King of Jordan meeting at Al Husseiniya Palace

Morocco: Military Service enables young draftees to get skills & dose of patriotism

The registration of young eligible conscripts for 2023 started Wednesday in Morocco and will close on February 25. The 12-month compulsory military service for young people aged between 19 and 25 has been reinstated in 2019 after it was abandoned in 2006. In 2019, 133,820 young male/female Moroccans registered for the service and 178,166 volunteered […]

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur makes history as she wins first WTA Title

Tunisia’s top ranking woman tennis player Ons Jabeur Sunday became the first Arab woman to win a Women Tennis Association (WTA) title as she defeated Russian Daria Kasatkina in Birmingham tournament. In their third clash in WTA finals so far in history, the 26-year Tunisian woman beat her opponent 7-5, 6-4 to capture the trophy. […]

UN grants Malawi $5.5m to cope with damage caused by Freddy cyclone

The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), a humanitarian fund set up by the United Nations, has granted Malawi $5.5 million expected to be used to back hundreds of thousands of people affected by Freddy, a tropical cyclone that has hit the country in the past days. The South of the African country has been battered […]