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A Kuwaiti court Monday handed multiple prison sentences to several state officials charged for embezzling public funds, reports say. A criminal court in the Gulf country, The New Arab reports citing local Al Rai, sentenced two former ministry of health Read more
The UN human rights office Monday called on Saudi Arabia to free a prominent women rights activist sentenced nearly to six years in prison. Loujain al-Hathloul, who campaigned in 2018 to lift the ban on the women’s right to drive, Read more
India-based chemical producer, TCI Sanmar Chemicals, is planning to inject $200 million into the Egyptian market in a move that will bring the company’s total investment in the Arab country to $1.7 billion. CEO, Sherif Al-Menoufi, Al Mal News reported, Read more
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude, discovered four new oil and gas fields, the kingdom’s minister of energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz said on Sunday. State oil firm Saudi Aramco discovered 4,452 barrels of unconventional oil Read more
Egypt is in talks with the World Bank for two combined loans valued $400 million earmarked for the financing of transport projects, reports say. The two credit facilities, $200 million each, reports say, are directed for the development of the Read more
King Mohammed VI has had this Friday a phone talk with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which he reiterated Morocco’s unwavering stand on the Palestinian question, and underlined the strong ties binding the Jewish community of Moroccan origin to Read more
Tunisia Thursday detained 28 Egyptian fishermen for illegal fishing activities, the second such an operation in less than one week. The defense ministry of the North African country in a statement, Anadolu news agency reports, said the fishermen were arrested Read more
Morocco has acquired 65 million doses of the two anti-covid vaccines it ordered to combat the coronavirus pandemic. These doses will enable the Kingdom to vaccinate 25 million people. The announcement was made by Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb during Read more
The Process to establish a US consulate in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla is on track, as announced this Thursday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The process to establish a US consulate in Dakhla has been officially launched, Read more
A Sudanese judge member of the judiciary trying former President Omar Bashir over the 1989 coup that brought him to power, has stepped down citing health issues, reports say. Judge Essam Mohamed Ibrahim, announced his resignation during the ninth hearing Read more