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The UN Security Council, on Friday, extended by one year MINURSO’s mandate, reaffirming anew the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara. The Security Council has decided to extend MINURSO’s mandate until Read more
The UAE will open a consulate in Laayoune, becoming the first arabe country to make such a decision. The move signals strong ties of brotherliness and firm support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, the Royal Office said in a statement, announcing Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump announced this Friday, October 23 the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and Sudan, assuring that the two countries had made “peace”. After the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the Hebrew State will normalize its relations Read more
The US Treasury department has slapped sanctions on Iran’s envoy to Iraq and entities for making unclear financial operations to support Iran’s destabilizing foreign agenda and attempting to influence the US next month elections. “Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Read more
Sudan’s Acting Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Tuesday underlined that the removal of the country from the US blacklist has nothing to do with normalization with Israel as Khartoum is rumored to be among countries to follow UAE and Read more
The European Union, EU, has imposed fresh sanctions on seven ministers of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s government, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) reports. The new round of sanctions brings the total number of individuals and entities around the Syrian leader Read more
Iran has posted in Sanaa held by Houthi rebels its new ambassador five years after the last envoy departed. Foreign ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh Saturday told Fars news agency that the new diplomat, Hassan Eyrlou had arrived in the Yemeni Read more
German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz is edging toward resumption of its car assembling operations in Egypt after exiting the North African country in 2015 citing unfavorable tariff policy. Two governmental source told local daily subscription media Enterprise that the German Read more
Yemeni Houthi rebels have released US citizens held in their custodies following mediation by Oman, reports say. “Under the directions of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, the relevant authorities in the Sultanate contacted authorities in Sanaa which agreed to release the Read more
Saudi Arabia-registered company, Red Sea International will provide management, operation and maintenance services to facilities at the kingdom’s futuristic digital city, NEOM, after it signed a $14-million contract with project developer NEOM Company. The deal, Zawya reports, will cover three Read more