King Mohammed VI and King felipe-vi Feb 13 2019

Mauritania backs Morocco’s atlantic initiative and gas pipeline

Mauritania will work together with Morocco to advance royal projects aiming to boost connectivity including the Atlantic initiative to offer landlocked Sahel states access to the Atlantic and a gas pipeline project that will connect Nigeria to Morocco benefiting 13 west African states. This came in a royal office statement following talks between King Mohammed […]

Morocco’s King expresses eagerness to expand the close, promising relations with China

King Mohammed VI has expressed his eagerness to promote and expand the close and promising relations existing between Morocco and China that he described as “model” relations. This came in a message of congratulations that the Monarch addressed to President Xi Jinping on China’s National Day. In his message, the King highlighted the “excellent level” […]

EU urges Rwanda to stop backing M23 rebels in east DRC

The European Union has urged Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebel group, which has captured swaths of territory in the North Kivu province of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rwanda must “stop supporting the M23 and use all means to press the M23 to comply with the decisions taken by the EAC (East […]