Morocco approves appointment of Staffan de Mistura as UN Personal Envoy for Sahara

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, began, on Tuesday, consultations with members of the Security Council, in order to appoint Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as his Personal Envoy for the Moroccan Sahara, MAP correspondent in New York learned from diplomatic sources. The information was confirmed to MAP by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN […]

Somalia: Three IS terrorists killed in the north

The US Africa Command (Africom) announced Saturday that its special forces had eliminated three terrorists on Friday in an airstrike against the Islamic State group in northern Somalia. Africom, which oversees US troops on the African continent, said the latest strike was carried out in cooperation with the Somali government in the Golis Mountains. “This […]

Muslims in Melilla Protest against Moroccan sheep ban

For the second time in August, Muslims in the Occupied Moroccan city if Melilla took to the streets in protest against a Spanish authorities’ ban on Moroccan sheep ahead of the Eid Al Adha feast. Thousands staged a protest march along the streets of the occupied city where they raised slogans calling on authorities to […]