First Independent Mena Newspaper
February 22 will mark the third anniversary of a large-scale pro-democracy protest movement- known as the Hirak- that restored hope in the hearts of many Algerians to see an end of the brutal military rule in their resource rich country. The Hirak was paused on the back of the coronavirus outbreak and the violent crackdown […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied Sunday officially dissolved the High Judicial Council; the country’s judicial independent body that he accuses of being in league with some politicians and refusal to rule over some corruption and assassination cases in the country. He signed the decree for the move in the presence of Prime Minister Najla Bouden and […]
Child rights activists, university professors, journalists and civil society advocates have set up lately a coalition dedicated to the protection of the rights of children violated by the Polisario armed militia in Tindouf Camps under the watch of Algerian authorities. The new body was formed on the occasion of the International Day against the Use […]
A coalition bringing together the 27 states of the European Union and 13 other countries, including Morocco, was announced on Friday at the One Ocean Summit, with the aim of achieving an international treaty on the protection of high seas, an area of ecological lawlessness, currently under negotiation. The announcement was made by French President […]
The Royal Navy coastguards operating in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic have provided assistance to 256 would-be migrants from February 5 to 8. The candidates to illegal emigration, mostly sub-Saharans, included 41 women and 5 children. They were facing difficulties on board makeshift inflatable boats, military sources said. The rescued people received first aid on […]
Migration should not be dealt with as an emergency but should rather be approached with a sense of responsibility and solidarity, and a ‘security first’ approach should be abandoned, stresses the report of King Mohammed VI, Leader on the issue of migration. The report on the follow-up to the operationalization of the Morocco-headquartered African Migration […]
Moroccan rescuers have managed this Saturday evening to pull out the lifeless body of the 5-year-old boy, Rayan, who had fallen in a narrow 32-metre-deep well last Tuesday. A statement from the Royal Office confirmed the news shortly after medical staff took Rayan outside of the well. Following this tragic incident which claimed the life […]
Moroccan rescuers are digging for the third consecutive day to get a 5-year-old boy out of a narrow 32-metre deep well located in a village in the rural northern province of Chefchaouen. The trapped boy, Rayan, is still responding thanks to an oxygen tube and water sent to him by the rescuers through a rope […]
Morocco said it will reopen ports to passenger traffic on Feb 6 after a similar announcement last week that it will resume passenger air traffic on Feb 7. The government has also decided a set of procedures and measures to ensure the proper implementation of its decision to reopen the borders to passenger air and […]
A special program has been set up to support Moroccan beekeepers affected by the phenomenon known as “Bee Colony Collapse Disorder”, noted recently in some regions of the country, announced Sunday the Ministry of Agriculture. The government has thus earmarked 130 million dirhams to take immediate measures through the support of beekeepers for the reconstruction […]