First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algeria must halt its clampdown against members of the minority Ahmadiyya religious movement, said Amnesty International, ahead of the appeal hearing on June 21 of six Ahmadis sentenced to up to four years in prison for charges relating to the exercise of their religion. At least 280 Ahmadi men and women have faced investigation or […]
A criminal court in the Egyptian capital Monday pressed a ten-year condemnation against First Lt. Yaseen Hatem accused in 2015 for killing political activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh on the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian 2011 revolution. The Monday ruling is the second verdict on the case after another court condemned the officer to 15 years in […]
France attached utmost importance to its special political, economic and security ties with Morocco as evidenced by the recent visit of the newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron to Morocco, a visit that set the future of ties between the two countries on the track of “becoming an axis in global geopolitics,” writes Rudroneel Ghosh […]
Head of the Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani and his Tunisian peer Youssef Chahed chaired on June 19 in Rabat the signing ceremony of 13 cooperation agreements in fields relating to training and economy. The agreements were signed following the 19th High Joint Moroccan-Tunisian committee, which convened following talks between El Othmani and Chahed […]
Millions of commuters across Egypt will benefit from a €290 million financing provided by the EBRD to support the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) in its fleet expansion and upgrade of services. As part of ENR’s locomotive renewal program, the EBRD will finance the acquisition of up to 100 new diesel locomotives under a supply-and-maintenance contract […]
UN Secretary General has confirmed Ghassan Salamé, a Lebanese scholar and Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, as the new head of UNSMIL, in replacement of German veteran diplomat Martin Kobler. Salamé is not a new name in the circle of the UN Secretariat. The 66-year old man previously worked with former Ghanaian […]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived Sunday in the Algerian capital for a two-day visit to discuss crises in the Gulf littoral states, namely the Syrian and Qatar-Gulf disputes. Shortly after arrival, Zarfif met with his counterpart Abdelkader Messahel, Iranian online media Iran Front Page repots. The Iranian official’s talks with Algerian authorities will […]
The army claimed Sunday it neutralized three ‘terrorists’ and arrested several others in ongoing counter-terrorism operation in the east region of the country. The army operations in conjunction with other forces in Constantine and Skikda led to “the elimination of three terrorists, the capture of three others and eight people who were supporting criminal groups, […]
Head of the Tunisian government, Youssef Chahed, is paying on June 18-19 an official visit to Morocco where he will attend the 19th session of the Moroccan-Tunisian High Joint Committee. Leading a delegation comprising several Tunisian cabinet members, Chahed will hold talk with his Moroccan counterpart Saad Eddine El Othmani on a set of issues […]
Former Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Youth in Elche, Alejandro Diaz, was recently arrested and placed on custody on pedophile charges involving minors from the camps of Tindouf. Morocco’s news agency reported that Diaz raped minors coming from the Tindouf camps. The agency, quoting police sources, said that investigators found online conversations in which […]