Arab League official Hossam zaki

Morocco’s Nawal El Moutawakil elected vice-president of International Olympic Committee

Former Moroccan Olympic Champion Nawal El Moutawakil was elected vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) during the Committee’s 142nd session held in Paris. Moutawakil was elected IOC vice-president alongside Argentina’s Gerardo Werthein, with their terms of office beginning on August 10, after the end of the 142nd IOC session, the Committee said in a […]

East Africa’s hunger emergency, with 42M facing crisis as food insecurity triples, IGAD warns

More than 42 million people across six East and Horn of Africa countries are facing acute food insecurity in 2025, according to a grim new report from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Regional Focus of the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, released Tuesday (16 September), reveals that Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, […]

French travel documentary exposes Algeria’s police state

The Long awaited for Algeria episode of the French documentary, J’irai dormir chez vous (I will come to sleep in your house), was aired on Mar 8 revealing a closed-off and impoverished country, where locals are banned by omnipresent police from interacting with foreigners or tourists. The documentary producer Antoine De Maximy has spent two-weeks […]