The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has invited the representatives in New York of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Polisario “to informal bilateral consultations with him,” ahead of his upcoming briefing to the Security Council due next month. The announcement was made Tuesday by Mr. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for […]
Algerian authorities are multiplying arrests of bloggers and journalists critical of the government. Merzoug Touati, chief blogger for al-Hogra is the latest victim of the Algerian regime. He was arrested on January 18 in his hometown of Bejaia, following an outbreak of civil disobedience in the town, the New Arab reports. Police raided his house […]
Morocco was ranked fifth largest customer of French arms industry and the third in the Arab world after Egypt and the UAE, a report of the French defense ministry said. The report, covering the 2007-2016 period, said that Morocco was placed fifth in the list of France’ largest customers after China, Singapore, Egypt and the […]
