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Algeria: British Newspaper Expects More Riots as Water Shortage Anger Mounting

The Guardian has warned that more demonstrations could erupt in Algeria as the authorities are not acting fast to address the water shortage and as people continue struggling to find drinking water. On 8 June, anger over months of water rationing spilled over in the drought-stricken central Algerian town of Tiaret, where demonstrators barricaded roads […]

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Forbes Magazine: Undersea High Speed Rail between Casablanca & Madrid by 2030 ?

There is a good chance that travelers will be able to board a high-speed train in Madrid and travel from Spain to the Moroccan city of Casablanca in five and a half hours, through a new tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, says U.S. Forbes magazine. Spain and Morocco are now reconsidering this ambitious undertaking, […]

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Morocco, U.S. launch in New York Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development

Morocco and the United States have launched in New York the Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development. The group, launched by Morocco’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, and his U.S. counterpart, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, held its first meeting at ambassadorial level at the headquarters of the U.S. Permanent Mission in New […]

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Sahara: Algeria’s desperate resort to mercenaries reflects the very failure of its separatist project in Morocco – Diplomat

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 […]

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Abandoned in desert: EU accused of migrant ‘dumping’ in North Africa, Sahel

The recently endorsed EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum “is going to run into political and possibly also legal challenges and a largely hostile international setting,” says a new study by the Elcano Royal Institute, while especially left-wing organizations denounce it as “the result of a deliberate EU policy aimed at creating a deterrent effect […]

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Russian FM kicks off three-country ‘charm-offensive’ tour of Africa in junta-led Guinea

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has kicked off his three-country African tour in junta-led Guinea, part of a fresh push to bolster support for Moscow from countries on the continent, amidst Russian isolation on the world stage. Russia’s top diplomat arrived Monday (3 June) in the capital Conakry on his latest visit to West Africa, […]

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20th African Lion Exercise officially launched Monday

The official launch of the 20th edition of the African Lion exercise took place Monday at a ceremony held at the headquarters of the South Zone Headquarters in Agadir, in the presence of representatives of the participating countries. In accordance with the high instructions of the King, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of […]

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Kenya’s police officers ready to deploy in violence-stricken Haiti in ‘few days, few weeks’

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have been training since late last year as the East African country is preparing to dispatch them as the first wave of a UN-backed multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation of Haiti. Kenyan police will deploy to Haiti, a country of 11.6 million people, “in the next […]

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DRC: calm restored as army foils ‘attempted coup’ involving US, UK plotters

Democratic Republic of Congo army foiled an attempted coup early Sunday (19 May), the country’s authorities have said, alleging that the coup plotters included some US and UK citizens, and they were led by a Congolese “naturalized American” named Christian Malanga. The streets of DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, appeared calm on Sunday after the army announced […]

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Algeria: Tindouf camps, “Time Bomb” Threatening Regional Security

The Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, located in southern Algeria, are a time bomb threatening the security and stability of the whole region, said Ivory Coast newspaper ‘Le Mandat’. In a story published Thursday on the growing terrorist threats in the Sahel-Sahara, the daily said the region is already facing serious challenges, namely terrorism which claimed hundreds […]