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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just adopted the complete, undivided map of Morocco, including its Sahara, following suit to the United States, which made the same move after it recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara provinces. NATO’s move deals another blow to the enemies of the Kingdom’s territorial integrity, comments the news outlet […]
The Central Bank of Libya, CBL, held Monday for the first time a full board meeting since 2014 after which the bank was split into two. The bank, Libya Observer reports, held a full-quorum meeting for the first time in six years to discuss fixing exchange rates of the Libyan dinar to foreign currencies. The […]
The European Union called on Tuesday for an immediate and independent investigation into the mass graves discovered lately in the Libyan town of Tarhuna, after it was recaptured from the forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar. A statement issued by the EU spokesperson stressed the need of this probe to bring those responsible for these atrocities […]
Government of National Accord (GNA) leader Faiez Serraj Wednesday ruled out possibilities to sit down again at a negotiation table with his rival Khalifa Haftar that he accused of committing crimes against all Libyans. In an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica, published Wednesday, Serraj charged the east-based retired military General with bombing “indiscriminately Tripoli, residential […]
Mahmoud Jibril, a former Premier has died in Egypt where he hospitalized after he tested positive for covid-19 in March, reports say. Jibril’s party, National Forces Alliance, founded in 2012, announced his death Sunday. The 68-year old man led National Transitional Council, the de facto Libyan government during the months-long NATO-backed revolution that removed and […]
Preparations for NATO Regional Exercise (REGEX 20), to be hosted by Morocco in November 2020, were reviewed Monday in Rabat by Lt. General, Inspector General of Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and Lt.General Hans-Werner Wiermann, chief of NATO International Military Staff. Talks between the two Generals also covered military cooperation between FAR and NATO, said a […]
Morocco and the United States convened on Wednesday a working group of the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue in Washington to enhance further the existing security cooperation between the two countries. The meeting was co-chaired by Nathan A. Sales,US Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Director of Global Affairs at the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ismail Chekkori in […]
Head of the UN mission in Libya Saturday said it will be hard for the country to hold its much expected elections on December 10 as agreed by various stakeholders in May at a Paris meeting. “There is still a lot to do. It may not be possible to respect the date of December 10,” […]
US military command for Africa AFRICOM said Thursday it conducted several strikes against the Islamic State (IS) fighters near the city of Sirte following last week Friday sorties. The new airstrikes according to the command took place Tuesday with the coordination of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). The Tuesday airstrike destroyed IS positions, […]
France’s new President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that the “invasions” of foreign forces in Libya to end Colonel Muammar Gadhafi’s rule in 2011 was an error. In an interview with European Media, a part of which was published by Il Corriere della Sera newspaper, the French President said “(France) was wrong to join the war […]