes anti-protest, anti-immigrant law
Spain's conservative-led parliament passed a law that outlaws unauthorized protests, bans filming police, and allows summary deportations of African migrants.
Palestine
War crimes charges for Israel?
Bibi Netanyahu appealed to US legislators to help Israel stave off a feared global push to bring Israeli leaders to trial on war crimes charges in the wake of the Gaza offensive.
Europe
Diaspora Jews feel Gaza backlash —again
Two synagogues were attacked in Paris and the rabbi of the Casablanca Jewish community brutally beaten in reprisals for Israel's "Operation Protective Edge."
North Africa
Moroccan women protest reactionary PM
Moroccan women protested to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane after he gave a speech urging women to stay at home and not work jobs.