Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election, receiving 56.12 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential poll, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said Monday. The victory in Saturday’s election gives the former army chief a second term as head of the vast desert country, seen […]
British tourists started this week returning to Tunisia after the 2015 terrorist attack in Sousse, which claimed 38 lives, including 30 Britons, and left 39 wounded. The return of British holidaymakers to this North African country is arranged by Thomas Cook, one of Europe’s biggest tour operators, which resumed tourist flights from Birmingham, Manchester and […]
Morocco has so far registered 73 cases of the new Covid-19 British strain, including 40 in Dakhla, said health minister Khalid Ait Taleb, waving the possibility of further tightening restrictive measures to contain the spread of the virus. Speaking at the weekly government council Thursday, Ait Taleb explained that half of all Morocco’s coronavirus positive […]
