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Morocco now has the full support for its sovereignty over the Sahara territory by two permanent security council members: The US and France. This support would set the direction for UN efforts to peacefully settle the long-frozen Sahara conflict on the basis of autonomy. The UN Security Council resolutions have been welcoming Morocco’s 2007 autonomy […]
Algerian social media is awash with videos showing migrants making the risky Mediterranean crossing to escape misery in their homeland, as the oil and gas-rich country becomes the new launchpad for migrants wishing to reach Europe. As the economic outlook worsens in Algeria, Spanish authorities reported a surge in arrivals from Algeria since 2021. Observers […]
Morocco’s unemployment rate surged to 13.1% on the back of persisting drought in the first half this year, compared with 12.4% the same period last year. Youth unemployment, in particular, soared to 36%, with 19% reported among degree holders, the high commission for planning HCP said. The total number of the unemployed in Morocco grew […]
Sub-Saharan Africa offers opportunity for a $193-billion investment in renewable energy sector by 2031, including utility-scale wind, solar, storage and transmission projects, which may yield an internal rate of return of 15% to 21%, much higher than with similar projects in Europe and the United States, according to a new study. “Africa represents a significantly […]
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani received, on Thursday in Nouakchott, Morocco’s Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, who represented King Mohammed VI at the investiture ceremony of the Mauritanian Head of State for a second five-year term. In a statement to MAP following the audience, Akhannouch said that he informed the Mauritanian President of […]
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted On July 30, 2024, a resolution lifting the arms embargo on the Central African Republic. The embargo had been imposed in 2013 after the start of the civil war, then modified and renewed in 2023. Arms destined for the army were still subject to a declaration requirement. Bangui is […]
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) has claimed it had provided the Tuareg separatist rebels with information that facilitated the devastating attack on Malian government troops and their allied mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, now called Africa Corps. Mali’s military has acknowledged, in a rare admission of a defeat, that it had suffered a “large number” […]
Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch arrived in Nouakchott on Thursday to represent King Mohammed VI at the inauguration ceremony of Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani as President of Mauritania for a second term. Ould El Ghazouani has comfortably won Presidential re-election in July after securing 56.12% of the votes in the first round. Following his […]
As the autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty gains support by global powers to end the Sahara conflict, Algeria’s reactions confirm its standing as the real party to the conflict and reduce the Polisario to its actual status of a proxy militia. Prior to France making its new clear-cut position in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan […]
Angola, which is mediating in the conflict, announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached on Tuesday July 30 between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, which supports the M23 rebellion in North Kivu. A ceasefire agreement has been reached between Kinshasa and Kigali in the conflict between the Congolese army and the Rwandan-backed […]