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The Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda is refurnishing its image as party leaders announced Thursday separation of religious activities from Politics, reports say. The new orientation is to be confirmed at party’s convention this weekend. Party leader Rached Ghannouchi reportedly told French newspaper Le Monde that the change is coming in a new context, with a […]
Moroccan diplomacy continues to show its anger and express its utter rejection of the contents of the latest report issued by the US Department on the situation of human rights in the North African country. Apparently, tension has not eased between the two sides. US ambassador Dwight Bush was summoned by the Moroccan Foreign Affairs […]
Italian Security authorities Tuesday deported two Moroccans accused of celebrating Islamic State-sponsored terror acts, reports say. One of the arrestees was on prison authorities’ radar after they suspected him for supporting IS terror attacks, according to Italian Interior Minister, Angelinoa Alfano. The second also an in-mate was detained in Palermo and he is believed to […]
Doha proposed the organization of an international conference to relaunch Tunisia’s battered economy, which has been affected since the 2011 revolution. The proposal was made on Wednesday by Emir Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani during during talks with visiting Tunisian President Caid Essebsi. President Essebsi welcomed the announcement and thanked the Qatari Emir Tamim Ben […]
Fierce fighting Wednesday with Islamic State (IS) militants left more than 30 fighters dead and scores wounded among loyal forces to the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) as they were advancing towards Sirte, the stronghold of the terrorist group. “The toll of today’s martyrs reached 32, and 50 others were wounded,” the operations room […]
Egyptian national forces and coastguards assisted by Greek forces have been mobilized on the Mediterranean to look for the missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which disappeared from radar between Paris and Cairo. The plane Airbus A320 is believed to have crashed into the Mediterranean at 2:30 am local time, around 280km north of the Egyptian coast. […]
Morocco, a key ally of the United States and the West in the war against terrorism, has rejected the latest U.S. State Department’s report on human rights in the North African kingdom, saying it includes lies. The contents of the report published on April 13, 2016 by the State Department are “truly scandalous”. The reports’ […]
The Mauritania Supreme Court Tuesday demanded the immediate release of anti-slavery activists arrested two years ago and sentenced to two years in prison, reports say. Biram ould Abeid and Brahim ould Bilal respectively President and deputy President of IRA Mauritanie, an NGO combatting slavery in the country, have been ordered free by the Supreme Court […]
The Egyptian President Tuesday offered Egypt’s help to cement ranks between Palestinian rivals and called on Palestinians and Israelis to seize the “golden” opportunity of peace making proposed by France. “I say to our Palestinian brothers, you must unite the different factions in order to achieve reconciliation the soonest,” President al-Sis said in a televised […]
Forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) claimed Tuesday they retook control of the Abu Grein crossroads, south of Libya’s third city Misrata, where the coastal highway meets the main road south into the desert interior. The crossroads laying 140km west of Sirte where IS has established its stronghold has been overrun […]