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Agadir hosted 2025 African Lion final planning meeting

The General Staff of the South Zone hosted in Agadir the final planning meeting for the 21st African Lion 2025 exercise February 24 – 28. In addition to representatives from the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and the United States Armed Forces, several allied nations participated in this meeting to finalize the preparations for the various […]

Tuaregs brace for a return to arms as tension simmers in Sahel

The new Sahel nation states have obviously failed to embrace diversity and integrate the Tuareg people whose leaders in Mali and Niger consider a return to the armed struggle against the centralized states. The Tuareg are a nomadic Amazigh people scattered in the greater Sahara notably in what is now southern Algeria and Libya to […]

Moroccan energy minister confirms plan to reserve flow of Maghreb-Europe pipeline

Moroccan energy minister Leila Benali has confirmed news reported last year that the country will reverse the flow of a pipeline that used to channel Algerian gas to Spain via Morocco. Benali told Bloomberg that Morocco has invited LNG operators in Spain to bid for contracts that could last five years with the aim of […]