Middle East & North Africa

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: The African Union on Wednesday suspended Sudan from all its activities, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The decision will remain in effect until the reinstatement of the Sudan Transitional Government formed over two years ago after the ouster of former President Omar Al-Bashir.

In a statement, the African Political, Peace and Security Council (PAPS) urged the reinstatement of the transitional government that brought together both the military and civilian officials.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Hackers on Tuesday leaked the private details of hundreds of Israeli army personnel and those who are nearing enlistment age.

Placing the details on the Dark Web, the group – which calls itself Moses Staff – hacked over 165 servers and 254 websites and compiled over 11 terabytes of data, and claimed they have Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz under surveillance.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Spanish Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, made an urgent trip, Wednesday, to Algeria to ensure natural gas supply to Spain amid diplomatic tensions between Algeria and Morocco, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Algeria supplies Spain with around 40 percent of its natural gas, but much of it arrives through the 13.5 billion-cubic-meter Maghreb-Europe (GME) pipeline that flows through Morocco to Spain.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki yesterday called for removing current President Kais Saied, suing him and his aides for "destroying the state and carrying out a coup against the Constitution."

Saied dismissed parliament and seized near total control of the country in July, in a move critics called a coup.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Iran's talks with six world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal will resume by the end of November, its top nuclear negotiator said yesterday, Reuters reports.

"Had a very serious & constructive dialogue with @enriquemora_ on the essential elements for successful negotiations. We agree to start negotiations before the end of November," Ali Bagheri Kani wrote on Twitter after meeting EU officials in Brussels.

"Exact date would be announced in the course of the next week," he added.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: The head of the Hamas Political Bureau abroad called on Wednesday for the issue of Al-Aqsa Mosque to be internationalised in order to raise awareness among key decision-makers about Israeli attacks on the mosque. Khaled Meshaal made his comments in a press release.

27 Oct 2021; MEMO: Tunisia's independent media regulator HAICA said today it had closed a television station, Nesma TV, owned by the Heart of Tunisia party leader Nabil Karoui, and a religious radio station, saying both were operating without a license, Reuters reports.

27 Oct 2021; MEMO: Israelis Against Apartheid have joined the near-universal condemnation of the recent decision to outlaw six Palestinian human rights organisations by labelling them terrorist groups. The Jewish Israeli group, which has over a thousand signatories, slammed the decision in an open letter yesterday urging people to join the global Boycott, Divestment, and San

BAGHDAD, Oct 27 (NNN-NINA) – Up to 10 civilians were killed and 12 others wounded yesterday, in an attack by militants of the extremist Daesh group, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police source said.

“The latest report said, ten people were killed and 12 wounded, in attack in the al-Rashad village,” Alaa al-Saadi from the provincial police said.

CAIRO, Oct 27 (NNN-MENA) – Italian multinational oil and gas company, Eni, made three oil and gas discoveries in Egypt’s Western Desert, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources announced yesterday.

“Eni made three new discoveries in the Meleiha Development Concession and south-west of Meleiha, in Egypt’s Western Desert,” the ministry said in a statement.