Washington in August froze $300 million military aid to Cairo after US intelligence intercepted a shipment of 30,000 grenades from North Korea to Egypt under an apparent secret deal violating international sanctions against the rogue state, reports suggest. The Trump administration unexpectedly put halt to the money citing the North African country’s poor human right […]
The Malian army has urged the population to stop wearing military uniforms that it argues are causing confusion and mistaking terrorists for soldiers, few days after a bloody terrorist attack. The army in a statement said any civilian caught wearing the uniform without being a soldier could be charged for contributing to confusion and blurring […]
The Moroccan regions of Casablanca-Settat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima accounted for 58.2 % of Morocco’s GDP in 2016, Morocco’s statistics authority, HCP, said. Four other regions accounted for 30.1% of overall GDP with Fez-Meknes taking 9%, Marrakech-Safi 8.8%, Souss-Massa (6,7%) and Beni Mellal Khenifra (5.6%). The three regions represented 32%, 16% and 10,2% respectively. Such […]
