Mauritania is looking to Morocco as an economic and security ally in a region plagued by instability and closed-borders. After a political and diplomatic rapprochement that ended years of aloofness sowed by the previous Mauritanian administration, Morocco and Mauritania now look forward to fostering security cooperation. Two high-level delegations of Mauritanian security and military officials […]
Morocco’s plan to generalize social protection and safety nets is on track. Concrete measures, spurred by King Mohammed VI, have been taken to strengthen welfare with the aim of achieving social justice and promoting the health offer. In a ceremony chaired by King Mohammed VI Wednesday, the broad lines of this ambitious project, described as […]
Africa had its fair share of military power-grabs – actually, it had a good deal more than that. Throughout the Cold War, military coups were the rule, not the exception. And Egypt, the bridge between the African and Arab worlds, was no stranger to coups. After all, it was a coup by the Free Officers […]
