A group of archaeologists discovered the Maghreb’s first pre-Phoenician settlement, where they found evidence of a bronze age village that challenges assumptions about the region’s history. The archaeologists, led by Hamza Benattia from the University of Barcelona, made the excavations in Kach Kouch, in the northern Oued Laou valley near the Strait of Gibraltar. The […]
A presidential decree, that is yet to be published in the official gazette, has dissolved Algeria’s influential Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS) and created a new intelligence agency known as the Direction of Security Services (DSS.) The new agency is to be led by a retired DRS chief, General Athmane Tartag, making many to […]
Libya’s central bank chief Sadiq al-Kabir said he and other senior bank employees had to flee the country to protect their lives from militias. Few days ago, the bank suspended activity after a senior official was kidnapped by militias. Disrupted central bank activity, which controls billions of hydrocarbons money, has forced oil production to shutdown […]
