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Russian private military company Wagner has flown out of Libya 300 Syrian fighters back to the Middle East country, Libya Observer reports citing Syrian As-Suwayda 24 News Network. The fighters reportedly left Thursday through Benghazi airport in eastern Libya to the Hmeimim Air Base in Syria. The fighters made up the 42nd Brigade and were […]
Tunisia’s judicial council, the country’s legal body warranting the independence of the judiciary, has vowed to withstand with all legal means President Kais Saied’s intention to dissolve it. The Tunisian leader in a statement made Saturday during a visit to the ministry of interior indicated that the council belongs to the past. “The judicial council […]
The Moroccan Sahara region “is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom,” writes the magazine L’Essentiel des Relations Internationales in a special report on the occasion of the 35th African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa Feb. 5-6 “The Sahara region is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom, which is supported by an international diplomatic momentum in favor […]
People from different nationalities and religions expressed sympathies and solidarity with the family of a Moroccan boy who lost his life in a 32 meter well before he was pulled out following a tireless rescue effort. Since Tuesday, when the five-year-old Ryan fell into the well, Morocco spared no effort to save one of its […]
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 […]
The Republic of Senegal has been entrusted the rotating presidency of the African Union from this Saturday. During the opening ceremony of the 35th ordinary session of the African Union Summit being held in Addis Ababa this February 5-6, the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, received the attributes of power (flag and gavel) and thus […]
The Biden Administration and the United Nations have reiterated their strong support to the political process seeking a lasting solution to the Sahara regional conflict. The supportive stand was voiced by U.S. top diplomat Anthony Blinken and UN envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura during a meeting held Thursday in Washington. “Secretary Blinken emphasized […]
Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of the Libyan eastern region, has resumed his position as general commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA); an army opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Unity headquartered in capital Tripoli. Update Libya, citing an informed source, said Haftar has returned to his post after stepping down temporarily in September […]
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 […]