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Egypt: US must check al-Sisi’s steady power grab- Carnegie Endowment

Recent constitution change maneuvers to expand President Fattah al-Sisi’s stay in power beyond 2022 and the unprecedented crackdown on criticism must wake up US policymakers, the Carnegie Endowment Center notes warning that the totalitarian regime in the most populated Arab country may not last long in front of growing discontent and anger. In a paper […]

Egypt: Four dead in train crash

Four people were killed and 23 wounded after a passenger train slammed into the buffers at a station north of Cairo, the Health ministry announced Wednesday. The crash took place Tuesday in the city of Qalyub. Authorities say the driver had overshot the station and run into the buffers at the end of the track […]

Morocco unrelenting in fighting smuggling from enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla

Morocco’s crackdown on all sorts of smuggling and contraband originating from the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla under Spanish occupation has helped the country gain an additional 4 billion dirhams in customs revenue. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, Morocco has maintained its borders closed with the two cities to fight the virus but the […]