Ilhem Rachidi

Feb 15, 2024 | africanarguments.org | Ilhem Rachidi

For over three months now, crowds have been taking to the streets of the small oasis town of Figuig in eastern Morocco to protest proposed water privatisation. Every Tuesday and Friday, residents of all generations have united to demand that water remain a public good and kept affordable for all. The demonstrations began in November 2023 after the municipal council approved a motion to allow a private company, Al Sharq Distribution Group, to manage the town’s drinking water.

Nov 23, 2023 | globaldiasporanews.com | Ilhem Rachidi

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Nov 23, 2023 | africanarguments.org | Ilhem Rachidi

Since June 2020, Mohad Gasmi, an activist from Adrar in the south of Algeria, has been sitting in a prison cell. On 5 July, Algeria’s independence day, he initiated a new hunger strike : “We suffer arbitrariness and oppression in the name of the law and under the national flag, which symbolises independence but we continue to be the objects of colonial practices,” he said in a statement released on Facebook. The conditions of his incarceration worsened afterwards.

Sep 8, 2023 | globaldiasporanews.com | Ilhem Rachidi

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Sep 8, 2023 | africanarguments.org | Ilhem Rachidi

The region surrounding the Soummam river has long been renowned for its agriculture. It is home to centuries old olive trees and a diverse and rich flora and fauna with several protected species. It is the core of a major agro food center, which supplies the country and produces several brands of mineral water as well as a local beer, Albrau. But a government project launched in July is about to radically disturb its ecosystem and landscape.