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King Mohammed VI tasked on Monday outgoing Head of Government and Secretary General of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Abdelilah Benkirane to form a new cabinet after the moderate Islamist party won the Friday legislative elections. The JDP came Read more
The Ethiopian government on Monday accused Cairo of providing support to rebellious Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). Getachew Reda, Ethiopian Government spokesman and Minister of communication was flatly clear: “We know for a fact that the terrorist group OLF is receiving Read more
Turkey and Russia are mending their relations that were significantly affected by the downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015, as highlighted by the signing Monday of a major gas pipeline deal at the ongoing World Energy Congress held Read more
The Egyptian Presidency has refuted press reports claiming that Russia and Egypt are close to reaching an agreement for the establishment of a military base in the North African country. The news was reported by Russian newspaper, Izvestia, citing diplomatic Read more
Russia’s veto of a France-proposed draft resolution over the Syrian war at the UN Security Council strained ties between Paris and Moscow. As a consequence of the veto, President Hollande would be reconsidering his meeting with Putin, “taking into consideration Read more
After he slammed the package deal proposed by Speaker Nabih Berri as unacceptable to any presidential candidate who “has dignity”, Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi lamented, in his Sunday sermon, that the “two years and five months of destructive presidential void” Read more
“The Federal Supreme Court ruled that a decision issued by the Prime Minister last year to abolish the three vice presidential posts for Nuri al-Maliki, Osama al-Nujaifi and Ayad Allawi is unconstitutional”, Spokesman Abdul-Sattar al-Biraqdar of the Supreme Judicial Council Read more
Members of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) led by Saudi Arabia Friday in New York rallied behind Morocco and vowed to oppose any attempt seeking to undermine the North African country’s territorial integrity, referring to manoeuvers to harm Morocco’s sovereignty over Read more
The legislatives elections held on Friday October 7 in Morocco have unveiled a dramatic change in the country’s political landscape with the emergence of two ideologically different poles: a moderate Islamist, conservative trend embodied by the incumbent Justice and Development Read more
Morocco’s moderate Islamists of “Justice and Development Party (PJD) have won 99 out of the 395 seats of the House of Representatives, according to official preliminary results. With 90 pc of the votes counted, the ruling party of head of Read more