Istiqlal Withdrawal from Governing Coalition: Does Chabat want to become Caliph instead of the Caliph Benkirane.

The National Council of the Istiqlal Party decided on Saturday to withdraw from the Moroccan coalition government led by the Islamist Party for Justice and development (PJD). The decision was not a surprise to analysts who see in it the normal outcome of the fierce and controversial opposition the Istiqlal Party’s Secretary General Hamid Chabat […]

Egypt, IMF to resume negotiations over new program in November

A delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Egypt in the first week of November to resume talks over a new loan agreement. Egypt and the Washington-based institution began talks for a new loan for the Middle East country in March. The Arab country has turned to the IFM for a new loan […]

Moroccan-Spanish joint security operation leads to arrest of extremists

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), a branch of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested on Tuesday, as part of a joint security operation with the Spanish police intelligence General Commissariat, an extremist active in Farkhana, in Nador region in Northeastern Morocco, similarly with the arrest by the Spanish authorities of other […]