02 April 2022; MEMO: Iran has announced that it is willing to trade with Russia in national currencies, citing already existing deals and opportunities, Sputnik reported on Friday.
Sputnik reported Vice-Governor of Iranian Central Bank Mohsen Karimi confirming that both countries would use: "National currencies – the ruble and the toman – and agreements on this matter already exist."
02 April 2022; MEMO: The Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has called on university heads to participate in a panel discussion organised by an Israeli university, as reported on Friday.
The session is to be organised by the International Centre for Israeli Diplomacy at Reichman University in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.
02 April 2022; MEMO: The United States could have done more to eliminate the chances of killing civilians in the campaign to capture the city of Raqqa in northern Syria three years ago, a newly-released report by the RAND Corporation has stated.
02 April 2022; MEMO: Speaker of the dissolved Tunisian Parliament Rached Ghannouchi confirmed on Friday that the people of his country are "well and resist autocracy", describing President Kais Saied's decision to dissolve Parliament as "serious and void".
This came in a statement to press correspondents after the Anti-Terrorism Unit investigated him in Tunis.
02 April 2022; MEMO: Leader of the Ennahda Movement Noureddine Bhiri on Friday accused Tunisian President Kais Saied and Minister of Interior Taoufik Charfeddine of "attempting to assassinate" him.
On 31 December, 2021, the Tunisian authorities placed Bhiri under house arrest on suspicion of his "involvement in a serious threat to public security" before releasing him on 8 March.
02 April 2022; MEMO: The director of the Algerian Sonatrach Petroleum Corporation Tawfiq Hakkar has announced that his country is currently unable to be an alternative provider of Russian gas for European partners.
02 April 2022; MEMO: Thousands of protesters in Jordan marched on Friday in Amman, chanting slogans in support of the Palestinian resistance and rejecting Arab normalisation with Israel, Anadolu Agency reported.
Jordanians gathered in front of the Grand Husseini Mosque in central Amman following Friday prayer, while Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front Murad Adayleh and former Islamic MP Ali Abul Sukkar headed the march.
BAGHDAD, Apr 2 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq exported more than 100.56 million barrels of crude oil in Mar, bringing in revenues of 11.07 billion U.S. dollars, the highest monthly revenue since 1972, the Iraqi oil ministry said yesterday.
The average selling price for crude oil in the month was 110.09 dollars per barrel, according to a ministry statement, citing statistics from the State Organisation for Marketing of Oil.
AMMAN, April 2 (Reuters) - A United Nations-led truce in Yemen is a "decisive moment" in the near seven-year conflict and offers hope the warring parties and international community can bring a lasting peace to the devastated country, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said the U.N.- brokered two-month truce between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi group aligned with Iran, which comes into effect on Saturday, was a "first step" to a permanent ceasefire.
RIYADH, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry welcomed on Saturday a two-month truce in Yemen announced by the United Nations, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg announced on Friday the two-month truce, which will become effective at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) on Saturday, through which all forms of military operations inside Yemen and on the Saudi-Yemeni borders shall be halted.
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