First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco’s flag carrier Royal Air Maroc is boosting transatlantic flight capacity ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Company has added 32 special flights between Casablanca and major American host cities as Moroccan fans are expected to travel to the USA to support the Atlas Lions. The additional flights, offering more than 8,800 additional […]
Morocco has opened a new headquarters for its national police force, the DGSN, a vast complex in the capital designed to centralize operations, boost coordination and support the modernization of policing, officials said. The site, built on 20 hectares in Rabat’s Riad district, brings together all directorates and entities of the General Directorate for National […]
Head of the Algerian army, General Saïd Chengriha, spoke before a hall of uniformed officers last week, praising what he described as Algeria’s steady economic progress and national resilience. His speech came right after new EU statistics showed Algerians had become the largest group of irregular migrants in the bloc, with Spanish authorities also reporting […]
King Mohammed VI has addressed a message of royal recognition to Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of the National Security and Territorial Surveillance, in response to a loyalty message conveyed to the Monarch by Hammouchi, on behalf of the national police family, on the occasion of the DGSN’s 70th founding anniversary. In his message, the King […]
In implementation of the High Instructions of the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), Princess Lalla Meryem, President of the FAR Social Works, chaired on Saturday a meeting of the Board of Directors of the FAR Social Works at the headquarters of the FAR General Staff. The […]
The Lalla Asmaa Foundation is organizing Saturday at the library of Mohammed VI University of Sciences and Health (UM6SS) the first edition of the national robotics competition “Parking au Top,” an unprecedented event bringing together nearly 200 middle school, high school, and university students from different regions of the Kingdom around an ambitious technological and […]
Sudan has cautioned the African Union fact-finding Mission against publishing a final report on the conflict before hearing from all affected parties. The warning was issued on Wednesday, May 13, during the 87th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, where Sudanese officials met with the head of the AU […]
Amnesty International has called on Algerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all arbitrarily detained journalists targeted for exercising their right to freedom of expression, including Abdelwakil Blamm, Hassan Bouras and Christophe Gleizes. The call came ahead of the 14 May trial of Abdelwakil Blamm on bogus terrorism charges. The Rights Watchdog has also denounced […]
Nearly 50,000 people have been displaced in Sudan’s Blue Nile State since the start of 2026 due to ongoing clashes involving the Sudanese Army, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied SPLM-N fighters, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In a statement issued on Tuesday, 12 May 2026, the IOM said about 49,512 […]
Morocco pleaded, Tuesday at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, for adopting an approach based on “leadership by example” for the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, approved in Marrakech in 2018. As part of its participation in the second International Migration Review Forum, held May 5 – 8, […]