In Morocco, hundreds of activists protested Monday hiking prices, poverty, and repression of human rights. In more than fifteen cities, protesters took to the streets chanting, “freedom, dignity, social equality” as they raised slogans denouncing the rising fees of living in the North African Kingdom. The protests marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, as the rate of poverty in Morocco reached about 20 per cent of the population (36 million). In Rabat, tens of activists, mostly from the Social Front, held a sit-in in front of the Parliament on Monday evening calling out t…