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AG Café has announced plans to open 110 more branches of Tim Hortons in Saudi Arabia by 2024, taking the total number of stores across the country to 200, Zawya reports. The company runs 190 stores, in total across the Read more
Former Tunisian leader Moncef Marzouki, in exile in France, has doubled down in his call to the army to oust incumbent President Kais Saied that he brands “illegitimate”. Speaking in an interview with RFI Monday, Marzouki indicated that he called Read more
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, has reiterated serious concern about the serious human rights violations and growing restrictions imposed by Algerian authorities on fundamental freedoms. “In Algeria, I am concerned about the growing restrictions on fundamental Read more
The sultanate of Oman is planning to build a “metro” that will serve its capital Muscat and tackle road traffic jams due to a rapid rise in its population, Zawya notes citing a government official. Ibrahim Al-Waeli, Director of strategic Read more
United States Deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman renewed, on Tuesday during her visit to Morocco, her country’s support to the autonomy plan, proposed by Morocco in 2007, as a final solution to the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara. Read more
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Co., EETC, will sign a purchase deal with Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power for wind energy of 1,100 megawatts, Zawya reports. EETC, the media notes citing sources, the project would cost over $1.2 billion and would be Read more
UAE and Austria Monday signed a collaboration deal that will help boost hydrogen production and achieve the country’s net-zero emission targets by 2050, reports say. The signing took place during the visit of Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, comprising a “permanent Read more
Baladna QPSC, Qatar’s largest locally-owned food and dairy producer, has acquired 5 per cent in Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries in return for a total investment of $18.4 million. The company in a statement to the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE), Zawya Read more
On Monday, March 7, 2022, the French military announced that it had neutralized a jihadist leader in Mali. On the night of February 25-26, 2022, the Barkhane force conducted an operation targeting a senior member of Al Qaeda in the Read more
Tunisia’s military court has condemned Issam Barkouk; a lawmaker in the country’s suspended parliament, to 10 months in prison with immediate effect, for “attacking the dignity of the army and President Kais Saied’’. The ruling, in absentia, comes almost two Read more