First Independent Mena Newspaper
The chairman of Algerian business leaders’ forum has resigned from his position few days after he was banned from leaving the country and put on a blacklist of people denied trips abroad by the army. Ali Haddad in a letter said he was quitting in order to preserve the cohesion and durability of the organization. […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahid accepted the resignation of health minister Abderraouf Cherif after the death of 11 babies at a government hospital. “An administrative investigation has been open and those responsible will be prosecuted,” said the Prime Minister while expressing sympathy with the families of the victims. The health ministry ascribed the tragedy to […]
Algerian Louisa Ighilahriz, a prominent resistance figure, has announced her resignation from the upper house of parliament, citing her opposition to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to run for a fifth term in office in 2019. “I refuse this because he is not the actual ruler. Other people are ruling in his name,” she told Algerian […]
Minister of General Affairs and Governance, Lahcen Daoudi, was forced to resign after his participation in an anti-boycott demonstration triggered an uproar of discontent within his party, the ruling PJD, which is leading a coalition government. The General Secretariat of the Party for Justice and Development announced Wednesday evening it has accepted the resignation of […]
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has accepted to put on hold his announced resignation pending new negotiations after President Michel Aoun asked him to do so. “I presented today my resignation to President Aoun and he urged me to wait before offering it and to hold onto it for more dialogue about its reasons and […]
Ilyas El Omari, Secretary General of Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), the main opposition party in parliament, presented his resignation on the backdrop of protests in northern Morocco and ten days only after a critical speech by the King lambasting political parties and public officials for falling short to fulfil their duties in serving […]