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Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh has denied recent reports from Israel, Saudi Arabia alleging he recently met with Israeli Mossad Director David Barnea in Jordan to discuss normalization and security cooperation, Update Libya reports. The Jerusalem Post, citing reports from Saudi Arabia and Libya, revealed the alleged secret meeting. “That didn’t happen and won’t happen […]
Morocco has introduced incentives and removed legal barriers to encourage foreign companies to invest in its health sector and attract foreign doctors to fill in shortages, health minister Khaled Ait Taleb said. In an interview with Reuters, Health Minister Khaled Ait Taleb said the health system will have to deal with an increase in demand […]
The newly appointed UN Secretary General envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura has started his first visit to the region since taking the job. His main task will be to kickstart a stalled negotiation process in a context marked by Algeria’s warmongering and instigation of its Polisario proxies to violate the UN ceasefire agreement. […]
Morocco and Portugal on Wednesday signed an agreement on the stay and employment of Moroccan workers in Portugal, as part of the process of modernizing partnership instruments between the two countries. The agreement was initialed at the end of a video-meeting between the Moroccan and Portuguese Foreign Ministers, Nasser Bourita, and Augusto Santos Silva. During […]
Tanger Med port in northern Morocco handled 7.17 million containers, up 24% compared to last year, maintaining its position as the biggest port in the Mediterranean region and Africa. “This traffic results from the steady ramp-up of Tanger Med 2 port after the successive commissioning of the terminals TC4 in 2019 and TC3 in 2021,” […]
The anti-terrorism department of the Tunisian ministry of Justice has launched a probe against three members of Islamist party Ennahdah, including the Speaker of the suspended parliament Rached Ghannouchi, all of them suspected for financing terrorism activities in Egypt, Tunisie Numerique reports. The investigations against Ghannouchi and the two other former members of parliaments namely […]
Morocco has taken steps to renegotiate a free trade deal with Tunisia and Egypt to protect its own industrial fabric and protect jobs after it took a similar move to balance its trade deficit with Turkey. Aujourd’hui le Maroc reported that Morocco plans to renegotiate the tax imposed on a list of goods including textile, […]
A group of Algerian human rights organizations and militants have called on the Algerian authorities to put an end to the new wave of cracking down and violations of the constitutional rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association. In their joint statement released lately, they called for the immediate liberation of prisoners of conscience, […]
Ex-Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki has revealed French authorities have turned down Tunisia’s request to extradite him after he was condemned to four years in prison in December on charges of plotting against the North African country. Marzouki indicated that he has been subjected to an international arrest warrant issued by Tunisian authorities. The former […]
Within a few days after Morocco reported the first Omicron case, the new variant now represents over 70% of new cases in the country with the peak of the new wave expected to be reached within two weeks, according to health ministry officials. Morocco is now recording some 6000 cases daily compared with some 100 […]