First Independent Mena Newspaper
Over $4 million (2.6 billion CFA) were embezzled between January and October this year in Gabon, the Chief of Police of the central African country, has revealed. Serge Hervé Ngoma made the remark at the opening ceremony of the 28th Global Program to Fight Financial Crime, Corruption and Asset Recovery, on Monday in capital Libreville, […]
Faustin-Archange Touadera, President of Central African Republic (CAR) appointed Monday new Chief of the country’s Constitutional Court amid rejection by the opposition. A decree signed by the president announced the appointment of Jean-Pierre Waboé in replacement of Danièle Darlan, put on retirement late October by the President. In the decree, Touadera indicated that he “ratifies […]
Few days after Le Monde, the New York Times and the Economist wrote about Algeria’s grave human rights violations, Newslook- a US based outlet- drew another portrait of a state ruled by a ruthless regime that has turned the country into a “giant prison”. “Algeria is a police state, freedom of expression is under […]
Cooperation between Morocco and the United Nations in the field of child protection was reviewed at a meeting in Rabat between Princess Lalla Meryem, President of the National Observatory for the Rights of the Child, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children Najat Maalla M’jid. During the meeting, Princess Lalla Meryem […]
A group of senior Emirati police officers started this Monday a two-month training at the Royal Moroccan Police Institute within the frame of the exchange of expertise and partnership sealed between the two countries’ police institutions. The advanced training includes theoretical and practical courses on judiciary policing, the fight against crimes and forensic science. It […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) arrested, on November 17, 2022, a supporter of the terrorist ISIS group, operating in Salé, Rabat’s twin city, for his alleged involvement in the preparation of a terrorist plot to undermine public order. The individual, 22, a former detainee in terrorism cases, whose identity has been established and […]
The mining company Emmerson announced on Monday it signed with two Swiss agri-trading groups deals for the sale of potash and salt to be produced at its Khemisset Mine in Morocco. With Keytrade AG, Emmerson agreed to sell a minimum of 245,000 metric tons per year of Muriate of Potash (MOP) for a period of […]
Cultural life in Morocco has turned the Covid-19 page with main cities bustling with festivals bringing together artists from all corners of the world and confirming Morocco’s standing as an arts hub and an oasis of cultural openness in a region beset by insecurity and turmoil. In Marrakech, curtain fell on the 19th edition […]
Despite general skepticism about Africa’s economic promise, Akinwumi Adesina, the chief of the African Development Bank (AfDB), who has been dubbed, “Africa’s optimist-in-chief,” believes that the future of Africa will defy everyone’s expectations. The skepticism is fueled by all the recent negative development affecting Africa: Covid-19 pandemic; the Russia-Ukraine war and its pressure on food […]
Kenya’s former President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwandan leader Paul Kagame are reported to have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to the East African Community (EAC) bloc, both leaders agreed via telephone “on the need for […]