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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 […]
Spanish and Moroccan security authorities Wednesday announced the arrest of four suspected Islamic State group militants in a joint security operation. The joint operation underlines the close cooperation between the two counties in anti-terror struggle. Two of the suspects were arrested in Spain by the country’s security forces, the interior ministry announced. The first suspect; […]
Spain’s national court Tuesday ordered the deportation of a Moroccan who has been found guilty of setting ablaze a church in the north of the country. Nawfal El Khayat, 21, has been found guilty of torching a church in the town of Fontellas, in the autonomous community of Navarre. His action, according to Spanish judicial […]
Italy’s energy company Eni and Algeria’s state-owned hydrocarbons firm, Sonatrach, inked an agreement to build a solar plant to help the north African country reduce its dependency on gas. In addition to meeting local electricity demand, the plant would also free up more gas for the export market, local media said. The 10MW plant will […]
The association of victims of the Polisario Front, who suffered from torture practices and human rights abuses in Tindouf camp, in Algeria, Tuesday called on the autonomous government of the Spanish archipelago to help justice prevail and bring members of the separatist movement wandering in the archipelago to the book, reports say. Dahi Aguai, head […]