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The Civil Coalition for the Protection of Children in the Tindouf Camps, which includes more than 120 NGOs, sounded the alarm bell over the alarming situation of Moroccan children sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, noting that the Algeria-backed separatist group recruits thousands of children, exploits them sexually, enslaves them and forces girls to marry […]
The case of Algerian anti-regime activist Amira Bouraoui has revealed the shaky foundations of the newly found Algiers-Paris ties and showed the fragility of Tunisia’s authoritarian regime which has become a satellite state of the military regime in Algiers. Bouraoui fled to Tunisia seeking to regain France but she was arrested at an airport and […]
Spain has handed ownership of the 106-year-old Cervantes theatre to Morocco after a long shutdown in return for its restoration. The ownership of the theatre was handed to Morocco following a decision of the Spanish government in return for maintaining the Spanish cultural character of the monument. Another condition includes the creation of a Spanish […]
Irked by the humiliating defection of political activist and journalist Amira Bouraoui to France via Tunisia, the Algerian military junta takes revenge on the militant’s family and innocent Tunisian travelers caught up inside the Algerian territory. Mrs. Bouraoui, a 46 year-old French-Algerian national, is one of the Hirak movement activists. A doctor by training, she […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, highlighted, on the occasion of a high-level meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, the courageous and heroic act of the late King Mohammed V, through the protection provided to Moroccans of Jewish confession, during the Second World War, against the brutal and barbaric Nazi regime […]
The Kingdom of Morocco is currently enduring systematic attacks by the European Union Parliament, and these attacks go beyond the ordinary political and diplomatic engagement between states and institutions, underlines former congressman Michael Flanagan in an analysis published by US magazine Newslooks. “These attacks amount to direct interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states,” […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has recently approved a €201,000 grant to Morocco, through its Technical Assistance Fund for Middle-Income Countries, with the objective of providing the government with technical assistance for studies on the design of dams, river development and inter-basin interconnection studies. The assistance, destined to the Directorate of Hydraulic Development of the […]
Khayam Turki, a Tunisian political activist opposed to President Kais Saied, and several other people including businessman Kamel Letaïef were arrested Saturday in capital Tunis on plot against the state charges, their defense teams have announced. The security officers in plain clothes visited, combed Turki’s house and arrested him in the early morning of Saturday […]
The President of Senegal Macky Sall inaugurated Saturday a power plant with a 120 Mega Watt output expected to provide energy to 500,000 households in and around the city of Thies, located West of the African country. The plant build in the town of Malicounda is a public and private partnership. The shareholders include state-run […]
Egyptian Aviation Company and the Arab Investors Union have penned an agreement to promote therapeutic tourism in Egypt through Arab-African cooperation, the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation has revealed in a statement. The deal, signed by Yahya Zakaria, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian Aviation Company and Huda Yassi, President of the […]