Mokhtar Belmokhtar, co-founder of the al-Mourabitoun Islamist group, has denied reports that the extremist group has shifted its allegiance to the Islamic State from al-Qaeda. The information was relayed by Mauritania’s Alakhbar news website that has often received messages from the Sahara desert based jihadist group. An audio message posted on Alakhbar’s website last week […]
Morocco, which rejoined the African Union last year, signed this Wednesday the agreement launching the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The signing ceremony took place at the 10th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union on AfCFTA convened in Kigali, Rwanda. The AfCFTA was inked by Head of Moroccan Government Saâd Eddine El Othmani, who […]
Libya and Turkey have revived their Joint Economic Committee by holding its 22nd meeting, the first session in 17 years. The minutes of the sssion were signed in Tripoli by Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar and Libya’s Minister of Transport Mohammed Al-Shuhoubi. Minister Bayraktar said both countries committed to expanding and diversifying […]
