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Algerian and UN veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has urged both his country and Morocco to leave the Western Sahara issue aside and work to reopen their land borders and normalize commercial activities through the borders for the benefit of the Read more
The UN has sounded the alarm over the appalling human rights violations, ranging from rape, torture, force labor, arbitrary detention, that migrants heading to Europe face in Libya. A report, published jointly by UNSMIL and the UN Human Rights Office, Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired Tuesday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the first meeting on the giant gas pipeline project that will go up from Nigeria to Morocco via several West African countries. This landmark project, the biggest Read more
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for the Sunday suicide bombing in a Coptic cathedral in Cairo that killed at least 25 people and injured more than 49. In a message posted online through its media, Amaq, IS Read more
President al-Sisi announced Monday while attending funerals of those killed in Sunday bombing of a Coptic church that four suspects including a woman have been arrested and that two other are still hunted down. The Egyptian President also named the Read more
Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt has died after staging a hunger strike in protest against a two-year jail term sentence he was handed for offending Algeria’s president in a poem posted online. The news of the death the Algerian journalist prompted Read more
As the media is awash with reports on summary deportations in Algeria, Morocco stands out once again setting the example with the launch of the second phase of its genuine solidarity-based policy regarding sub-Saharan migrants, a ground breaking experience of Read more
Emir Sheikh Sabah of Kuwait called for the adoption of austerity measures because the country’s income has drastically fallen. In an address before the parliament opening session, Sheikh Sabah said he is convinced that all Kuwaitis realize that cutting public Read more
As Egypt mourns the death of at least 24 Coptic Christians killed in a bomb explosion on Sunday in a Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the country’s orthodox church has called for unity while praying for the “martyrs and injured” and hoping Read more
Swiss authorities Friday announced they will extend for one more year the freeze of assets of former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Egypt’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak in Swiss banks. Initially slated to end in January and February 2017, Swiss Read more