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Morocco: Arrest of two ISIS-affiliated suspects

Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ) arrested this Wednesday two suspects for their alleged links to a terror cell affiliated to the ISIS terrorist group. The two suspects, both aged 23, were arrested in two separate operations in Benguerir and Douar Sidi Kroum, two towns in the Marrakech-Safi region, said the BCIJ in a […]

Tunisia: PM Youssef Chahed to head newly born political party

Dissidents of President Caid Essebsi’s party Nidaa Tounes launched Sunday a new political party named “Tahya Tounes” or “Long live Tunisia” and chose Prime Minister Youssef Chahed to lead it. The new party, a secular movement inaugurated in the coastal city of Monastir, will hold a general assembly later this year. Mustapha en Ahmed, chairman […]

Libya: UN Chief Calls for Return of Oil Installations to GNA-backed NOC

The United Nations Chief Wednesday urged Libyan eastern authorities to surrender the country’s oil installations to Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation (NOC) operating under the wig of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). “The Secretary-General recalls, as stipulated in Security Council resolution 2259 (2015), the need for unity of Libyan institutions and the exclusive right […]