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Sahara: Guterres Announces Increase of MINURSO’s Budget

The UN Secretary-General has announced in a recent report that the budget of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be increased by 7.6 percent to improve ground and air surveillance operations conducted by the mission. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres who also called on MINURSO observers to be more vigilant, has closed the […]

Counter-terrorism: Morocco Helps France Dismantle Terror Cell in St-Denis

Once again Morocco played a key role in the fight against terrorism. It provided French security services valuable intelligence that helped them locate another deadly terror cell that slipped the police net after the series of attacks committed in Paris last Friday. Thanks to Moroccan tip-off, the French police launched a dawn raid on a […]

Tunisia: ISIS fighters handed 38 years in prison in multiple sentences

A Tunis court has handed several prison sentences to numerous Islamic State Group (ISIS) fighters for joining the terror group. A first verdict by the Court of First Instance pressed two years in jail against a local construction contractor for joining the terror group in 2013. After he spent two years with the organization in […]