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President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta said he would repeal the decrees appointing the judges of the Constitutional Court still in office, which amounts to a “de facto dissolution”. The move came after days of mobilization against President IBK in Bamako, with the M5 movement calling for civil disobedience, while barricades were erected and public buildings […]
Morocco said that Amnesty International has yet to provide hard evidence for its allegations on authorities spying on a journalist or else acknowledge its fault. “We, in the Moroccan government, are still insisting on receiving a copy of the report of scientific expertise that was adopted to make these unfounded accusations, or publishing it to […]
Morocco has distributed cash to a little over 70% of Moroccan households to help them cope with the restrictive measures to curb the coronavirus, finance minister said. Morocco has offered 2000 dirhams from March to June to workers affiliated to the pension fund CNSS and up to 1200 to households, whose main provider is working […]
Morocco praised, on Friday, the adoption by UNESCO members of the resolution “Global Priority Africa”. The resolution, co-authored by Morocco, was adopted by consensus, after tough negotiations, during the 209th session of UNESCO’s Executive Board, particularly on the question of the restitution of cultural property. The resolution provides for the launch of a flagship program […]
After months of deadlock, oil production activities have resumed in Libya, the National Oil Company announced on Friday. Oil production and exports had been at a standstill for six months in Libya because of the conflict that has been tearing the country apart. Vital for the economy, both activities are resuming with a first ship […]
As the Turkish President signed a decree on Friday converting the ancient Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a mosque, the UN cultural agency (UNESCO) said that it “deeply regrets the decision” made “without prior discussion”. UNESCO had earlier in the day called on Turkey to abide by its “legal commitments and obligations” in accordance with […]
German police said on Thursday (9 July) that they had opened an investigation against an alleged Egyptian spy working for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s press office. The man is suspected “of having worked for years for an Egyptian intelligence service,” German Internal Intelligence said in a report, adding that the investigation opened in December 2019 “continues” […]
After the scandal of the diversion of humanitarian aid by the Polisario and its mentor Algeria was tabled before the European Parliament, the issue of extrajudicial executions in the Tindouf camps was brought to the attention of the parliament members during a plenary session Thursday. The issue was raised by Italian MEP Silvia Sardone in […]
The German automaker, BMW, said Thursday that it plans to buy cobalt for the production of its electric vehicles from Moroccan mining company Managem Group as part of a five-year contract worth around €100 million ($113 million). The deal follows a memorandum of understanding on the direct purchase of cobalt signed between the two parties […]
France Thursday announced that residents in Algeria are banned from entering the French territory as part of the prevention against covid-19 pandemic that is fast spreading in the North African country. The European Union last week issued a list of non-European countries whose residents can enter the Schengen area as the 27-country bloc reopened its […]