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Polisario’s Involvement in Drug Trafficking Confirmed by Mauritanian Official

Predictions made years ago by many a pundit about the Tindouf-based separatists’ schemes to lay hand on the drug trafficking market in the Sahel-Sahara region have been confirmed once and again, and most recently by a Mauritanian official. Ahmadou Abdel Malek, the official spokesman in France of the Mauritanian ruling Union for the Republic, told […]

Moroccan Dirham strengthens against Dollar in June trading

Morocco’s dirham appreciated 1.3 percent against the U.S. dollar while weakening 0.7 percent versus the euro between May and June 2025, according to Bank Al-Maghrib’s latest monthly economic review, reflecting broader currency market dynamics and the euro’s strength. The central bank attributed these movements partly to the euro’s 2.1 percent appreciation against the dollar during […]

Tunisia detains two people in connection with Djerba attack

Tunisian authorities have arrested two people, a woman and a man, on the Island of Djerba; the theater of an attack on a Jewish synagogue in which six people including the attacker have died. The people, all of them Tunisians, in their twenties, were arrested by the National Guard forces on the Island as part […]