First Independent Mena Newspaper
Libya’s political Dialogue process is nowhere near over yet. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives (HoR) rejected the amendments introduced at the request of the General National Congress (GNC) to the July Draft initialed in Morocco and pulled out its negotiation team for consultation. The HoR based in Tobruk announced the rejection of Leon’s reviewed […]
Italian car company Iveco in collaboration with Algerian Ival group will start producing cars in Algeria by end of 2016 according to Ival CEO who made the announcement on Tuesday. Ival CEO Mohamed Baïri was speaking on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol of agreement for the establishment of a joint Algeria-Italy industrial […]
Moroccan police have nabbed another group of radical militants who were planning to create an Islamic State affiliate in the North African country and undermine its stability. The cell was operating in the southern city of Essaouira and the central town of Sidi Allal Al-Bahraoui, according to the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), […]
The European Union members largely agreed in Brussels on Monday to carry out military actions against migrant smugglers networks which operate from Libya. Gathered in Brussels, EU ministers of the interior agreed to move to the second phase of EU’s counter-illegal migration strategy adopted in July. The EU interior ministers deemed that “the conditions to […]
The Algerian presidency announced Sunday the “retirement” of the head of Algerian intelligence services (DRS) General Mohamed Mediène nick-named “Toufik”. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Head of State and Minister of National Defense “has put an end to the functions of the Head of Intelligence Department, occupied by General Mohamed Mediene who has retired,” a statement by the […]
UNMIL Chief Bernardino Leon Sunday handed to the Libyan political antagonists present at the Skhirat round of talks a new draft incorporating the amendments demanded by the General National Congress (GNC) of Tripoli. The new draft is a reviewed form of the July draft that was initialled by several Libyan factions including the House of […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid Sunday indicated that the government is considering the lifting of the state of emergency as the security situation has improved. Prime Minister’s statement came after Tunisians staged two demonstrations in Tunis to protest the economic reconciliation bill. The demonstrations were banned by the Interior Ministry which cited terror attacks threats. […]
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry indicated Monday 12 tourists among whom 2 Mexicans have been killed by army fire after they were mistaken for jihadists in Western desert, near the Libyan border. The tourists’ convoy made of 4 four-wheel cars was fired at by army and police forces which were hunting IS fighter in the desert. […]
Egyptians would soon discover the new faces of the cabinet after president Sisi tasked outgoing petroleum minister Sherif Ismail to from a government within a week. The outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab was assumingly forced to resign together with his cabinet after he submitted a report on his government’s activities to the president who dubbed […]
The group of young chambers of commerce (RJCCQ) in Quebec-Canada has named on Thursday Moroccan Monsef Derraji as its new head. The RJCCQ, known in French as Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec, is a group of young chambers of commerce including young chambers of China, France, Latin-America, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa […]