Egyptian billionaire targets $400M tourism project on Morocco’s Atlantic coast
Samih Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire and CEO of Orascom, a Cairo-based infrastructure and construction giant, is pursuing a $400 million
Moroccan and Spanish security services have dismantled a ISIS affiliated terrorist cell in the Sahel. The operation, carried out by Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations and Spain’s General Intelligence Commissariat, resulted in the arrest of nine suspects operating across Tetouan, Fnideq, Madrid, Ibiza, and Ceuta. The cell members were allegedly involved in promoting extremist ideology, planning terrorist acts, and seeking to join ISIS factions in sub-Saharan Africa.
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