Monthly Archives: January 2021

Egypt: U.S.sanctions on HASM terrorists

Posted on January 21, 2021 by huecri

The US has increased sanctions against Harakat Sawa’d Misr terrorist group (HASM) by designating the group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a statement by the State Department read on … Continue reading →

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Arab spring? unfinished business left by 2011

Posted on January 21, 2021 by huecri

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two men blew themselves up in crowded Baghdad Tayaran square  market on January 21 2021, killing at least 32 people.   Suicide attacks against civilian targets were a near-daily tactic of mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents during the … Continue reading →

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Algeria: Revolution devours its children

Posted on January 21, 2021 by huecri

Major General Bouzit has now been fired twice from the same position.Suffering a “consensus deficit,” the Algerian army’s Chief of Staff, Said Chengriha has removed Major General Mohammed Bouzit as the Director General of Documentation and External Security (DGDSE), Algeria’s … Continue reading →

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Algeria: attack near Tunisia

Posted on January 15, 2021 by huecri

The Algerian Ministry of Defense confirmed that 5 people were killed and 3 others were injured “with varying degrees of severity due to the explosion of a homemade bomb, when the utility vehicle in which the victims were on board … Continue reading →

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Cuba: sanctions on BFI

Posted on January 2, 2021 by huecri

The State Department placed Banco Financiero Internacional S.A. in the Cuba Restricted List starting in early January, calling it “a Cuban military-controlled commercial bank that benefits directly from financial transactions at the expense of the Cuban people.”

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Algeria: Said Bouteflika, Toufik, and Tartag acquitted.

Posted on January 2, 2021 by huecri

in November 2020 the Supreme Court said it would retry the case against Bouteflika, chief Gen Mohamed Mediene, known as “Gen Toufik”, and Gen Athmane Tartag. All three have now been acquitted. Bouteflika will be transferred to another prison to … Continue reading →

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