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Nine countries showed support for Morocco’s territorial integrity by withdrawing from the Arab-African summit held in Equatorial Guinea’s capital Malabo in protest over the presence of the flag of the Polisario separatists. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Read more
Libya’s black markets have registered an unprecedented surge in the rates of the foreign currencies in exchange of the Libyan dinar over the weekend; further increasing the differences between the Prime Minister-designate Faiez Serraj of the UN-Backed Government of National Read more
The UN Security Council unanimously voted on extending investigations aimed at identifying the perpetrators of the chemical attacks in Syria last year and requested that a report be completed within 90 days by the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Read more
Iran has responded to claims made by eleven Middle Eastern and North African States, about Tehran’s interference in their domestic affairs in a bid to destabilize them, in a message delivered by its Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Read more
Lebanese based Hezbollah had a military parade inside Syria over to commemorate ‘Martyr’s Day’ but the some of the American military hardware that featured in the released pictures have raised eyebrows because Washington considers the group as a terrorist organization. Read more
UN’s official in charge of humanitarian task force in Syria, Jan Egeland, has warned that “the fifth war winter is starting in Syria. There is no doubt it will be the worst in this cruel war, and I fear it Read more
Fatou Bensouda, Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told Wednesday the UN Security Council that her institution will make civil war-ravaged Libya its top priority next year. In an address before the Security Council, the UN top prosecutor Read more
Egyptian authorities on Monday said Saudi Arabia has indefinitely halted shipments of oil products that were part of a $23-billion aid deal with the North African nation. According to Egyptian Oil Ministry spokesman Hamdi Abdel-Aziz, Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, the world’s Read more
Prime Minister Ahmed Obaid Bin Daghr of the Hadi-led government said they accept the proposed UN peace plan “in principle” but also have “reservations” regarding some of the aspects that “favor the Shia Houthi militia and their allies.” The Prime Read more
Saad Hariri has won the approval of the parliament as Prime Minister and he is now tasked with the formation of a government. The 46 year old said he was honored to undertake the “national assignment” while announcing that he Read more