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Moroccan security services have dismantled another terror cell linked to the Islamic extremist group ISIS. The six-member cell was active in the cities of Agadir, Amezmez, Chichaoua, Ait Melloul and Laqliaâ (south central Morocco) According to a press release issued by the Interior ministry, investigations showed the cell was planning to join secretly ISIS branch […]
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar is on an African tour to step up diplomatic ties with a host of African nations in a bid to pave the way for a return of Morocco to its empty Seat at the African Union ahead of its upcoming summit in Rwanda, Moroccan Media reported on July 14. A […]
The Tunisian Government and major political stakeholders in the country signed, at the Presidential Palace in Carthage, an agreement to form a unity government. The document, dubbed Carthage Agreement, outlines the major social, economic and security challenges facing Tunisia. Different political parties in addition to the Tunisian Employers Association (UTICA) and the labour Union (UGTT) […]
An Algerian administrative court on Wednesday upheld its last month provisional ruling cancelling the multimillion dollar takeover of the private El Khabar media group by Ness-Prod, a subsidiary of agribusiness group Cevital owned by billionaire Issad Rebrab. The court ruled that the agreement reached between the two parties is null and that El Khabar’s newspaper […]
Head of UNSMIL Wednesday indicated that the future Libyan army may be decentralized in a move to end divisions among regions failing to form a single army. The opposed regions, namely western, southern and eastern, may be given chances to form their own military forces, Martin Kobler told Associated Press. Libya has seen its national […]
Forces loyal to the UN-sponsored Libyan unity government have intensified assault on the Islamic State militants in Sirte in an attempt to dislodge the fighters still holding firm in the coastal city. Air-strikes and shelling resumed sporadically on Tuesday as Misrata powerful militia loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) pushes further into late […]
A member of the UN mission to the Sahara (MINURSO) was recently caught spying on the Moroccan police in the southern city of Laayoune, the Assabah daily reported on July 13. The MINURSO member was intercepted while secretly filming a sit-in by a bunch of separatists in a small neighborhood in Laayoune, the same source […]
French oil company Total has taken its dispute with Algerian authorities to the International Court of Arbitration, via the International Chamber of Commerce in Geneva. Total contests Algerian state oil & gas producer Sonatrach decision to change profit-sharing terms on oil and gas contracts in the mid-2000s. “We tried as always to find a mutual […]
Members of the European parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee have stated that Tunisia’s transitional period needs support and stronger cooperation with the European Union. The MEPs underlined the need “to support the democratic consolidation and promote economic development” in a plan, that the Tunisian state-owned media called a “Marshall Plan” in reference to the post world […]
London-based human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has sounded the alarm over the spike in forced disappearances occurring in Egypt as authorities strive to silence dissident and outspoken voices criticizing the regime’s crackdown policies. AI reveals in a report released Wednesday that forced disappearances have become a tactic to quash critical voices opposed to Al […]