First Independent Mena Newspaper
Tunisia has assembled almost 30 countries, 20 international institutions and dozens of private companies at an investment conference aimed at attracting investors to the country and enabling its democratic “startup.” The country’s economy has been almost at a standstill for the past three years due to the political instability that it has been experiencing. Prime […]
Sluggish growth in Latin America’s largest economy is a blow to incumbent Dilma Rousseff.
President El-Sisi welcomed, on separate occasions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal to discuss issues within the Middle East and North Africa. Abbas is reported to have complained about Israel’s latest actions to the Egyptian president. The Saudis on their behalf were much more interested in the dangers posed […]
Thousands of people in the Gaza Strip are still homeless after a ceasefire ended the hostilities between Hamas and Israel less than two weeks ago. Although Hamas deems it is up to the Palestinian Authority to cope with the problem, as it gave up official control of Gaza’s ministries to a new Palestinian government in […]
There are suspicions that Fajr Libya (Dawn of Libya), a coalition of Islamic fighters, is planning to carry out a terrorist attack using airplanes at the Tripoli International Airport. North African countries including Nigeria have all raised their alert because of fears that the 11 missing commercial aircrafts could be used to launch an attack. […]
Ordinary operations are to begin at the In Amenas gas plant more than a year after the terrorists stormed it. The return of the companies came on the brink of intensified security measures to prevent another deadly terrorist attack. The announcement by Statoil to return to the plant will serve as a major boost to […]
There is an ideological dichotomy between international human rights law and Islamic law, which may explain the numerous human rights abuses in the Muslim world. On August 19, the faculty of law of Buenos Aires University presented the first international code of human rights published by Thomson Reuters. It gathers all the rights, declarations and […]
While Libyan authorities have admitted that they lost control over capital city Tripoli to an alliance of militias led by Misrata-based forces, the recently elected Libyan parliament reappointed Abdullah Al-Thinni as the new Prime Minister and tasked him with forming a “crisis government.” Meanwhile, the groups controlling Tripoli, which mostly support the previous Parliament, the […]
After spending more than two years in captivity, the Algerian diplomats kidnapped and taken hostage by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) in northeastern Malian city of Gao have been released. The information was diffused in a released statement by the Algerian Foreign Ministry which also reiterated the country’s steadfastness towards […]
Investigations have begun against Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, amidst allegations that he is connected to the leakage of security documents to Al Jazeera, a popular Qatar based satellite news channel. The judicial investigators think that the secretary to Morsi’s daughter facilitated the transfer of the documents to the channel and security officials are claiming […]