The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger signed over the weekend a mutual defense pact establishing an Alliance of Sahel States (AES) that will allow them to cooperate against threats of armed rebellion or external aggression. The AES was established by the Liptako-Gourma Charter, in reference to a region, where the Mali, Burkina […]
King Mohammed VI hosted in Rabat on Wednesday a luncheon in honor of the President of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez, and his accompanying delegation that included Foreign Affairs Minister José Manuel Albares. Besides the Head of the Moroccan Government, Aziz Akhannouch, who presided over the luncheon, other members of the delegation accompanying Sánchez, Speaker […]
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered straightforward remarks ending decades of complacency towards Algeria’s military regime. Macron described the military rulers of Algiers as “exhausted” and surviving on “memorial rent” based on hatred of French. Algeria responded by recalling its ambassador and on Oct.3, AFP and French media reported, citing military sources, that Algiers closed its […]
