Tunisian President meeting speakers of 2 chambers of Moroccan parliament oct 23 2019 Carthage Palace

France donates Tunisia €80m to tackle fallout from covid-19

France Monday offered Tunisia a €80 million check to help the North African country tackle the covid-19 pandemic which has infected 1,087 and killed 49 people. France’s ambassador to Tunisia Olivier Poivre d’Arvor told, in a telephone talk, Tunisian Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, that money is meant to alleviate social and economic […]

Libya: parliamentary polls to be held simultaneously with presidential election runoff

The runoff of the Dec. 24 presidential elections in Libya will take place on the same day as parliamentary elections, Emad Al-Sayeh head of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC), told media on Sunday. Libyans are expected to head to the polls on Dec. 24 to elect a new president, a decade after the former […]

Three firefighters die while battling blazes in northern Morocco

Three Moroccan firefighters died in a car accident while on duty countering wildfires in the “Kodiat Tifour” forest, near the city of M’diq, in the country’s north. Their vehicle plunged into a ravine while they were fighting the fire. Two of their colleagues were injured. In a related development, the judicial police brigade of the […]