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Spain has sounded the alarm over the steady enlistment of Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps, Algeria, into the ranks of the Islamic state group, ISIS. Fidel Sendagorta, Head of the European country’s foreign policy and security at the foreign ministry, has warned the Spanish Interior Ministry, the US embassy and other missions in Madrid about the dangers of such recruitment by terrorist groups, operating in the Sahel, notably ISIS, news outlet Le360.ma reports.   Spain has been watchful of activities going on in the Tindouf camps, in Algeria, near the borders with Mauritania and Morocco and had urged, last December, its nationals not to go to these camps, where they risk both attacks and kidnappings by “Daesh in the Great Sahara”.   Several executives of the separatist Polisar...

The Unites States and the European Union have pledged to back Tunisia’s tourism industry severely affected by the covid-19 pandemic with a combined investment valued at more than €100 million. The US support will come from its development agency, USAID, which has pledged to mobilize between $30 million and $50 million for “Visit Tunisia” program aiming at promoting a “sustainable tourism” for the next five years. The EU’s contribution supported by Germany’s international aid agency GIZ, is valued at around €50.5 million and will be allocated in the framework of “La Tunisie est notre destination” [Tunisia is our destination] program for 2020-2024 period. Tunisia’s tourism industry, the second biggest national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contributor, 14 per cent behind the agriculture se...

The Indian embassy in Haifa paid tributes to Indian soldiers who liberated the northern Israeli coastal city of Hafia from the Ottomans over a century ago. Israel celebrates Haifa Day every year on September 23. But what many Indians don't know is that the Indian soldiers are remembered for their pivotal role in liberating Haifa from Ottoman rule during World War I. In fact, the textbooks in Israel also mention the role of Indian soldiers, even though not much is talked about the back home. As a mark of respect to the soldiers, the Indian mission changed the display profile pictures of their Facebook and Twitter accounts at 2:45 PM (local time), the hour historians believe they liberated and marched into the city 102 years ago. The Indian Army, too, commemorates September 23 every year as ...