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Tunis is less than two weeks after the terrorist attacks is hosting the Global Social Forum scheduled from 24 to 28 March amid a fearsome climate. More than 70, 000 people are expected at the event. Alaa Talbi, Chief Executive of the Tunisian Forum of Economic and Social Rights and member of the Global Social […]
UN has presented a six-point proposal to end the stand-off between the two rival governments in Tripoli but it is yet to be accepted. The plan entails a “presidential council” with two deputies and “independent personalities not belonging to any party or affiliated with any group” to oversee the transitional period of the country during […]
Just two days after it was officially set up, the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation or BCIJ dismantled on March 22 a terrorist cell that was planning to assassinate military and political personalities as well as civil society activists on behalf of the Islamic State Group. The cell described by the Interior Ministry as […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid fired six police officers on Monday after last week attack on the Bardo Meseum that left 20 foreign visitors dead. The head of tourist security together with the Tunis district police chief, the traffic police commander, a Bardo museum security chief and a commander for the capital’s Sidi Bachir district […]
Washington, Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid have hailed the resumption of the Libyan political dialogue in Morocco, expressing “strong support to the efforts of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Bernardino Leon, and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya”. In a joint statement released this weekend, the six countries congratulated the […]
King Urges Stakeholders to Speed up Action After lengthy debates on the controversial issue of abortion or voluntary interruption of pregnancy, it became clear that it was necessary to amend the current Penal Code which allows abortion only in case pregnancy endangers the life of the mother. Discussions on illegal abortion and the need to […]
Tunisia under its new government has suffered its first terrorist attack as armed men stormed on Wednesday the National Bardo Museum killing at least 22 people; most of them tourists. Security Forces managed to bring the situation under control after a three-hour hostage crisis. The attack has been condemned worldwide and analysts believe that it […]
Morocco and the United Arab Emirates have concluded on Tuesday over 20 cooperation agreements covering the realms of security, politics, energy, education, sports, culture, customs, Islamic affairs, health, communications, and tourism and infrastructure. The first of these agreements, initialed in Casablanca in the presence of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the Crown Prince of Abu […]
Algeria is trying to rally members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as well as non-members to work towards stopping the fall of oil prices. President Bouteflika has sent messages to more than 10 countries regarding the issue and Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi met with Angola’s Oil Minister Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos […]
Algeria has supplied Tunisia with weapons in the past as part of a security agreement between them but a source has claimed that the latest supply which took place on Thursday at a crossing point in the border town of Tebessa involved air-to-surface missiles. Although there has been no official statement about the security transactions […]