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Former Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita died Sunday in Bamako at the age of 76, a year and a half after being overthrown by the military, which is now defying part of the international community. Begun in 2013, the presidency of IBK- as he was commonly called – largely coincided with the turmoil in which […]
Former Head of Spanish News Agency EFE, Luis María Anson, has voiced concern over Washington’s growing preference of Morocco over Spain, saying such a tendency will weaken Madrid’s regional and international influence. The U.S. administration is suspicious of the Spanish government’s rapprochement with the communist party, but also of Pedro Sánchez’s open or undeclared ties […]
Morocco has granted four exploration licenses for gold mines to the Canadian company Stellar AfricaGold Inc. part of its plans to upgrade the exploitation of its natural resources. The Canadian exploration company, which explores precious metals, has announced it secured the four new exploration permits to expand operations in Tichka, at approximately 80 kilometers south-southwest […]
The surge of Omicron has submerged Algerian hospitals suffering from a lack of staff and oxygen amid a total media blackout. Meanwhile, Algeria’s president opts for diversion claiming his country’s health system is the best in Africa. The World Health Organization points regularly at the unreliable pandemic figures released by Algerian authorities, as the official […]
The UN Secretary General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, was in Rabat on Thursday, where he started his first tour of the region since taking office in November 2021. Reiterating its support for the UN envoy, the Biden administration, part of the continuity of the American recognition, in December 2020, of the […]
An online petition has been launched by an activist resident in France, Esther Dahan, against the granting of political asylum in France to the anti-Semitic couple “Dounia and Adnane Filali”. This couple, active on social networks, creates false controversies with hateful, racist, anti-Semitic and malicious speeches. This petition was posted online via the change.org platform […]
The Foreign Ministers of Morocco and Burkina Faso, Nasser Bourita and Hadizatou Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, have renewed their two countries’ commitment to developing multi-dimensional cooperation at the bilateral, regional, and international levels. The two ministers made the pledge in a phone conversation on Friday, January 14. “During this meeting, the two ministers welcomed the excellent ties […]
Morocco and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed to propel a new dynamic in their sectoral cooperation by inviting the government officials of both countries to interact in order to assess the implementation of the agreements previously signed and to jointly identify actions and projects to be undertaken in key sectors, such as health, renewable […]
The struggle for power between top brass is intensifying in Algeria, while the local population is suffering from a severe shortage of food, bread, cocking oil, milk, medicine… Divisions inside the military establishment are deepening, threatening to destabilize further the regime which is rocked by a series of corruption and drugs trafficking scandals involving powerful […]
Morocco is among the five African countries that have reached the United Nations target of vaccinating 10% of the population against COVID-19 by the end of September and 40% before the end of 2021. According to the 2022 World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report, released Thursday in New York, most African countries have vaccinated […]