First Independent Mena Newspaper
Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the Presidency Council and Prime minister-designate of the Government of National Accord (GNA), is expected to meet with some members of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) in Cairo this Friday to discuss the new cabinet members list that is yet to get the vote of confidence of the parliament. Ageela […]
Local private channel Attassia TV announced Thursday it would go ahead and air an interview with former President Moncef Marzouki despite threats from the offices of the President and the Prime minister, reports say. Censorship of an interview with Marzouki, also leader of Al-Irada party, has been at the center of heated debate in Tunisia’s […]
After the spate of setbacks it suffered recently, the drumbeat of bad news for the Polisario and its self-proclaimed Sahrawi republic seems to be continuing as Jamaica has announced this week that it withdraws its recognition of the Sahrawi entity. In an official document of the Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, dated […]
A Moroccan company has won a tender to build Abidjan’s train station which will be a key landmark in Côte d’Ivoire’s capital. The new station will be achieved at a total cost of 900 million dirhams ($92.7 million), said the Moroccan news outlet, hespress.com, citing an exclusive source that requested anonymity. The new station will […]
Morocco has rejected an initiative put forward by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, whereby the UN takes over the works to asphalt the Guegarat road on the borders with Mauritania, Moroccan news outlets reported. In an attempt to avert a resumption of hostilities between the Royal Armed Forces and the Algerian-backed Polisario separatists, the […]
Morocco has expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia by condemning the Justice against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which was recently adopted by the US House of Representatives to allow the victims of 9/11 to sue the government of Saudi Arabia – putting lawmakers on a collision course with the White House. “Targeting and stigmatizing the states- […]
Speaker of the Pan-African Parliament Roger Nkodo Dang said Thursday at the end of a three-day visit to Rabat that Morocco’s return to the African Union (AU) and therefore to the South-Africa-based Pan-African Parliament as envisaged by King Mohammed VI is in progress. The Cameroonian lawmaker said in an interview with Jeune Afrique that he […]
Head of Libya’s Unified National Oil Corporation (NOC) Wednesday announced immediate exportation of the Libyan oil following capture of oil crescent by General Khalifa Haftar forces despite threats of sanctions by western powers supporting the Government of National Accord (GNA), reports say. chairman of the NOC Mustafa Sanalla visited Zueitina; one of four oil terminals […]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate-General, Melchior Wathelet, contested the court’s ruling on December 10, 2015 -which partially annulled the Morocco-EU Agricultural Agreement- on grounds that the Polisario is “not entitled to defend the commercial interests of the population of the Sahara.” The ECJ’s Chief Advocate General challenged, in an opinion piece, the court’s […]
The Royal Office has rebuked in the strongest terms the Secretary General of the Progress and Socialism Party (PPS) for uttering “unfounded” personal statements in which he implicitly accused an advisor to the King of authoritarianism. This came in a statement released Tuesday evening by the Royal Office following an interview given by Benabdellah- who […]