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The Sahrawi human rights defender and former prisoner in the jails of the polisario, Fadel Breika, denounced Monday in Geneva the climate of terror, intimidation and repression prevailing in the polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, urging the international community to put pressure on Algeria to end the state of lawlessness in these camps. Speaking with the Working […]
Morocco has joined the Macolin Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, a multilateral treaty seeking to prevent, detect, and punish match-fixing in sports. Morocco’s ambassador to France Chakib Benmoussa signed on Monday this convention in Strasbourg, at the Headquarters of the Council of Europe, with Deputy Secretary General of the European Council Bjorn Berge. […]
Acquiring advanced combat drones has featured as a main component of Morocco’s army modernization efforts with the receipt of 12 Turkish Bayraktar drones and news of an upcoming launch of the manufacturing of Israeli Kamikaze drones in the North African Kingdom. The first batch from Turkey, which is part of an order of 13 Bayraktar […]
The Malian National Transitional Council (NTC) adopted two amnesty bills, benefiting the junta, for the coups that led to the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020 and the ouster of transitional president Bah Ndaw in May 2021. “No legal action can be taken against the perpetrators. We cannot prosecute officials for offenses […]
Egypt and Saudi Arabia will sign soon multiple contracts for a 2 GW electricity transmission network that will connect the two countries’ grids. The project worth $1.6 billion will connect both countries’ grids with 900 kilometers of overhead transmission cables and pass across the sea bed, for 25 kilometers. Egypt will finance 40 per cent […]
Two military personnel loyal to Eastern Libyan rebel General Khalifa Haftar died Sunday after 2 helicopters collided over the village of Msus, 130 kilometers southeast of the city of Benghazi. Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) controlled by Haftar said in a statement Sunday Brig. Gen. Bouzied al-Barrasi was among the two casualties. The crew of […]
Morocco and Mauritania have voiced their shared determination to intensify their contacts and permanent consultations to serve the common interests of the two brotherly peoples. This determination was expressed at a phone conversation Sunday between, the two countries’ Foreign Ministers, Nasser Bourita, and Ismael Ould Cheikh Ahmed. According to the Mauritanian news agency “AMI”, the […]
The Socialist Forces Front (FFS), the oldest opposition party in Algeria, has denounced “the systematic recourse to security management of state affairs”. The party has voiced “serious concern” over the “return of arbitrary arrests”, saying the systematic recourse to the security management of state affairs aims to “crush popular aspirations to freedom, dignity and social […]
A large delegation of Polish businessmen was on a visit to Morocco this week during which it made a trip to Laayoune to explore investment opportunities in the Moroccan southern provinces. At a meeting later in Rabat with the Foreign Minister, head of the Polish economic mission, Robert Jędrzejczyk, said the potential of the southern […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences and compassion to the Algerian Head of State following the demise of the former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. In his message, King Mohammed VI said he learned the news of the death of Bouteflika with “deep sorrow and deep emotion,” and expressed in these painful circumstances to […]