First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), which met in Kigali, Rwanda, over the weekend, made a number of decisions concerning the organization of major events on the continent. The decisions included the postponement of the African zone’s qualifiers for the World Cup scheduled in Qatar from November 21 to December […]
The Algerian army Sunday killed a Mauritanian gold miner and wounded another one after six vehicles crossed into Algerian territory to prospect for gold. A joint statement by the Mauritanian interior and foreign ministries relayed by state-run news agency indicated that the Algerian army opened fired on Sunday morning on “a convoy of surface gold […]
The Tunisian army killed Sunday five terrorists in the restive Kasserine province used by militants as hideout. The army and security forces led a joint operation in the mountains of the region. The operation resulted in the killing of four Tunisians and one Algerian national, reports say. The causalities could increase, Mozaique FM notes citing […]
The Moroccan police (known as DGSN) celebrated on May 16 its 65th anniversary with the inauguration of new facilities that aim at improving its performance against new security threats. In Casablanca, head of the DGSN and Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency Abdellatif Hammouchi inaugurated the headquarters of the judiciary policy, stretching over a surface area of […]
The emergency humanitarian aid, sent by Morocco at the order of King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, to the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, started arriving aboard aircrafts of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR). Two aircrafts loaded with basic foodstuffs, emergency medicine and blankets landed at Amman’s airport Sunday, […]
Morocco received, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, a new batch of 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines, as part of the WHO Covax program, news outlet Le360 reported. This second batch of 650,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines brings up the total doses Morocco received so far under the Covax program to 950,000 doses. […]
The European Union is closely following developments in Algeria and in particular the human rights situation, underlined the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell. Responding to a question from an MEP on the deteriorating human rights situation in Algeria, Borrell said that respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights is […]
Abderrezak Soumah, former founder of the Mujahideen movement of Morocco, admitted that Ali Aarrass, a Belgian-Moroccan national who served a sentence on terrorism charges, had supplied weapons to would-be terrorists in Morocco. The former convict was also in charge of logistical and financial support for the Mojahideen movement in Morocco, a terrorist organization set up […]
Thousands of Algerians took to the streets of different cities and towns across the country Friday to demand a clean break with the military rule that left the country underdeveloped and dependent on oil revenues. However, the army has shown signs in recent days that it has no patience for dissent and threatened to deploy […]
King Mohammed VI, head of Al Quds committee, ordered the shipment of urgent aid to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza. The aid is composed of 40 tons of basic foodstuff, medicine, and blankets and will be channelled via airplanes of the Royal Armed Forces, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a […]