Mauritania dismantled nearly 150 migrant smuggling networks in 2024
Mauritania shut down nearly 150 migrant smuggling networks in 2024, with dozens more disrupted in just the first few months
Morocco's King Mohammed VI used Throne Day to pardon three journalists as thousands of prisoners saw their sentences commuted to mark the monarch's 25th anniversary on the throne.
Omar Radi, Soulaimane Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, as well as
historian and rights advocate Maati Monjib, were among the 2,476 people
pardoned, plus two other activists Reda Taoujni and Youssef El-Hireche.
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