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Egypt: US embassy staff banned from visiting religious sites outside Cairo

The US embassy in Cairo Monday instructed its staff to avoid religious sites outside Cairo as attacks against Coptic Christians multiply. The embassy said on its website that risk for possible additional attacks is still high. “Terrorists have attacked targets associated with the Christian community in Egypt. Incidents have occurred in both urban and isolated […]

Algeria takes aim at consular ties with Morocco, in new diversionary maneuver

Algeria has declared Morocco’s consul to Oran persona non grata without offering whatsoever explanation, in yet another diversionary tactic at a context Algiers is engulfed in diplomatic turmoil. The decision came the same day Algeria handed a five-year jail sentence to a writer who recalled that France amputated lands and attached them to current Algeria. […]

Illegal Migration: MEPs stand with Morocco against human trafficking mafias

Several members of the European Parliament have voiced support to Morocco’s humane management of illegal migration, describing the North African Kingdom as a reliable and strategic partner in the fight against human smuggling and trafficking. Commenting the latest violent mass crossing attempt by illegal sub-Saharan migrants from Northern Moroccan region of Nador into Spanish enclave […]