First Independent Mena Newspaper
U.S. Africa Command has deployed a new system designed to enhance personnel tracking during ongoing African Lion 2026 at Southern Zone Headquarters, April 20-May 8. Dubbed “Guardian”, the new system is a software-based, personnel-tracking tool under evaluation for the first time during this multinational exercise. It represents a forward-looking approach to how commanders visualize, manage […]
Switzerland has added its voice to the growing international momentum supporting Morocco’s autonomy initiative for the Sahara, as a lasting solution, aligning itself with positions taken by a widening circle of European states since the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution This position was expressed in a joint communication adopted by Ignazio Cassis, Federal […]
Britain and Morocco underscored the deepening of their strategic partnership during talks this week between UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, who is on an official visit to London, as both sides pointed to growing cooperation in security, trade and regional stability. Speaking after the meeting, Lammy highlighted the progress […]
King Mohammed VI offered a royal dinner on Thursday evening at the Mechouar Stinia-Sahrij Souani complex in Meknès in honor of the guests and participants of the 18th edition of the Salon International de l’Agriculture au Maroc. The dinner, chaired by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, brought together an assembly that reflected the salon’s standing as […]
Libya’s Red Crescent Society has rescued 404 migrants off the eastern coast near Tobruk after they were found in distress aboard 10 boats in the Mediterranean Sea. The operation, conducted in partnership with the UN refugee Agency, saw emergency teams provide immediate medical and humanitarian support upon disembarkation. The incident underscores a recent surge in […]
Sudan has recorded a sharp rise in mining revenues, with artisanal gold collections reaching 113 per cent of first-quarter targets, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company reported on Thursday, April 23. Gold production reached 89 per cent of projected output, reinforcing the sector’s central role in sustaining the economy amid ongoing conflict. Artisanal mining continues to […]
The Government of Mauritania has approved a draft decree allocating 40 hectares of land in Chami to the National Industrial and Mining Company for the development of a steel production plant and associated facilities. The project, aligned with national industrial policy, is expected to enhance the company’s operational efficiency. It is also aimed to strengthen […]
Moroccan engineering firm Cegelec has secured a contract worth more than two billion dirhams to design and construct a suite of high-voltage electricity transmission and generation assets in Guinea, the company announced this week. The project, carried out through its subsidiary VINCI Energies Guinée, was launched officially on April 18 at Kamissaya in the prefecture […]
Morocco is bucking a global trend on corporate insolvencies, recording a decline in business failures at a time when the rest of the world is heading into a fifth consecutive year of rising defaults. According to a report published on April 22 by trade credit insurer Allianz Trade, Morocco’s corporate insolvencies fell two percent in […]
Algerian authorities have sentenced French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud to three years in prison in absentia and fined him €35,000, in a ruling critics say epitomizes the regime’s sustained effort to suppress debate about the country’s civil war. Daoud, who won the 2024 Prix Goncourt for his novel Houris, announced the verdict on his X […]