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Paris and Tunis on Monday asked the parties in Libya to fulfill their commitments to restart negotiations under the United Nations aegis. “France and Tunisia together demand that the warring parties ceasefire and keep their commitment to resume negotiations within the United Nations framework to restore security for all, reunite Libyan institutions and start reconstruction […]
The US has ramped up pressure on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end the three-year old diplomatic feud with Qatar on grounds that the crisis generates revenues for embargo-hit Iran. The Trump administration is taking a new tack in trying to resolve a three-year-old Gulf crisis by pressing Saudi Arabia and the […]
On the African continent, as elsewhere in the world, reactions are mounting after the death in the United States of a black man who was smothered in police violence in Minneapolis last week. The African Union, the first to react, as early as last Friday, protested against the conditions of George Floyd’s death. In a […]
UGTT rejects any foreign intervention in Libya from Tunisian territory. The US military command for Africa, AFRICOM, has denied reports it is seeking to deploy a brigade in Tunisia to counter Russia’s influence in neighboring Libya. The offer to deploy the US Security Force Assistance Brigades in Tunisia over Russia’s activities in Libya […]
Washington has accused Russia of covertly deploying at least 14 fighter jets to Libya last week to back the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army of east-based renegade commander Khalifa Haftar in his campaign to oust the government from Tripoli and the Russian state-sponsored private military contractors (PMCs) operating on the ground in Libya. In a statement […]
President Donald Trump is planning to appoint GlaxoSmithKline executive and Moroccan-born US Moncef Slaoui to lead efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported. The US government plans to produce 300 million vaccine doses for the pandemic by the end of 2020 under a plan called “Operation Warp Speed.” Dr Slaoui, 60, joined GlaxoSmithKline in […]
The United States Government transferred, Wednesday, the ownership of 21 specialized vehicles to the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces’ Special Operations (MSOF), the American embassy in Rabat said Thursday in a press release. The operation is valued at $1 million, the release added. The “Security Cooperation Office of the American Embassy and the Utah National Guard […]
The Spanish Civil Guard announced on Friday the arrest in Barcelona of a radicalized Moroccan with ties to the terror ISIS group in a coordinated operation carried out with Morocco’s internal intelligence agency (DGST) and the FBI. According to Spanish investigators, the ISIS operative flouted the coronavirus lockdown in Spain “probably looking for targets”. He […]
News Stream May 05,2020
Sudan Monday said the USA has approved its first ambassador to Washington in a sign of improved relations between the two countries. The Foreign Ministry in a statement said Washington has green-lighted the appointment of veteran diplomat Noureldin Sati as ambassador to the USA. US top diplomat Mike Pompeo had announced in December that the […]