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From product demonstrations at a secret villa in Rabat to training sessions at NSO’s Herzliya headquarters, Forbidden Stories and its partners retrace the early stages of Morocco’s use of Pegasus.

In March 2019, nagging questions lingered in the corridors of Libreville, the capital of Gabon, a small, oil-rich country. What did the future hold for President Ali Bongo Ondimba, in power for 10 years? Would a new head of state need to be appointed, and if so, who?

On the promenade overlooking the main tourist beach in the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Africa, a Sudanese teenager in a tattered T-shirt prays on his knees to Allah at three in the afternoon.

African migrants are plotting a second invasion of Ceuta, with an imminent date set for a second wave of mass border crossings.

Only the most determined or those with nothing to lose remain in Ceuta. They number a few thousand now – Sudanese, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Somalians, Algerians, even a few Palestinians – and refuse to budge from their little outpost, an encampment on a hill on the edge of the city.

Four days ago, Youssef El Abbas saw an opportunity to reclaim the life he had lost seven years earlier. News was circulating that about 400 people had swum from Morocco to the neighbouring Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north African coast, approximately 12 miles (19km) across the strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain.

The death toll in Spain’s border crisis with Morocco has risen to 67 with after tens of thousands of migrants entered the tiny enclave of Ceuta in north Africa.

Thousands of migrants who flooded into Spain’s North African territory are being frogmarched back to Morocco, after the sudden arrival of so many people sparked a humanitarian crisis.

Trump has slammed Spain after nearly 60,000 migrants crossed into Europe through the enclave of Ceuta in the space of just one day.

The human tide crossing the border transformed the Spanish exclave city in a matter of hours, turning it into a scene of confusion that authorities struggled to control

Morocco’s government has long denied using the Israeli spyware Pegasus to surveil its citizens. Now, a former Moroccan intelligence officer provides new evidence that the government did employ the software, and explains how it was used.

Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.

Crypto 888 Ponzi scammer Petter Forsberg has been arrested in Morocco.

İn early 2026, Geneva-based trader Alvari SA emerged as one of the most controversial intermediaries in the movement of Russian oil products into North Africa.

Missing Brit model and travel influencer Rachel Kerr has been found and is back with family, her loved ones have confirmed.

A brit holidaymaker has vanished from a tourist hotspot as her family desperately appeal for answers.

A report from France’s health watchdog has raised concerns about a decision by the country’s development agency to provide a €350 million loan to an overseas phosphate fertiliser company.

Actress Nadia Farès has died aged 57 after being found unconscious in a gym swimming pool.

Protesters returned to Morocco’s streets a month after anti-corruption rallies swept the country, this time demanding freedom and justice for more than 1,500 detained demonstrators. Hundreds have already been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Moroccan authorities to allow peaceful protests and stop using “excessive force” against demonstrators who continue to rally for social justice and an end to corruption, even as the government signals readiness to strengthen anti-graft measures.

Hundreds of young Moroccans, rallying under the banner of “GenZ 212,” have poured into streets across the North African country demanding swift quality-of-life reforms from the government.