The anti-terrorism department of the Tunisian ministry of Justice has launched a probe against three members of Islamist party Ennahdah, including the Speaker of the suspended parliament Rached Ghannouchi, all of them suspected for financing terrorism activities in Egypt, Tunisie Numerique reports. The investigations against Ghannouchi and the two other former members of parliaments namely […]
Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is on trial on corruption charges, accused of amassing a $72m fortune while in office, whereby the prosecution of a former leader is unprecedented in the country and extremely rare in Africa. Abdel Aziz, a 66-year-old former general, is accused of amassing an illicit personal fortune during his […]
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan affirmed that Washington will build on the success of Israel’s normalization deals including the one signed with Morocco. The news was relayed by the White House following a phone talk between Sullivan and Israel’s National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat. “They (Jake Sullivan & Meir Ben Shabbat) discussed opportunities to […]
