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Drones in Africa: cheap UAV proliferation changes warfare and fuels surge in deaths

Across Africa, a flood of cheap imported drones is fueling conflicts, filling the skies with new dangers, making the warfare deadlier and more indiscriminate, thus increasing civilian casualties. Thanks to the proliferation of easy-to-obtain drones, by some estimates, thousands of African civilians have been killed by the so-called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the past […]

Royal religious lecture highlights spiritual bond between Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa

King Mohammed VI chaired a fifth Ramadan religious lecture highlighting the centuries-old religious, cultural, and human ties between the Maghreb region and Sub-Saharan Africa. In his lecture, Ousmane Kane, Professor of Islamic Thought at Harvard University in the United States of America, challenged the western narrative which tends to treat North Africa as a separate […]

Polisario Leader: Self-Proclaimed SADR is NOT a State as It Relies on Algeria for its Survival

A so-called minister of the polisario armed militia has acknowledged that the self-proclaimed “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic” (SADR) is not a state, affirming that the separatist group has always relied on Algeria for its survival, dealing a hard blow to the Algeria-backed secessionist propaganda. Speaking at a meeting held lately in the city of Mantes-La-Jolie, […]