Aminatou Haidar

Morocco building its own defense industry to reduce dependence on foreign-made weapons

Morocco is busy working to reduce its dependence on foreign-made weapons by developing its own defense industry, said Defenseweb online publication. To reach its strategic goal, Morocco signed in 2019 with Brazil an agreement to share military technology. The agreement, which includes “investment cooperation and facilitation” in military industry, is the first of its kind […]

ECOWAS military chiefs to meet in Ghana Thursday, Friday to discuss Niger crisis

Military chiefs from the West African bloc ECOWAS are set to meet Thursday and Friday in Accra, Ghana, to discuss a possible military intervention in Niger, one week after leaders approved deployment of a “standby force”. The meeting was originally slated for Saturday August 12 but has been postponed amid diplomatic efforts to bring new […]

WestMed: Morocco Appointed Co-chair of Steering Committee for 2019

Morocco took over from Algeria as co-chair, with France, for the year 2019, of the Steering Committee of the ministerial conference on the initiative for sustainable development of the blue economy in the western Mediterranean, known as the WestMed Initiative. At the ministerial meeting convened in Algiers on December 3-4, Morocco has been officially designated, […]