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Morocco’s domestic spy agency helps FBI foil terror attack in NY

Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), equivalent of UK’s MI5, has tipped off the FBI about a terrorist plot hatched by a US soldier who was nabbed by US authorities on January 19, said on Tuesday Mr. Haboub Cherkaoui, Head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ). The case of US Army private […]

Tunisian Ennahdha Denies its Chief Proposed Mediation between Rabat & Algiers

The Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdha has flatly rejected reports that its leader Rached Ghannouchi had proposed his mediation in the diplomatic row opposing Morocco and Algeria, both tangled in a showdown over Algiers’s support for the Polisario separatist Front. London-based Middle East Eye (MEE) in a May 8 article, citing an anonymous Algerian diplomatic source, […]

EU top diplomat hails “swift appointment” of Akhannouch as head of Moroccan Gvt

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell has welcomed the swift appointment of Aziz Akhannouch as head of the Moroccan Government. “I welcome the swift appointment of Prime Minister-designate Mr. Akhannouch,” Josep Borrell tweeted on Saturday. The EU has already worked a lot with Mr. Akhannouch in […]