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Libya peace talks to lead to a unified government are drawing towards the end-of-August deadline suggested by UNMIL Chief Bernardino Leon while deep divisions among the rival factions still persist. With the United Nations-supported political dialogue process in Libya nearing its last stages, “time is running out” for leaders on all sides and at all […]
Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities “to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants”. Fekhar has since 2013 called for autonomy of the Mzab, a northern Sahara region, and has condemned the Algerian government for “complicity in crimes against humanity by Sunni […]
Moroccan and Spanish authorities announced Tuesday that joint coordinated anti-terrorism operations enabled to disintegrate ISIS recruitment cells operating in Morocco and Spain. The operations led to the arrest of 14 suspects, 13 in Morocco and one in Spain. “The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) dismantled Tuesday, in coordination with the Spanish security services, a […]
Founders of the Egyptian Secular Party (ESP), a political party yet to be registered, have stated their objectives include limiting the role and influence of religious institutions in the nation’s affairs. The party has been heavily criticized for promoting such an agenda but party founder Hisham Ouf vowed that they will treat citizens equally regardless […]
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Al-Dayri has urged the international community to wake up and help Libya overcome the unprecedented progress made by the Islamic State terrorist group which is scoring “giant wins” in Libya. The Foreign Minister who was on a visit to Paris Tuesday to seek France’s support to lift the UN arms embargo […]
More flexible conditions will be applied to Moroccans’ applications for Schengen visas at French consulates as of next October. These more flexible conditions were detailed in a note addressed by the French Foreign Ministry to diplomatic and consular missions in Morocco. According to the note, more visas will be granted to Moroccans for longer periods, […]
Algeria which has been recently accused of rolling back human rights by the US State Department, features again among countries where human freedom is seriously at risk according to a report published Monday by the Canadian human rights think tank Frazer Institute. The think tank lambasted Algeria in its recent 116-page report called “The Human […]
The semi-autonomous Kurdish government in Iraq has been selling oil to Israel in defiance to Baghdad because the state does not officially recognize Israel. In a report published by Financial Times on Monday, Israeli refineries and oil companies received an average of around 240,000 barrels per day between May and August which amounts to almost […]
A Palestinian has been handed death sentence by a military court in Gaza Monday on treason charges after Hamas accused the convict of leaking information to Israel which resulted in the killing of Hamas militants. The convict, 28, known by his initials N.A., is accused of leaking information to Israel that led to the killing […]
As clashes of government troops in Libya against the Islamic State (IS) militants continue, a video has been released by the extremist group calling for more militants to join them in Libya. Last week, the Tobruk based-government requested brother Arab countries to help it fight the group but the rival government in Tripoli warned that […]