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Tunisia: ISIS-enthusiast terror cell busted in Hammamet

Tunisia security forces nabbed in the city of Hammamet, Nabeul province, members of a terror cell, pledging allegiance to the Islamic state group (ISIS). Security forces raided the house of the ringleader, a Tunisian man in his twenties, following an alert. “The raid was launched following intelligence that the suspect threatened some security forces with […]

Bouteflika, Algeria’s missed chance to rise from civil war ashes

Algeria’s former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, passed away last week, leaving his country at the mercy of a military junta that did little to relieve the country from oil and gas curse. Bouteflika took power in 1999 on the back of promises to put an end to a deadly civil war that took the lives of […]

UNGA adopts Morocco-proposed Resolution proclaiming International Day against Hate Speech

The 193 member states of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted, on Wednesday, a resolution presented by Morocco on the fight against hate speech, which proclaims, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, June 18 of each year as “International Day Against Hate Speech”. The adoption by consensus of this historic […]