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Morocco loses cargo traffic business after Algeria issued restrictions on shippers

Location:
Tangiers port, Morocco, Morocco, Maghreb
Incident Date: January 26, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 2.00
Summary: Large maritime charter companies are complying with Algeria's directive to avoid transshipment in Moroccan ports for products bound for the Algerian market. CMA-CGM is reorganizing its services to Algeria, redirecting goods destined for Oran, Mostaganem, and Ghazaouet through Algesiras or Valencia instead of Tangier. Maersk is also changing routes, sending most shipments to Algiers, Skikda, and Bejaia via Barcelona and Algeciras, ending transshipment operations at [...]

Algeria: 86 drug trafficking suspects arrested

Location:
Maghnia, Algeria, Maghreb
Incident Date: January 17, 2024 - January 23, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 1.50
Arrests: 86
Summary: During the week ending 23 January, various security services arrested 86 drug trafficking suspects, and foiled attempts to bring into the country 94 kilograms of processed kif from the borders with Morocco. Also 96,041 psychotropic pills were seized in various locations.

Algeria: Three arrested for alleged support to terror group, weapons found in In Guezzam

Location:
In Guezzam, Tamanrasset, Algeria, Algeria, Maghreb
Incident Date: January 20, 2024
Instability Rating Max 5.0: 3.00
Arrests: 3
Summary:
During the week ending 23 January 2024, detachments of the Algerian National People's Army arrested three men suspected of providing assistance to terrorist groups during separate operations. Meanwhile, a military unit discovered during a sweep operation in In Guezzam, one Kalashnikov type machine gun, one FN-Herstal type machine gunner as well as a quantity of ammunition of different calibers.