First Independent Mena Newspaper
Morocco, a country of openness, is “keen” to build bridges between cultures and religions, as enshrined in the Kingdom’s multicultural identity, and reflected in the fundamental provisions of the Constitution, Morocco’s Permanent Mission in Geneva stressed on Friday. This came during a panel on “countering religious hatred constituting incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” held […]
Junta-led Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have agreed to create a joint force to battle security threats, most notably long-running jihadist rebellions, across their territories. Violence in the wider Sahel region fueled by the decade-long fight with Islamist groups has worsened since the three countries’ militaries seized power in a series of coups from 2020 […]
An unknown number of people, mainly girls and women, have been abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Feb 6 in the Nigerian north eastern province of Gamborou Ngala. The near 200 victims are internally displaced living in a camp, said the UN as it condemned the kidnapping and urged the immediate release of the […]
Moroccan Rabha El Haymar has been awarded US International Women of Courage Award 2024 for her successful efforts made to gain recognition of her traditional marriage to spare her daughter a life of marginalization and discrimination as an undocumented child. Ms. Rabha has navigated her country’s legal system thanks to a recourse provided by Morocco’s […]
Germany, which currently chairs the Sahel Alliance, a key development body in the conflict-torn region, makes efforts to boost trust in state structures in countries such as Burkina Faso also by showing its willingness to interact with the post-coup regimes. Burkina Faso and Benin are part of a trip to the Sahel region by German […]
Militias of the terrorist Polisario group murdered three Sub-Saharans last Tuesday evening, a few kilometers from the camps of Tindouf in Algeria, according to sources quoted by the news website Sahel Intelligence. The three men were accompanying Sahrawis attempting to flee the Tindouf camps, where terror imposed by the Polisario prevails. General Saïd Chengriha, chief […]
Participants in a scientific conference, held in Kampala, Uganda, Feb.24-25, highlighted the role and action of the Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema in the achievement and preservation of spiritual security in Africa. The speakers at this conference organized by the Ugandan section of the Foundation, underlined the importance of stability and spiritual security in […]
Chairman of the Council of Secretaries of the Humanitarian Funds of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Hassan Al-Thani, commended the “leading” role of King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al Quds Committee, in supporting the Holy City, its inhabitants and its institutions. During a visit to the headquarters in Rabat […]
The United States, the United Kingdom and Spain have issued security alerts, warning their citizens residing in or visiting Algeria against any travel to the city of Tindouf or the surrounding Polisario-controlled camps. The travel warnings came amid ongoing demonstrations organized by young Sahrawis in the city and its surroundings against the Polisario and Algerian […]
Spain took over from Morocco the rotating presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM) for a one-year term. The transition of the PA-UfM presidency to Spain took place at the conclusion of the Assembly’s 17th plenary session, held in Rabat with the participation of parliamentarians from over 42 member countries […]