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Al Hoceima hirak inmates transferred to prisons closer to their families for humanitarian reasons

The General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR) has decided to transfer the inmates convicted in the Al Hoceima hirak to penitentiary institutions in northern Morocco for humanitarian reasons. The DGAPR announced Thursday that following the confirmation on appeal of the judgments against a group of detainees in the context of the events of […]

Trump urges Russia to stop supporting atrocities in Syria

US President Donald Trump has urged Russia to stop supporting the “atrocities” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the White House announced on Sunday. During a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump expressed concern over the violence in Idleb, in northwestern Syria, and expressed the wish to see Russia end its […]

S&P Lowers Egypt’s Credit Rating Outlook to Negative

World rating agency Standard & Poors has downgraded its long-term foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings of Egypt to ‘B-‘ from ‘B’. It has also switched its outlook is negative, citing recent political developments that weakened Egypt’s institutions and the increasingly polarized political discourse that could undermine the effectiveness of policy-making. According to S&P, a […]