Egyptian anchor Mohammed el-Gheiti

Algeria : €10billion arms deal to be announced in weeks

Algeria will be embarking on a spending spree to reinforce and renew its military arsenal with a budget of more than €2 billion. The North African region has been threatened by the presence of terrorist groups that have gained more force in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Algeria has been able to avoid anti-government […]

IS-Somalia doubles in size in one year amid growing terror concerns — UN report

The Islamic State’s Somali branch is still small but steadily growing, due to in part to what United Nations experts describe as an “influx of foreign fighters,” a new report published by the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team for Somalia warns. “Foreign fighters arrive in Puntland [Somalia] using both maritime and overland routes,” says the report, […]

Spain refuses to host again ailing Polisario Chief, avoiding new crisis with Rabat

Spain has refused to host again Polisario Chief Brahim Ghali who is suffering from cancer to avoid a new crisis with Rabat. According to several press reports, the head of the polisario-armed militia has been airlifted from the Ain Naadja military hospital in Algiers to Cuba, where he was admitted to intensive care following the […]