OUJDA, MOROCCO — Moroccan authorities have promised to close all abandoned mines in Jerada after months of social unrest in the former mining town in the country’s northeast. “There are more than ...

JERADA: Thousands of Moroccans on Friday defied a government ban and demonstrated in the former mining town of Jerada demanding an "alternative economy" and the release of jailed activists. The ...

They call them "the mines of death". In the neglected northern Moroccan mining city of Jerada, hundreds of people risk their lives every day to scrape a meagre living from perilous abandoned coal pits ...

RABAT, Morocco — A leader of protests that began last December in the northeastern Moroccan town of Jerada was arrested on Saturday and was still being held, the prosecution and a rights group said.

Coal mining in Jerada, first active in the 1930's, has made of it a hub for workers. Engaged in trade unionist activities, miners have led to the creation of the UMT, one of the oldest trade unions in ...

JERADA, Morocco – Ramshackle streets, rudimentary unfinished houses, and unemployed youth killing time in the cafes, dreaming of better futures with a cigarette between their lips. Jerada is ...

(Tunis) – Moroccan police responded to March 2018 protests in the impoverished mining town of Jerada with weeks of repression, Human Rights Watch said. Security forces used excessive force against ...

MOROCCO HAS GREAT surfing, according to Mehdi Boujrada. He was born in Casablanca, and when he was a teenager, he’d head out to the coast around Agadir to join “people from Australia, New Zealand, ...