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UN-Habitat to Open Office in Morocco

The United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) will open shortly an Office in Morocco, showing the UN agency’s strong determination to speed up and enhance further its cooperation with the North African country in sustainable urban development. UN-Habitat has been cooperating with Morocco since 1995 on national and local programs in the field of sustainable […]

Egypt: Nuclear project on temporary hold

Egypt plans to build a nuclear plant is on a temporal hold as it awaits implementations. However, officials prefer to wait for the parliamentary elections to be held first before making any move according to an official familiar with the affair. The nuclear project is considered as a national project and according to a source […]

Tunisia: Four siblings handed 51 years in prison on terrorism charges

A court in Tunisia has pressed 48 years in prison against three brothers on terrorism charges and handed a three-year prison sentence to their sister for protecting terrorists and encouraging them to face the state, Asharq al-Awsat reports. The three brothers who have not been identified had been charged by a special court for membership […]