State-owned oil and gas company Sonatrach, the backbone of Algeria’s economy, is reeling under an acute brain drain as its recent discoveries fail to offset the decades long depletion of the country’s hydrocarbon resources. The company has lost 16,000 of its brilliant minds in the last eight years deplored Sonatrach officials in statements to Algerian […]
Morocco and Germany are about to settle the issue of the nearly 3,000 undocumented Moroccan migrants, some of whom claiming refugee status on groundless basis. The issue was discussed on Wednesday during a phone conversation between King Mohammed VI and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During their phone talk, the two leaders hailed the positive development […]
Egyptian investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat was released this Tuesday by the military following his arrest for “publishing false news”. The 37-year-old’s release was confirmed by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR,) the human rights group he founded, and the news website Mada Masr, to which he is a contributor. His arrest was made within […]
