First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco and the World Bank started Monday in Rabat discussions on a set of issues, on top of which preschool education and the consolidated social register that will identify families deserving to benefit from social assistance programs. The discussions are held during the visit World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa […]
Some 5.15 million tourists visited Tunisia from January to August, posting a 17.5% increase compared to the same period in 2017. The Tunisian tourism ministry said that tourism revenues during the same period surged by 44%. The recovery of the tourist sector will help ease the country’s financial crisis after the 2015 Sousse terrorist attacks […]
Thousands have signed a petition in support of a young woman who held captive for two months and was tortured. “During her captivity, she was subjected to every torture imaginable: She was repeatedly raped by 15 men, beaten, deprived of food and basic sanitary needs, and had her body forcibly tattooed by her captors,” the […]
The cholera epidemic is spreading rapidly in Algeria where more and more people are falling sick, hospitalized or dying from this highly contagious disease, according to local press reports. North African countries are deeply concerned about the situation, fearing contamination, as Algerian authorities were slow to react to the plague, failed to spot the early […]
Morocco is a bridge to Africa, to the Middle East, and to the Muslim world, said U.S. Ambassador nominee to Rabat David T. Fischer during confirmation hearing at the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. “Building a strong relationship with King Mohammed VI will be paramount as we strengthen our collaboration from a foundation of trust”, added […]
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, underscored in his annual report on the Sahara Morocco’s commitment to finding a political solution within its sovereignty and territorial integrity “Morocco has been confidently and responsibly engaged in the dynamic action launched by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in cooperation with his Personal Envoy,” said the report quoting […]
Amazigh activist Salim Yezza received a one year suspended sentence after he criticized on Facebook the Algerian government’s treatment of minorities. Yezza criticized the authorities’ discriminatory policy against the Mozabites, an Amazigh or Berber – ethnic minority in the Ghardaia region. The France-based activist was arrested on July 14 at the Biskra airport as he […]
Morocco’s bid to host the 2030 world cup keeps spilling ink. After speculations of a joint North African organization between Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, Moroccan papers are now speaking of underway preparations for an inter-continental bid between the North African Kingdom and its Iberian neighbors. According to Moroccan news outlet Al Yaoum 24, citing unidentified […]
Morocco has accepted to readmit the Sub-Saharan migrants who got over a border fence separating the Spanish occupied enclave of Ceuta. “The 116 sub-Saharan migrants who entered Spain via the Ceuta border illegally yesterday (Wednesday) have been sent back to Morocco,” the Ceuta prefecture said in a statement. The migrants were returned under a 1992 […]
A scandal! That is how Algerian press described the outbreak of Cholera in Algeria twenty years after it was eradicated. The health ministry confirmed that 41 people have contracted the disease in Algiers, Blida, Tipazza and Bouira, although doctors deem the number lower than the real scale of the outbreak. Jamal Fourara, an official from […]