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Residents of Tunisia’s two main border crossings with Libya staged a general strike Tuesday to protest against what they say is excessive force by police when clashes demonstrations over the weekend left one person dead. Unions in the two towns want the government to uplift an export tax imposed on goods in the area since […]
Palestine will be opening an embassy in Stockholm after Sweden became the first western European country to recognize its statehood in October last year. President Mahmoud Abbas is on a state visit there and said that other countries should follow Sweden’s footsteps in order to “push forward negotiations in the peace process.” It has been […]
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi spoke to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to assure them of his goodwill following the airing of a tape allegedly involving him, his former head of office Abbas Kamel and Egyptian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazy. The tape seems to be […]
An Algerian diplomat has revealed that Algeria declined to join the US led campaign military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) after requests from France and the United States. According to the diplomatic source who wants to remain anonymous, Algeria was asked to send two squadrons of warplanes to join the […]
Relations between France and Morocco have just started to warm up after a year of diplomatic row. The two countries have restored their judicial and security cooperation and the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, currently on a private visit to France, held talks with France’s François Hollande on Monday afternoon at the Elysée. However, the […]
Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi has began on the 5th February a two-day state visit to Algeria at the invitation of the Algerian Head of State, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Accordding to a statement from the presidency of Algeria, released by Algerian official news agency APS, This two-day visit will provide an opportunity to the two […]
The Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has received on Wednesday 4th February, Mongi Hamid, the Special Representative of the General Secretary of the United Nations in Mali. The UN official, who spoke on Wednesday to reporters at the end of an audience with the Mauritanian Head of the State, said he had discussed “the […]
Egyptian court has sentenced on Wednesday, the leftist revolutionary and prominent activist Ahmed Douma to life imprisonment for “illegal gathering”, “arms”, “disturbing public order”, “vandalism” and “inciting violence. The court also sentenced 229 others to life in jail in absentia for the same charges, and 39 juveniles received 10-year sentences in absentia. These liberal activists […]
The United Nations (UN) has criticized this week, the low level of education in Algeria, partly because of the poor training of teachers. The institution nevertheless welcomed the high rate of 97% of children enrolled in primary school as well as free education system at all levels. The Head of UN department in charge of […]
Egypt has been rocked this weekend by another wave of deadly violence triggered by clashes in a Cairo stadium between fans of the football club of Zamalek and their ENPPI rivals. According to press reports, riots police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, but this has prompted only a huge stampede that left at […]