First Independent Mena Newspaper
The US Administration has set six conditions to be met by Cairo before it unfreezes the military aid it cut last week, London-based The New Arab reports. Washington decided last week to delay $195m in military aid to Cairo because of concerns over Egypt’s human rights record, the ratification in May by President al-Sisi of […]
The Moroccan origins of the perpetrators of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks offered an easy scapegoat for pundits and media outlets in their attempts to ascribe terrorism to an external factor. By doing so, they further stigmatize a community of 800,000 Moroccan expatriates in Spain and fail to consider the deep causes of Europe’s residual […]
Morocco and Spain maintain close counterterrorism cooperation that includes the reform of the religious sphere and discourse as a key lever in fighting extremist ideologies, said the Spokesperson for the Moroccan government Mustapha El Khalfi. Speaking following the weekly government meeting held Thursday, El Khalfi said that Morocco spares no effort to bring help to […]
The Japanese Foreign Minister made it clear that Japan has never recognized the Polisario’s self-proclaimed republic and deplored the maneuvers of Mozambique authorities in their desperate attempt to give a seat to the separatist entity at the follow-up meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), held on August 24-25 in Maputo. During […]
Armed rivals in northern Mali reached a landmark truce enabling the return of a state governor to the desert city of Kidal for the first time since 2014. The return of the state’s representative came after the main warring rivals, the Coordination of Azawad Movements (MNLA), a coalition of Tuareg separatists, and the pro-government militia […]
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Thursday Benghazi wherein he met Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, the Head of the Libyan National Army, as well as members of the local House of Representatives, challenging the government of Fayez Al-Serraj. This is the first visit by a UK government minister to Benghazi since 2011 and the first […]
In the wake of the terrorist attacks that shook Barcelona and Finland, several media outlets and self-proclaimed pundits took the easy way of putting the blame on Morocco, the country of origin of most of the radicalized youth, instead of lambasting the European laxism and intelligence failure. The desperate attempts at pushing the name of […]
With Gaza entering its fourth month of a serious energy crisis, the United Nations on Thursday released a further $2.5 million from a pooled humanitarian fund to cover urgent needs in the Palestinian enclave, a UN press release said. The disbursement from the Humanitarian Fund for the occupied Palestinian Territory will bolster the UN’s emergency […]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein warmly welcomed the repeal of laws in Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan that allowed rapists to avoid criminal prosecution by marrying their victims. A statement of the office of the High Commissioner quoted him saying that “to punish a rape victim by making her marry […]
Libyan Prime Minister Faiez Serraj, head of the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli, called for help from the EU to stem the flow of migrants, warning that some illegal migrants may pose a terrorist threat when they reach Europe. He warned that would-be terrorists were among the tens of thousands of people able to pass […]