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Spain, in collaboration with Morocco’s DGST, dismantles ISIS support network

Spanish police announced over the weekend that they have dismantled, in collaboration with Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), a network believed to have planned two attacks and financed the activities of Daesh (ISIS) members. The operation resulted in arresting five people in Spain, in the provinces of Valencia (2), Cáceres, Alicante and Guipúzcoa, […]

Tindouf: Son of Missing Ahmed Khalil Fainted during Sit-in

Hafdallah El Khalil Ould Braih, son of Ahmed Khalil, was taken lately to Rabouni hospital after fainting in front of UNHCR HQs while he was staging a sit-in with his family to demand the disclosure of the whereabouts of his father, a former Polisario leader kidnapped in Algiers.   For his part, Fadel Breïka, one […]

Kenya’s electricity firm secures Geothermal Deal in Ethiopia

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has signed an agreement to provide geothermal drilling services to state-run Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). According to EEP CEO, Dr. Abraham Belay, Ethiopia had tried to venture into geothermal development as far back as 1981 but was yet to make a commercial breakthrough. The country has some geothermal drilling rigs […]