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Tunisia’s Justice Minister Leila Jaffel has ordered the general prosecutor to launch probe into the circumstances of the death of former President Beji Caid Essebsi who died on 25 July 2019, Webdo Tunis reports. Essbesi, elected in 2014 to in the wake of 2011 revolution, was whisked to the military hospital of the country on […]
Algerians from all walks of life continued to suffer in 2021 from acute shortage of bread, milk, cooking oil, potatoes, sugar, pasta, oxygen for covid-19 patients and ICU beds, while their rulers are squandering the country’s petrodollars on military expenditure. Such explosive social situation with deepening political crisis is fueling Hirak pro-democracy protestors demanding a […]
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Russian private military company Wagner, has accused the international community for Libya’s problems for trying to take money from the country, reports say. Speaking to Sputnik, Prigozhin also indicated that western states don’t help Libya for free and this is clear in the fact that top European officials and international […]
Tunisia has adopted the 2022 budget short of around $2.8 billion amid economic hardship that has hit the country also gripped by an unprecedented political crisis, triggered since July 25 after President Kais Saied has seized all major powers. The Tunisian government, Webdo Tunis reports, will present this Tuesday the draft of the financial act […]
A committee of the Libyan Parliament refused Monday to set a new date for the presidential election initially scheduled for December 24 before being postponed, leaving the fate of this crucial vote unclear. During a long-awaited session of the Parliament, held on Monday in Tobruk (east), this commission in charge of monitoring the elections presented […]
About three months to the Arab summit that Algiers is supposed to host, Algerian diplomacy refuses to pull its head from the sand, spreading fake news and propaganda about the Arab League’s decision to adopt a unified map which shows the full Moroccan Map from the Mediterranean to the Mauritanian border. Algeria’s news agency APS- […]
After concrete phosphates and gas cooperation projects, Morocco is helping Nigeria develop electricity production from renewable energy with a solar power project spanning over 200,000 hectares of land in the state of Jigawa. “The power solar energy is an initiative of Moroccan government, in collaboration with the Federal Government and Jigawa State government specifically to […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart have agreed to cooperate on the Libyan crisis after the oil-rich country missed the scheduled key Christmas elections. Both leaders held a telephone conversation Saturday, Libyan Observer reports, citing the Egyptian presidency. The discussion according to the office of the Egyptian leader reflected a consensus on the […]
The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has signed an agreement with the Italian giant energy group Eni for oil exploration and exploitation in the Gulf of Suez and Nile Delta regions worth $1 billion, Arab Finance reports, citing a statement by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. The deal signed by Minister of Petroleum […]
The official celebrations of Morocco’s National Day at the World Expo 2020 Dubai were launched Sunday morning in the presence of a high-level Moroccan delegation led by Aziz Akhannouch, Head of Government. Located in the heart of the Opportunity District, near the United Arab Emirates’ pavilion and not far from Al Wasl Plaza, central monument […]