First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Southern zone General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) is hosting, from January 24 to 28, 2022, the master planning meeting of the African Lion 2022 exercise, with the participation of representatives of several countries besides Morocco and the United States. The meeting, held pursuant to the instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Tuesday an additional €3.5 million loan to Land’Or Maroc Industries (LMI), a Moroccan subsidiary of Land’Or, a leading Tunisian producer of processed cheese. The new financing will enable LMI to purchase and install additional equipment and build a storage extension at its new cheese manufacturing […]
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of Guinea’s ruling junta, has named the 81 members of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the transitional legislative body that will decide when civilians return to power. Doctor Danso Kourouma, a civil society activist, was named president of the CNT, according to a decree read out Saturday night on state television. […]
Uniformed soldiers under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba announced Monday on Burkinabe television that they had overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, who took office in 2015 and was sucked into the Sahel turmoil. They announced the end of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré’s powers, the suspension of the National Assembly and the […]
Morocco has launched an ambitious plan to cut its trade deficit by $3.7 billion by offering incentives to local investors to produce imported goods locally, Morocco’s trade minister said. So far 731 industrial projects were eligible for state subsidies, of which 90% will be funded by a Moroccan capital, minister Riad Mezzour told MPs. Most […]
Nadia Akacha, the chief of staff and closest aide of Tunisian President Kais Saied has stepped down citing “fundamental differences” with the country’s leader. “After two years of work, I have decided to resign from my position as head of the presidential cabinet. In view of the profound differences in this responsibility, it is my […]
Morocco’s ambassador to Germany Zohour Alaoui is expected to return to Berlin after German authorities have voiced a clear support to Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty. Rabat recalled its ambassador to Berlin last May and suspended all cooperation ties and contacts with the German embassy in Rabat and German political […]
Morocco deplored the bias shown by Human Rights Watch in its annual report in which it sidelined with separatists and ignored facts on the ground. The International rights watchdog has derailed from the principles of impartiality which were supposed to underpin its work, the interministerial body in charge of human rights said. HRW has also […]
The Moroccan channel Al-Omk Al-Maghribi has exposed the false claims and lies made by Zakaria Moumni, a Moroccan swindler living in Canada. In a video posted on social networks, the Channel affirms that Mounir Al-Majidi and Director-General of national police & domestic intelligence agency Abdellatif Al-Hammouchi are not banned from travelling overseas contrary to Zakaria’s […]
Three people were stabbed during an attack Sunday in a subway station in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Webdo Tunis reports. The National Security District Union of the city told media that the attacker, not described, has been arrested. The attacker, the union added, tried to assault security personnel looking over the Bab Alioua subway. […]