Moroccan Concert Stampede Kills 11
A stampede on the final day of the Mawazine festival in Morocco killed at least 11 people and wounded 30, reports CNN. Five women, four men and two children are among the victims of the stampede that took place in the nation’s capital city, Rabat, Saturday night, according to local reports. Thousands of people filled the Hay Nahda stadium that evening. Singers Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder were among the performers at the eight-day music festival.

Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Returns to Caribbean Roots
Attorney General Eric Holder made a visit to Barbados this Memorial day weekend. But it wasn’t just a few days of fun in the sun that brought Holder to the Caribbean island. Holder met Saturday with attorneys general from several Caribbean nations. “They are talking about U.S.-Caribbean cooperation on narco-trafficking, crime, gangs and judicial law enforcement technical assistance,” Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller told The Miami Herald. Holder, whose father was born in Barbados, will also be honored by the nation. The government is set to rename the Tamarind Hall Municipal Complex “The Eric Holder Centre.” In addition, the Barbados Parliament held a reception in Holder’s honor following Saturday’s meeting.

Zimbabwe Bank Prints 100 Trillion-dollar Bills
As a result of having the world’s highest inflation rate, Zimbabwe’s central bank announced it’ll be printing $100 trillion bills soon, reports CNN. “In a move meant to ensure that the public has access to money from banks, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced a new family of bank notes that gradually will come into circulation, starting with the 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollar,” said the bank in a statement. The bank is also set to release 50-trillion, 20-trillion and 10-trillion dollar notes. The trillion-dollar bills are worth about $300 U.S. dollars. A loaf of bread costs about 300 billion Zimbabwe dollars and is increasing each day. The official inflation rate was 231 million percent as of July and merchants along with working-class people are struggling to keep up. Because of the rapidly deteriorating Zimbabwe dollar, many are refusing to accept payment in the country’s currency, preferring either the U.S. dollar or South African rand or the Botswana pula instead. Doctors and teachers have left their jobs in mass, demanding that they be paid in foreign currency. The doctors’ strike comes at a time when the nation is in the grips of a cholera epidemic; the teacher strike has left schools unable to reopen this year.

Nigerian Nurses Strike in Barbados
Nigerian nurses, employed at a hospital in Barbados, walked off their jobs Tuesday, reports Caribbean Net. The nurses, who work at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, were reacting to a news report by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that aired Monday night. According to the report, three Nigerian nurses died of AIDS while working at the hospital. The nurses are requesting that the National Union of Public Workers take care of the issue.  In addition, the Nigeria Nurses Association is demanding the CBC retract the report, saying it hurt the nurses’ reputation as professionals. The CBC isn’t budgin, though. “We stand by what we carried. We stand by the veracity of our report,” Richard Cox, CBC’s director of news, told a local paper.