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.
In recent weeks, Algeria has suffered a string of diplomatic blows on the Western Sahara issue, most notably with the United Kingdom and Ghana expressing support for Morocco’s autonomy plan—a development that underscores the growing global consensus around Rabat’s approach and the fading influence of Algiers on the matter.
Egypt’s annual inflation rate surged to 16.5 percent in May, up from 13.5 percent in April, according to data released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of Western, African and Arab countries that back Rabat's position on the dispute.
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