First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algeria’s desperate resort to three mercenaries, traitors to their country, as so-called petitioners to talk not about the Moroccan Sahara, but to call for violence and attack the sacred institutions of the Kingdom, reflects the very failure of the Algerian regime’s separatist scheme in Morocco. The remarks were made by Morocco’s permanent representative to the […]
Morocco has been re-elected, in the person of Abdelmajid Makni, to the United Nation Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CPRD) for a second term, in elections held on the occasion of the 17th Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held June 11-13, in […]
Algeria’s diplomacy refuses to look in the mirror as it continues to suffer setbacks in support of a Polisario separatist militia that has become a real liability for the military rulers in Algiers. Algeria’s erratic diplomacy has reaped but defeats as the number of Polisario supporters has diminished to be limited to a handful of […]
Several UN petitioners have praised the growing international support for Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, highlighted the impressive socioeconomic development in the Sahara and denounced the human rights violations in Tindouf camps and the Algerian regime anti-Moroccan pathological obsession. Addressing the annual session of the United Nations C-24 convening in […]
Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has announced 21 days of national mourning after the wreckage of the small military plane carrying the late Vice President Saulous Chilima, a former first lady and seven other passengers was discovered by authorities on Tuesday (11 June). Chilima and eight others were killed on impact after the twin propeller aircraft […]
About half of the 59 armed conflicts worldwide in 2023 — the highest number since the end of World War II — occurred in Africa, according to a new study released by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO). Last year witnessed 59 conflicts around the globe, of which 28 armed conflicts took place in […]
Hundreds of Tunisians are in jail for writing checks they were unable to pay in a debt imprisonment practice that destroys households and businesses in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch warned. In a 41-page report, HRW outlined the defaults of the archaic legislation on checks with insufficient funds, adding that sending insolvent people […]
Senegal’s Sangomar oil and gas field has produced its first oil, operator Woodside Energy said, with the newly elected president Bassirou Faye promising that oil revenue will be “well managed.” Senegal also expected to start producing gas this year in the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore field which it shares with Mauritania. “This is an historic […]
Morocco and Italy have agreed to strengthen further cooperation ties to counter common challenges, including terrorist threats, illegal migration and Transnational Organized Crime. The agreement was reached during the meeting held Tuesday in Rabat between Moroccan interior minister Abdelouafi Laftit and Italian peer Matteo Piantedosi. The two ministers discussed bilateral relations and regional issues of […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on Wednesday a €45.5 million loan to Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products Maroc (ECP Maroc) to enable the Moroccan subsidiary of Turkish group Eczacıbaşı Consumer Products (ECP) to acquire Jeesr, a leading manufacturer of tissue paper products in Morocco. This is the Bank’s first cross-border acquisition financing package […]