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Egypt has requested Spain to hand over former contractor turned whistleblower Mohamed Ali wanted for tax evasion and money laundering. Self-exiled Ali, who has accused the regime of President Fattah al-Sisi of corruption and lavish lifestyles and who sparked widespread protests last September, appeared in court in Barcelona on July 9 to answer the Egyptian […]
The next Youth Olympic Games (YOG), a sporting event for athletes aged 15 to 18, will take place in 2026 rather than 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Senegal have announced. The IOC cited the postponement of the Tokyo Games to 2021 and “the operational and financial consequences of the global health crisis” as […]
The Moroccan ministry of the Interior has decided to close down temporarily 514 factories and businesses across the country for violating the health and safety requirements related to covid-19. The move comes after a spike of coronavirus hotbeds in industrial units following the reopening of businesses in the North African Kingdom, which has eased the […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh, on Wednesday, handed in his resignation to President Kais Saied, after a row with the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. “The decision has been made in the national interest and in order to avoid more conflicts between state institutions in the country and to uphold the principle of moralization of political life,” […]
Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament has called on Egypt to operate a military intervention in view of flashing out Turkey that it accuses of invading the oil-rich country. The House of Representatives (HoR), close to Egypt-backed retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar, in a statement invited Libya’s Eastern neighbor to intervene “if there is an imminent threat to the […]
The department in charge of cyber security, an offshoot of the defense administration, rejected Amnesty’s allegations about a Moroccan journalist being snooped on by an Israeli software saying that Morocco has a national cyber security strategy. In an article on Arabic speaking Al Ahdath daily, the administration recalled that Amnesty fell short of presenting hard […]
The competition council called for putting an end to monopolies that created an oligopolistic situation in Morocco, citing the sectors of fuel distribution, banks, insurance companies and cement producers. In its annual report for 2019, the first since the council’s reactivation the same year, the council recommended for the new development model to break up […]
All activities, festivities and ceremonies planned on the occasion of Throne Day, marking this year the 21st anniversary of the accession of King Mohammed VI to the Throne have been postponed due to the state of health emergency decreed to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came in a statement released Tuesday […]
Amnesty was led astray or rather chose to derail from defending human rights to defending a group that has a political agenda sugar coated in a human rights cover. In 2019, the group has put forward accusations according to which Moroccan authorities used Israeli-made spyware to snoop on self-proclaimed human rights defender Maati Munjib and […]
Morocco’s Royal Air Maroc, which has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, will receive 6 billion dirhams (623 million dollars) from the government as part of a bailout plan. Speaking to members of the Upper House, Finance Minister Mohamed Benchaaboun said that the aid is part of state assistance to public enterprises in disarray […]