Geneva-based NGO denounces Algeria’s reprisals against relatives of political dissidents

A Geneva-based non-governmental organization has denounced before the United Nations the acts of reprisals carried out by Algeria against the relatives of political dissidents settled abroad. In this connection, the Alkarama Foundation submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the case of the arrest of Abderrahmane Zitout. The “crime” of Abderrahmane Zitout is […]

Libya reports increase in oil production after several months of decline

Libya authorities in charge of the country’s oil production indicated Tuesday oil production has increased 1.025 million barrels per day after a three-month decline owing to a wave of closures of oil fields and ports, Libya Observer reports. Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Farhat Ben Qadara, and the Minister of Oil and Gas, […]

Moroccan city and inter-city rails transporters go green

Rabat tramway has become the latest to join a green momentum announcing that it will operate its city trains on solar energy. The company in charge of Rabat’s tramways RRM said its trains will operate on electricity supplied by urban photovoltaic panels to further cut its electricity cost from 25 billion dirhams. It has already […]