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UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the ongoing war between the central government of DR Congo and the M23 rebels in the east could spiral into a regional war. Guterres rang the alarm bell as 178,000 people were forced to displace amid a surge in M23 insurgency in the past two weeks. Tutsi-led M23 is […]
A son of the former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has doubled down on his claim that ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy was paid millions of euros in exchange for political and economic favors. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has told French broadcaster RFI that he was personally involved in giving Sarkozy suitcases containing about 5 million euros for […]
Fighting has erupted between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) near the al-Jili oil refinery, located north of the capital Khartoum. The Sudanese Army reported on January 23 reaching the vicinity of the strategically important refinery on Wednesday, following a multi-pronged offensive in the northern part of Khartoum. Witnesses described plumes […]
The fall of the bloody authoritarian Assad regime has uncovered the depth of relations between the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist group and Iran, with Syria acting as the intermediary, said a report published by the Washington-based think-tank Atlantic Council. Amid the chaos following the fall of Damascus, documents emerged showing correspondence between the Syrian Ministry of […]
Morocco and Mauritania are poised to expand their cooperation in the fields of electricity and renewable energy and to explore the establishment of an electric interconnection between the two countries under a memorandum of understanding signed in Rabat on Thursday. The MoU also provides for intensifying the exchange of expertise in electrical safety, implementing projects […]
Morocco has sounded the alarm on the nexus between separatism and terrorism, making reference to the Algeria-backed Polisario armed militia which has ties with terrorist groups threatening regional peace and stability. Speaking during a debate held at UN Security Council this week, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to UN Omar Hilale warned against the alliance between separatist […]
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced plans to discontinue the oil-for-fuel system starting in March 2025, following a request from the Audit Bureau. The NOC has urged the Government to allocate the necessary funds for fuel supply operations, warning that any failure to do so will result in disruptions to critical services such as […]
The Chilean Senate has extended unanimous support to the Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara, put forward by Morocco in 2007 to resolve the dispute over its southern provinces. The Chilean Senate unanimously adopted a resolution in which it “expresses its support for the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara region, which […]
The European Parliament has called on the Algerian regime to release immediately and unconditionally the 75-year-old novelist who was arrested at Algiers airport in November after saying, in an interview with a French TV channel, that western territories of today’s Algeria have been part of Morocco. The literary figure is facing charges of terrorism and […]
Morocco plans to complete a 115,000-seat stadium in Benslimane near Casablanca in 2027, three years ahead of the World Cup it will co-host together with Spain and Portugal, chairman of the World Cup organizing committee Fouzi Lekjaa said on Wednesday. The stadium is expected to be the largest in the world and would cost up […]