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Victory for the RNI, crushing defeat for PJD Islamists in Morocco’s parliamentary elections

Moroccan social democrat party RNI won a slight majority, followed by its PAM counterpart, and conservative Istiqlal in the parliamentary elections in which voters dealt a heavy blow to the PJD. RNI won 97 seats, PAM 82, Istiqlal 78, socialist USFP 35, while MP took 26 seats, the UC 18 and the PJD came eighth […]

Panama Papers: Algiers Scolds Paris for “Hostile Campaign against President”

Relations between Algiers and Paris are seemingly turning sour few days after France’s top diplomat, Jean-Marc Ayrault was in Algiers to prepare the Algeria-France summit and two days before an official visit by French Premier Manuel Valls. On Wednesday, Algeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs summoned French ambassador to Algiers to complain about French media “hostile […]

Senegal launches space agency

Senegalese President Macky Sall announced Tuesday the creation of an agency for space studies, which, he believes, will drive further discoveries of the universe. “I decided to create the Senegalese Agency of Space Studies on which I exchanged for more than a year with Maram Kaïré during our meetings,” Sall said prior to the preview […]