Algeria has earmarked $9.37 billion to military expenditures in 2015, the US Department of State said in its 2017 World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers report. The report notes that Algeria slashed military spending in 2015, compared to $11 billion in 2014 and $9.89 billion in 2013. Cash-strapped Algeria, which faces an impending depletion of […]
The leader of Tunisia’s LGBT community, Shams, has announced plans to run for November presidential elections, first time ever a gay enters a presidential race in the North African country and in the whole Arab world where being homosexual is outlawed. Mounir Baatour, a lawyer by profession last week told Belgian news agency Belga […]
Morocco has been granted the status of “advanced partner” by the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) in recognition of the Kingdom’s key role in strengthening South-South cooperation. The announcement has been lately in Guatemala City by Parlacen’s President Daniel Ortega Reyes during a meeting with a Moroccan MP delegation led by Speaker of the House of […]
