Morocco

After several female porters were trampled to death in Ceuta, Spain, private merchants took measures to improve working conditions. But is it enough?

Morocco is building one of the world’s largest solar power plants in the desert east of Marrakesh, using a technology that will allow it to generate electricity well past sundown. It’s part of an aggressive strategy to become energy independent.

In the months after 9/11, the US government set up a system to register and interview men from Muslim-majority countries in an effort to combat terrorism. It was quietly shelved after a few years mostly because it didn’t work. Trump’s advisors want to bring it back.

It’s a far cry from the traditional pomp of Morocco’s royal court, but pictures of the king casually posing with his subjects are making the rounds on social media.

In 2004, Morocco’s government adopted Moudawana, or “Family Code,” a new set of laws put into place to address women’s rights and gender equality within an international and Islamic legal framework. When it was passed, many embraced the reforms as evidence that gender equality is compatible with Islamic principles.