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A Moroccan boxer who claimed having been tortured in Morocco was found guilty of libel against the King’s private Secretary Mounir El Majidi. The Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance, which issued its ruling on Wednesday, fined the boxer Zakaria Moumni Read more
About 16 million Moroccans head to the polls on October 7th to choose their MPs for the 395-seat lower house of parliament. These parliamentary elections are the 2nd ballots since the adoption of the new Constitution in 2011 and the Read more
A meeting organized and hosted by France to discuss the Libyan crisis is being questioned because there were no Libyan officials present. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault stated that organizing the event was an “initiative” that he took “on behalf of Read more
Algeria’s Council of Ministers approved the Finance bill for the upcoming year and tempered its expectations on oil and gas by estimating the price of a barrel at $50. The ministers meeting, held under the chairmanship of ailing President Abdelaziz Read more
Moroccan security services have announced lately the arrest of 10 women with links to terror ISIS organization. It is the first time that female militants were captured in the North African country, a key ally of the West in the Read more
The Palestinian high court excluded the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip from the upcoming municipal elections in its ruling on Monday arguing that the judiciary in Gaza does not have the necessary “guarantees” to hold the vote. President Hisham al-Hatoo of the Read more
Ankara’s crackdown on the foiled July 15 coup, allegedly masterminded by Fethullah Gulen on self-imposed exile in the US, continued shortly after the announcement that the state of emergency expiring on October 19 would be extended by three months. In Read more
UN energy expert Gille Bonafi has called the European Union (EU) to lean on Algeria for its energy supply as the North African country can become a world’s leading energy producer given its untold solar energy potential. Speaking in Algiers, Read more
Four Egyptian workers belonging to state-owned power company lost their lives Sunday in the city of Al-Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula after their car hit a roadside bomb believed to have been planted by the Islamic State (IS) group, reports Read more
Dar Si Hmad, a women-led NGO in Morocco, which has installed the world’s largest operational fogwater harvesting system, has been granted the 2016 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Momentum for Change Award. The project has been rewarded Read more