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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for a ceasefire after clashes in a disputed town in the breakaway region of Somaliland left at least 13 people dead. Tensions have been building in Las Anod, the capital of the contested Sool region, since December last year, as the region has been a point of conflict […]
France, the former colonial master in the Sahel, is receiving a series of blows as its foothold shrinks on the back of growing anti-French sentiment and increasing Russian incursions. After their retreat from Mali following a ten-year failure to eradicate Jihadist groups, now Burkina Faso asked France to withdraw its troops from the country within […]
Moroccan lawmakers, lawyers, analysts and representatives of civil society are taking part in a conference hosted this Wednesday by the Moroccan Parliament to discuss the hostile campaign led by some French members of the European Parliament against Morocco. The debate will focus on the use by MEPs of human rights and the Pegasus spyware as […]
The signing ceremony of the industrial compensation agreement Morocco concluded with the American Aeronautics company Boeing was held Wednesday at the headquarters of the National Defense Administration in Rabat. This industrial compensation agreement, which is part of the extension of the acquisition program of Apache helicopters, further illustrates the royal vision aimed at modernizing and […]
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, indicated Tuesday that Moscow was keen to provide assistance to Sahel and Gulf of Guinea countries fighting terrorism, as he was on a two-day trip to ally Mali. “The fight against terrorism is of course a reality for the other countries in the region”, he said at a joint press […]
France has put pressure in the last moments preventing the authoritarian regime in Tunis from handing opposition figure Amira Bouraoui to Algeria. Amira Bouraoui fled persecution under the Algerian regime which banned her from leaving the country for her pro-democracy stands and opposition to the regime. She sought to travel to France from Tunisia. But […]
A Moroccan woman was confirmed dead in the powerful earthquake that hit on Monday Türkiye and Syria Monday. The Moroccan embassy in Ankara said the woman, 51, died in Antakya. She was married to a Turkish citizen. Her 16-year-old son was slightly injured in the quake. King Mohammed VI has offered his condolences to President […]
Cameroon under the directives of President Paul Biya has lined up for a $34.7 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to finance the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the Anglophone Regions of Northwest and Southwest. The plan estimated at around $3 billion encompasses three phases namely rehabilitation and development of […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied fired Tuesday his Foreign Minister Othmane Jerandi and replaced him by the country’s current ambassador to Belgium, his office has announced. The office in a statement said Nabil Ammar has been appointed to take over the department from Jerandi. The statement did not provide details on the rationale behind the move, […]
Senegal and Liberia Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to curtail “illegal and unauthorized” fishing activities within their respective maritime borders. Pape Sagna Mbaye, Senegal’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Economy, and his Liberian counterpart Metieh Glassco signed in capital Dakar the agreement, which according to the Senegalese side, will enable the arrest in Senegalese […]