Parties seen as close to Morocco’s king have dealt a crushing blow to the long-ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) in parliamentary elections, preliminary results announced on Thursday showed. The PJD, which had headed the governing coalition for a decade, saw its support collapse from 125 seats in the outgoing ...
Algeria severed diplomatic ties with neighboring Morocco, the OPEC nation’s foreign minister, Ramtane Lamamra, said in a televised press conference. The minister cited Morocco’s support for observer status for ‘Israel’ in the African Union as one of the catalysts for the decision.
