France’s army said Monday that its anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed a senior Algerian member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Yahia Djouadi, who was responsible for finance and logistics. Djouadi, also known as Abu Ammar al-Jazairi, was killed overnight from February 25 to 26. “On the night of February 25-26, the Barkhane […]
Several Medersas, mostly dating back to the fourteenth century, have been rehabilitated in the frame of the rehabilitation program of the old medina of Fez and will thus play again the role that was theirs in the past as educational institutions, specializing in Islamic religious sciences, Islamic law and Classical Arabic. King Mohammed VI, Commander […]
In Addis Ababa, a major meeting on the future of Africa’s biggest hydroelectric dam— (GERD)—has ended without agreement. This is the fourth meeting in the latest efforts by water ministers from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to find a resolution to the tensions over the project. The dam is under-construction on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile, a main […]
