Morocco Calls GCFT Members to Address Core Foundations of Terrorist Ideologies

Moroccan foreign Minister Nasser Bourita called at a meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s 9th Ministerial Plenary Meeting for continuing the fight against terrorism and extremism by addressing the root causes of these calamities. “Our approach should remain a strategic one, with a long-term perspective that goes beyond territorial victories to address the core foundations […]

UN-Sahara: Experts & NGOs Support Autonomy Plan, Slam Polisario’s Crimes against Women & Children

More international law experts, university professors and human rights militants continue to support, at the United Nations, Morocco’s realistic autonomy plan for the Sahara and denounce the sufferings endured by the sequestered Sahrawis in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria. Addressing the UN fourth Committee, convening in New York, French expert André Grimblatt said that […]

Tunisia: UGTT Draws Line in the Sand about Participation in Unity Government

Tunisia’s powerful labor union UGTT Wednesday underlined its rejection of President Essebsi’s invitation to join the future unity government currently under discussion. The UGTT said in a statement that as a union it is not “its role to join any government.” The UGTT decision was made after a board meeting discussed President Caid Essebsi’s call […]