The Egyptian interior ministry Tuesday announced in a statement the killing of a prominent member of the Islamic State group (IS) in the Sinai after security forces clashed with militants in a raid in the city of Arish, north Sinai. Ahmed Hassan Ahmed Al-Nashu, also known as Ghandur Al-Masri, was killed in a building under […]
Egyptian efforts to create a 10 kilometer long buffer zone along its border with a kilometer radius are still being pursued. The killing of 30 Egyptian soldiers by a suicide bomber in the Sinai region in October has forced the government to construct a buffer zone and declare a three-month emergency in certain areas of […]
The Arab Monetary Fund has granted Morocco a $127 million loan to provide financial resources to meet the country’s needs amid the global COVID-19 crisis, the Arab financial institution announced this Wednesday in a statement. The loan agreement was signed earlier this month by Morocco’s Economy and Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaaboun and the General manager […]
