First Independent Mena Newspaper
After the capture and killing of Colonel Muamar Gadhafi, Libya was poised to head for a transition towards democracy. However, the past two weeks have been the most intense fighting the country has witnessed since the end of the war. Governments which once backed the rebels against the regime are now evacuating their diplomats and […]
Chinese operators and firms have started looking towards Morocco for new locations of their businesses or production units. The Chinese Shandong Shangang group, a world leader in the manufacture of steel products, is one of these groups which decided to set up a unit in the Tangier free zone in Northern Morocco. A memorandum of […]
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi used his speech marking the 23 July 1952 revolution anniversary to address state issues amongst which was also the much criticized snubbed ceasefire by Hamas. The 23 July 1952 revolution anniversary marks the end of monarchy in Egypt and paved way for a presidential system of government. The 1952 revolution was led […]
Morocco’s leading telecommunications group Maroc Telecom or IAM seems upbeat about its growth in 2014 as the financial results for the first half of the current year showed a slight increase compared to the same period last year. The company’s turnover actually reached 14,564 Billion Moroccan dirhams to 14,468 Billion during the same period of […]
Tripoli international airport has become the center of interest of different rebel groups in Libya. The airport is controlled by the rebels from Zintan but the Islamists and fighters from Misrata want to take it over from them. The Zintan rebels are being accused of backing the liberalists in the Libyan parliament. The clashes have […]
Tunisia is mourning 14 of its soldiers killed while breaking their fast at their posts near the Algerian border. A soldier still remains missing. The attack on two army posts is believed to have been carried out by “terrorist groups” linked to Al-Qaeda. No group has claimed responsibility yet but the government has already pinpointed […]
Morocco’s aeronautics industry sector which has constantly progressed since it was launched in the late nineties of the last century has attracted this week a € 45 million new investment. The investment will be injected by Aerolia, an Airbus Group subsidiary, and Alcoa, a global leader in lightweight metals technology, which has reoriented its activity […]
An aide to the former Libyan Prime Minster Ali Zeidan has revealed that the country could be gearing up for a major long battle between Islamists and the militia headed by Khalifa Haftar. Libyans who were sent by the Islamists to fight in Syria and Iraq are now returning to fight against the men of […]
The relations between Nouakchott and Washington with regards to the fight against terrorism have been boosted with a $21million worth of military aircraft equipment to counter the growing threat of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Mauritania is considered as a strategic location to fight against terrorism in the Maghreb and its soldiers also have […]
The two-day official visit King Felip VI of Spain is paying to Morocco as of this Monday, less than a month after his enthronement following the abdication of his father, translates the special importance the two countries grant to their strategic relationship and shows that the changeover of power in Spain is not having any […]