Le Figaro Highlights Morocco’s Increasing Political, Economic Influence in Africa

French daily, Le Figaro, recently published an analysis of Morocco’s diplomatic offensive to regain its place within the African Union, highlighting the Kingdom’s increasing political, economic and religious clout in the continent. Morocco is set on breaking away with the empty chair policy within Africa’s institutional family by applying for a return to the pan-African […]

Morocco denounces South Africa’s complicity with Algeria, Polisario in letters to UN Security Council, UN SG

Morocco has denounced South Africa’s complicity with Algeria and the polisario, its unconditional appropriation of Algeria’s geopolitical agenda, and its blind ideological support to the armed separatist group. This came in two letters addressed by Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, to the UN Secretary General and to members of the Security […]

Algeria lambasted for abusive prosecution of people for alleged terrorism

Algeria has been lambasted in Geneva for having prosecuted some 260 People for terrorism without any valid proof. About 260 people are prosecuted in Algeria for acts of terrorism although they have not participated in any act of violence, said Karim Salem of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS) on the sidelines of a […]