First Independent Mena Newspaper
A majority of lawmakers in Burkina Faso voted a new law providing for extending funding and training to local vigilantes in response to the growing firepower of jihadist groups in the Sahel nation. Vigilante groups called koglweogo – “guardians of the bush” in the Moore language – will be the first beneficiaries of the fund. […]
A 25-year old Moroccan seeking asylum in Austria has been arrested for membership with a terrorist group planning attacks for end of 2016, reports say. The man was arrested Monday near the German border small town of Fuschl, in a small center for asylum seekers, French AFP reports. The young man is accused by the […]
Morocco shipped a military cargo carrying scanners, metal detectors and other security equipment to help Madagascar foster security at the summit of the Organisation Internaitonale de la Francophonie, held in Antananarivo on November 26-27. The security equipment will help Malagasy authorities secure the venue of the international Francophonie summit in the Ivato center in the […]
The Tunisian wife of Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been arrested along with another Tunisian woman in East Libya, reports say. Anti-terrorism authorities of Libyan rival government based in the Eastern city of Beida announced the arrest of the women along with their driver. The two women according to Libyan sources were heading to South […]
El Massa, a government newspaper, reported that security forces have foiled a major terrorist attack on the Park Mall in Setif and other planned attacks during the month of Ramadan. Militants linked to the Islamic State group operating in neighboring Libya planned to carry out the attack on the mall, which attracts about 40,000 shoppers […]
The Tunisian government has allocated €230 to the fight against terrorism and is determined to also tackle smuggling, become a major concern for the country’s security and economy, Prime Minister said on Thursday. Prime Minister Habib Essid, who was giving a lecture at the Institute of National Defense, in the military base of Bortal Hayder, […]
Head of Morocco’s internal intelligence service, Abdellatif Hammouchi, who is also Chief of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN,) is visiting Moscow to seal bilateral collaboration in the fight against terrorism. The visit is taking place less than a month following the official visit King Mohammed VI paid to Moscow mid-March. Morocco and Russia […]
French intelligence agencies are recruiting informants in Morocco and other Maghreb countries part of efforts to beef-up their anti-terrorism squads as terrorist threats continue to loom on the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of last November 13. After the Paris attacks, the French Ministry of Defense decided to be more vigilant and […]
Sunni religious experts of several countries met in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to discuss ways to overcome terrorism which has tarnished the image of Islam, misused by terrorists to kill innocent lives as it occurred in Brussels on Tuesday. The two-day meeting gathered prominent Sunni religious experts who have condemned the Brussels attacks and distanced […]
An anti-terrorism operation jointly conducted by Moroccan and Spanish intelligence services in the enclave of Sebta and in the town of Nador led Tuesday at dawn to the arrest of four men suspected for recruiting fighters for the Islamic State terrorist group. According to the announcement made in both countries, the four men built up […]