Morocco legalises medicinal cannabis

Morocco’s parliament has voted to approve a law legalising the use of cannabis for medicinal and industrial – but not recreational purposes. The country is a huge producer of cannabis, and is hoping the move will improve economic opportunities in deprived rural areas, where criminal gangs often prey on vulnerable farmers.

Plus, UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Mohamed Fall speaks to Focus on Africa about the humanitarian crisis in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Almost 700,000 people have been displaced by the insurgency there, nearly half of them children.

And two African students discuss the extent to which the continent still suffers from the legacy of colonialism, after Oxford University students voted to remove a portrait of the Queen of England, calling it a colonial symbol.

(Photo: Cannabis plants in Ketama in Morocco’s Rif region; Credit: Getty Images)