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Tunisia and Qatar Wednesday during the 6th session of the Tunisian-Qatari High Joint Committee in Doha inked several agreements and the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) including military co-operation between the two countries aiming at tackling terrorism in the region. The agreements cover a range of fields including digital communication, culture and art, media cooperation and […]
Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced in a video recording Tuesday the execution of three “spies” working for the Mauritanian and the French intelligence services, reports say. The group which has been battling the Mauritanian, Malian armies in the Sahel showed in the video recording entitled “traitors” it killed Cheikh Bay Ould Mohamed Ould Habib […]
The Islamic terror movement IS Tuesday celebrated in a video recording the Tunis suicide attack and promised fresh attacks in the Tunisian capital, reports say. The group hailed the suicide bomb attack that rocked the Tunisian capital nearly two weeks ago and which killed 12 members of the Tunisian presidential guard. The attack was perpetrated […]
After a meeting between the leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece in Athens to discuss terrorism, migration and development, President al-Sisi in a joint press conference called on the international community to help stabilize Libya because it has become a major point for the trafficking of weapons and terrorism. Egypt is fighting against terrorism in […]
Moroccan Security services carry on their proactive preemptive operations and strikes against terrorist networks and sleeping cells. They have just announced the arrest two of more suspects with links to the Islamic State. One of the suspects was nabbed in the eastern city of Berkane. He pledged allegiance to the terrorist Islamic radical organisation and […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco called Tuesday for the elaboration of “an effective, integrated national land policy” to overcome the impediments hampering the full development of land zoning in the North African country In his address to the national conference in the resort town of Skhirate (south of Rabat) on the “State land policy and […]
Mauritanian top African Union (AU) Officer in charge of peace keeping operation El Ghassim Wane was appointed last week as Ban Ki-moon’s assistant for UN Peace Keeping Operations, reports say. El Ghassim Wane’s appointment came into force last Thursday and he will replace the outgoing assistant Edmond Mulet of Guatemala, now appointed as Chef de […]
Moroccan intelligence services helped secure a safe trip to Africa for Pope Francis, reports say. Moroccan intelligence services in conjunction with French intelligence service helped to secure a safe tour for Pope Francis to Africa. According to French media Le Mag quoting local media Pope Francis’s two-day stay to Central African Republic (CAR) torn by […]
Libyan rival factions Saturday signed in Tunis a declaration principle aiming at ending four years of conflict in the oil-rich North African country. The one-off meeting between the General National Congress negotiating committee head by the deputy President of the Tripoli body, Mohammed Awad Abdul-Sadiq and the House of Representatives of Tobruk led by the […]
Former Algerian Premier Mouloud Hamrouche Saturday said he feared more for Algeria given the current status quo at the top of the country’s leadership which is unable to formulate suitable solutions to the economic crisis adding that the country needs a “clear national will” in order to recover from the current turmoil. Harmouche was speaking […]