Amnesty accuses Morocco of spying on activists and journalists
In a new report, it says intelligence services us a web of surveillance to silence any critical voices.
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In a new report, it says intelligence services us a web of surveillance to silence any critical voices.
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Marrakesh’s long-time mayor as the country’s first female prime minister.
King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri on Tuesday as Morocco’s first woman prime minister after her liberal-centrist party came out on top in a September 23 parliamentary election, the royal palace said. The king asked El Mansouri to form a new government, the palace said in a statement. El Mansouri’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) was created in 2008 by an adviser to the king and has since positioned itself as a counterweight to the Islamist Justice and Development Party...
Her appointment by the king makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world.
The mayor of Tangier, Mounir Limouri, was placed in police custody on Monday over alleged electoral fraud in the recent parliamentary elections.
The movement whose founders remain anonymous, rallied support around the failings of the public health and education systems before a government crackdown diffused it
The United States backed Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara on 25 September and said the 50-year status quo cannot be maintained, five weeks before the UN decides its mission's future. The post Western Sahara: US Backs Morocco and Says the Status Quo Cannot Last appeared first on The Rio Times.
Africa Intelligence Brief — Thursday, 24 September 2026 The parliament building in Rabat. Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party took 97 of 395 seats on provisional results, on a turnout of 38.02 per cent. Africa Intelligence Dossier… The post Africa Intelligence Brief — Thursday, September 24, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Provisional results published on Thursday show the centre-right Authenticity and Modernity Party has taken 95 seats in the 395-seats in parliament.
Millions of Moroccans vote today for a 395-seat parliament amid new digital proxy and anti-fraud measures.
Moroccans are voting today in parliamentary elections dominated by concerns over the cost of living, jobs and inequality, with many voters also expressing deep distrust of political parties.
Moroccan voters are choosing a new parliament Wednesday in elections dominated by economic concerns after a mass migration surge to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the summer highlighted concerns over rising youth unemployment and the cost of living. Nearly 16 million Moroccans have registered to elect 395 members of the House of Representatives.
As Morocco goes to the vote on Wednesday, the parliamentary elections are being closely watched as a test of citizens’ faith in the political process. The vote comes as the country marks one year since youth-led demonstrations swept the nation, calling for jobs and better public services.
With just a day to go before legislative elections on September 23, young Moroccans are torn between hope and scepticism ahead of the crucial vote. Nearly 16 million Moroccans are set to elect their representatives to the National Assembly in the country’s first legislative elections since the Gen Z protests which swept through Morocco almost a year ago.
As Morocco readies for Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, all eyes are on young voters. These are the first elections since youth-led protests spread across the country in late 2025.
Israel and Morocco have agreed to open embassies in their respective countries following a meeting between their top diplomats and the US ambassador to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday
Spanish police in Ceuta on Friday morning started moving hundreds of migrants from the beaches of the Spanish enclave to a new tented area. Several thousand migrants remain in Ceuta after tens of thousands of people crossed the border with Morocco in late July.
Israel and Morocco agreed on Wednesday to open embassies in each other’s countries following talks between their foreign ministers and the US ambassador to the United Nations in New York. The two countries established diplomatic ties in 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accords, which normalised Israel’s relations with several Arab states.
Twenty-eight formations are contesting 395 seats. The largest Islamist movement is urging abstention, and participation is the number the palace will read. The post Morocco Votes on 23 September With Turnout the Real Test appeared first on The Rio Times.
The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat.
Spain’s parliament backs citizenship for Sahrawis amid tense relations with Morocco after the Ceuta crossing.
Over 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta, sparking a humanitarian crisis and political tensions between Spain and Morocco.
In the wake of the migrant rush into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta back in July, Morocco has insisted there are ‘no facts’ indicating its involvement.
Campaigning for Morocco's legislative election opened on Thursday, with the governing coalition seeking to retain power amid discontent over economic and regional inequalities.
MOROCCO · ELECTIONS Key Facts —The latest offer The Left Alliance, a coalition of two small socialist parties, launched a 431-measure election programme in Casablanca on Tuesday costed at MAD 500 billion (about US$53 billion) over five years. —The rivals’ price tags The Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) has costed its platform at MAD 350 […] The post Morocco’s Election Campaign Becomes a Bidding War of Billion-Dollar Promises appeared first on The Rio Times.
Europe Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026 The border fence between Morocco and Ceuta, the flashpoint behind Monday's Rome meeting where Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Belgium's Bart De Wever argued over what a defended Schengen… The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Tuesday, September 8, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Alana Moceri, International Relations Professor at IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs. She sees the Ceuta migrant crossings as a both a domestic and international crisis. The scale and speed of the crossings point toward what she calls a form of "deliberate permissiveness" at the border and Pedro Sánchez's restrained response is understood less as exoneration of Morocco than as pragmatic international relations. Sánchez faces pressure at home from political opponents able to frame migration as an existential crisis. She extends the argument further by showing how such episodes become politically valuable after they occur: Spain's far right can amplify the language of "invasion," while hostile foreign information ecosystems can exploit an already volatile controversy without necessarily having created it. The result is a crisis in which the border is simultaneously a geopolitical instrument, a domestic political weapon, and an information battleground.
PM Pedro Sanchez addresses police report suggesting July border surge was planned to overwhelm border controls.