First Independent Mena Newspaper
Some 29 people were injured in a bomb attack on Sunday in the town of Ambo (100 km west of Addis Ababa). The attack targeted a rally staged in support of the party of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. “The bombing of a Dr Abiy rally left 29 people injured, 28 of whom were treated […]
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo killed Sunday in two operation six elements of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), held responsible for the massacre of nearly 400 civilians since November 2019 in the Beni region in the east of the country. A first offensive was launched on the Kikingi axis and the second […]
The Iran-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels unveiled Sunday four new defense systems made locally that will, they claim, change the course of the fight with the Saudi-led international coalition. The rebel group’s agency Saba reported that the systems, dubbed “Saqib 1, Saqib 2, Saqib 3 and Fatir 1” were developed locally. The group’s political leader Mahdi […]
Egypt will start manufacturing electric buses as of November this year under an agreement with China’s Foton Motor. Under the agreement, Foton Motor, which designs and manufactures trucks and buses, will manufacture 2,000 buses over four years, 500 vehicles per year. Production can be increased to 5,000 buses. Minister of Military Production Mohamed […]
Switzerland denied having in its territories a representation of the Polisario, reducing the Algerian-backed group to its status of a separatist militia serving its paymasters’ regional agenda. The Polisario does not have a representation in the UN Geneva neither, said Swiss foreign ministry in a note sent to Morocco’s embassy in Berne. The […]
No coronavirus has been registered in Morocco since the outbreak of the pandemic in China’s Wuhan in December. All the Moroccans who were repatriated from the infected area in China left the hospital following a 20 day-quarantine all in good health. They were 167 Moroccans who had to stay in quarantine at hospitals in Meknes […]
Several United Nations agencies have launched a new project to address the link between terrorism, arms and crime through enhancing national legislative, strategic and operational capacities to prevent, detect and counter the firearms trafficking and other illegal activities related to terrorism and organized crime. The UN has repeatedly warned that illicit flows of small arms […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted Morocco a $204 million loan, destined to finance the Social Protection Improvement Support Program (PAAPS). The loan, extended over 4 years, will back an integrated support program for the improvement of social protection in Morocco, the aim being to achieve 80 per cent social security coverage in […]
Military and defense cooperation between Morocco and Pakistan was reviewed at the meetings Chief of Pakistani Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa held Thursday in Rabat with Moroccan officials. The Pakistani General’s talks with Abdeltif Loudyi, Minister Delegate for National Defense Administration, covered the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation, “marked by confidence, mutual respect […]
The French Barkhane force has neutralized recently about fifty jihadists in central Mali, announced the French General Staff. Between February 9 and 17, Barkhane carried out several operations in central Mali around the town of Mopti, enabling the force to neutralize fifty jihadists, destroy around thirty motorcycles and two pickups, and seize weapons, phones and […]