Morocco’s Leadership Highlighted as UN Member Countries Adopt Migration pact

All 193 UN member states agreed to the first-ever Global Compact on Migration, which will be formally adopted at a conference in Marrakech in December with a view of making migration safe and orderly while curbing human smuggling and trafficking. The all-encompassing Global Compact seeks to better manage international migration, address its challenges, strengthen migrant […]

Morocco Tops North African Countries in Doing Business Rankings

Morocco was ranked the best North African country for doing business and the third in the MENA region in the annual Doing Business rankings. Morocco has slipped one place, in the report published by the World Bank, taking the 69th position globally out of 190 surveyed countries, far ahead of Tunisia (88th), Egypt (128th) and […]

Sahara: Barbados Withdraws Recognition of Self-Proclaimed SADR

Barbados, which froze its recognition of the so-called “SADR” in 2013, withdrew its recognition of this phantom entity, dealing another hard blow to the polisario separatist group and its Algerian supporters. The decision was announced Friday in Rabat by Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley in a joint statement released following her visit to the North […]