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Education as a Priority for Future EU-Maghreb Cooperation

When President Barack Obama, in a speech in Cairo University in 2009, pointed to education and innovation as being the mechanisms of progress in the 21st century, these ideas must have resonated in capital cities across North Africa. Although different countries in the region have made various efforts to improve education and innovation and create […]

King Mohammed VI represented at inauguration ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect; sole head of state outside the sub-region to have been invited

King Mohammed VI was represented at the swearing-in and inauguration Ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, by Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch. The Sovereign was the only head of state outside the sub-region to have been invited to attend the inauguration ceremony, an invitation that reflects, if need be, the depth of the unfailing […]

Belgium: Explosions Strike Brussels Airport, Metro Station

Two explosions hit the Brussels airport Tuesday morning while another explosion struck the Maelbeek Metro station, near EU headquarters an hour later. The two terror attempts killed 34 people and injured scores of others. According to a provisional toll, the airport blasts killed 14 people and injured 81, while 20 people lost their life in […]