First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algeria has been pushing above its weight announcing ambitions to enter the Sahel market without having prepared the necessary infrastructure and competitiveness. Algeria opened a border crossing with Mauritania in 2018 to enable exports of foodstuff through trucks towards Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott. Most Algerian trucks depart from Tindouf, crossing a distance of nearly 3000 km, […]
Morocco’s spending on subsidies of basic consumer goods dropped to 2.2 billion dirhams by April, from 5 billion dirhams the same period last year. The drop in subsidies bill was mainly ascribed to the 68% decrease in the cost of butane gas as well as sugar prices. Morocco also subsidies flour. Therefore, it is expected […]
Egypt has blamed the UAE, its ally in Libya, after protégé rebel Gen. Khalifa Haftar lost early this week a key airbase to forces controlled by UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). Egyptian sources told London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed daily that Cairo has been “very disappointed” by the UAE’s “unilateral moves” in the Libyan crisis. Haftar […]
Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, held a videoconference with the President of Madagascar Andry Nirina Rajoelina. The two men mentioned the famous Covid Organics, the Malagasy herbal tea that is supposed to fight Covid-19. Malagasy President Andry Nirina Rajoelina said the WHO will sign a confidentiality clause on the formulation […]
Tunisia Thursday said mosques and restaurants will open for business from June 4 as part of the second phase of lockdown easing process. The announcement was made by Lobna Jeribi, minister of big projects, who also indicated the progressive resumption of schools from May 26, starting with Kindergarten. Authorities of the North African country began […]
Thirty-one pregnant women have tested positive for coronavirus in Morocco since the beginning of the pandemic, the health ministry said Thursday. Thirty of these pregnant women showed no symptoms of the disease, and one of them was tested positive while her health condition was rather severe, said director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at […]
The Spanish security services dismantled on Wednesday, with the help of Moroccan national police, a four-member terrorist cell led by a Moroccan in Spain, said ABC newspaper. The emir of the cell had fled Morocco to settle in Barcelona years ago. He moved lately to the region of Madrid where he got a farming job. […]
The provisional results of May 17 communal elections in Benin announced by the Electoral Commission in the early hours of Thursday show that the Progressive Union and the Republican Bloc, the two parties of the Head of State, Patrice Talon, took 77% of the 1,815 seats at stake, i.e. 1,555 seats. ‘‘La Force Cauris pour […]
L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), also known as Francophonie, has postponed to next year its 18th summit, initially scheduled for December 2020 in Tunisia, over the covid-19 pandemic. “Due to the health crisis that has hit the entire world and the various uncertainties that stem from it, Tunisia proposed that the summit takes place […]
The Tunisian Tourism Minister Wednesday announced the allocation of nearly $172 million (TND500 million) in the form of loans to help hotels cope with adverse effects of covid-19. Mohamed Ali Toumi said the credit will be available till March next year, but only for one-star to three-star hotels which lost 25 per cent of their […]