Moroccan lawyers end strike after government backs down on reform bill

Lawyers in Morocco ended a week-long strike on Monday after the government suspended a bill regulating the legal sector and created a commission tasked with initiating dialogue, a professional association said.

Omar Mahmoud Bendjelloun, a board member of the Association of Moroccan Bars (ABAM), told AFP that Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch had promised on Wednesday to “personally take charge” of the bill, in cooperation with the ABAM,…