Moroccan police seized 10.5 metric tons of cannabis resin from a fishing boat in Agadir on Sunday.
Agadir beach on the Atlantic African coast © Mena Today
Moroccan police seized 10.5 metric tons of cannabis resin from a fishing boat in Agadir on Sunday and arrested 13 suspects.
Investigations into potential connections with international drug trafficking networks are ongoing, a police statement said. Morocco - a major cannabis producer - has allowed the cultivation, export and use of cannabis for medicine or industry since 2021, but not for recreational purposes.
At 51, Binina Mohamed is as old as the conflict that drove her from the Western Sahara region into a refugee camp in southern Algeria, where she has spent her life among tens of thousands of others facing a similar fate.
The end of the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara after 35 years marks a turning point in one of Africa’s oldest conflicts. For Rabat, it is a major diplomatic victory.
The 35-year-old UN peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara region will come to an end after the Security Council failed to renew its mandate, the UN chief said on Sunday.
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