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US State department commends Morocco’s anti-human trafficking efforts

The US State Department welcomed Morocco’s efforts to counter human trafficking in its 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report. Morocco’s crackdown on human trafficking enabled it to integrate tier 2 category of countries that made significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Tunisia was listed among the least performing […]

Sahara: Algeria boycotts Russia energy week amid growing tension

The Rabat-Moscow rapprochement over the Sahara issue has infuriated the Algerian rulers who responded with a boycott of the Russian Energy week 2025, a major international event organized in Moscow October 15 to 17 to discuss key challenges and innovations shaping the global energy sector. According to intelligence sources, a senior Algerian delegation, composed of […]

Moroccan-Nigerian Pipeline Puts Final Nail in Algeria’s Trans-Saharan Gas Project

The agreements signed between Morocco and Nigeria to build an offshore gas pipeline has effectively buried plans to achieve the Trans-Saharan Gas Project that was mulled in 2002 to bring Nigerian gas to the Mediterranean through Niger and Algeria. Former Algerian Interior Minister and ex-Ambassador, Abderrahmane Meziane Cherif bemoaned that his country has been outperformed […]