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International: 110 journalists killed around the world in 2015, 12 in Africa

110 journalists around world including 12 in Africa have been killed in 2015 whether in the course of their work, for unclear reasons or knowingly targeted, according to Reporter without border’s 2015 report. The France-based GNO report indicates that out the 110 journalists killed two-third have been killed in countries far from war zones as […]

Flexible Brokerage: Qatar and Moroccan Diplomatic Relations

No tiny Arab country has ever gained more diplomatic leverage than Qatar in recent North African history. Since independence, only a few Arab regional powers had an overarching and successful influence in North Africa’s politics: Jamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt and King Fahd’s Saudi Arabia were able to diplomatically twist – gently or otherwise – the […]

Libya: UN Calls for Humanitarian Truce, Peace Talks

The UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has urged all parties to observe humanitarian truce in the suburbs of Tripoli to evacuate civilians and those wounded following the military offensive launched by General Khalifa Haftar of Eastern Libya to take control of the capital. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Monday the military escalation and ongoing […]