First Independent Mena Newspaper
France reiterated its position in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan as a serious and credible basis to find a lasting solution to the Sahara dispute. “France considers the autonomy plan put forward by Morocco in 2007 as a serious and credible basis for a negotiated solution,” the spokesperson for the French Presidency, Romain Nadal told […]
London-based Human rights group Amnesty International Tuesday called on Spain and the kingdom of Morocco to respect the international law concerning migrants’ human rights after the NGO in a report accused both countries of inhuman treatment given to some migrants because of their nationality and sexual orientation. Migrants largely hailing from Africa and Syria are […]
A day after the European Parliament (EP) voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution to freeze talks on the adhesion of Turkey to the European Union (EU), President Erdogan blasted the EU bloc that the results have “no value in our eyes” and warned on Friday that Turkey could ease access to the EU by […]
Spanish security forces over the week-end arrested in Madrid and near Barcelona two Moroccans operating as recruiters for the Islamic State group (IS), reports say. The two men operating in separate cells were nabbed in Madrid and at Roda de Ter near Barcelona on Saturday, the interior ministry announced. The IS militants according to the […]
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday announced his retreat from political life following his big loss at party’s primaries first around to decide who will represent the center-right les Republicains at next year presidential elections. Seeing himself as saviour, the one to lift France out of it economic slowdown, Sarkozy on Sunday failed to convince […]
The British public broadcaster, BBC, on Wednesday announced that it will launch 11 new language services in 2017 as part of its expansion project on the continent. The new languages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. Afaan Oromo and Amharic are widely spoken in Ethiopia with […]
The international league for Moroccan expatriates’ freedom and rights has drawn the attention of Spanish legal authorities specialized in crime against humanity cases on the need to arrest the Front Polisario Chief Brahim Ghali who may visit Spain very soon though he has been sued in Spanish courts for crime against humanity. The league’s legal […]
Non-stop hunting of terrorists continues in Spain as security authorities announced Wednesday the arrest of another Moroccan Jihadist, two days after netting two religious leaders accused of promoting the Islamic State group (IS) on the Balearic Island of Ibiza. A total of 157 terrorists have been arrested since 2015, when the security alert level was […]
Spain is in crusade against terrorists from all stripes. Security authorities have announced the arrest of two Moroccan Imams, in the Balearic island of Ibiza, suspected for promoting the Islamic State group (IS), few days after nabbing two other terrorists. The Imams, aged respectively 31 and 35, are IS sympathizers and have been using social […]
Chief prosecutors of France, Belgium, Spain and Morocco are meeting in French capital of Paris to discuss ways to improve intelligence sharing between the four countries in their counter-terrorism cooperation, reports say. The meeting in Paris is attended by François Molins from France, Javier Zaragoza from Spain as well as Moulay Hassan Daki and Frédéric […]