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International momentum behind Morocco’s autonomy initiative for the Sahara region gained prominent display at the United Nations Fourth Committee meeting in New York, where multiple petitioners highlighted unprecedented global backing for the kingdom’s sovereignty proposal. The committee heard a testimony emphasizing that 124 countries now support the Moroccan autonomy plan as the pathway to regional […]
Ahead of the upcoming vote on a new UN Security Council resolution concerning the Sahara issue, Secretary-General António Guterres has released his latest report on the situation urging the extension of the UN mission’s mandate in the territory and echoing many of the themes from previous years, while underscoring a notable international shift towards backing […]
Morocco has urged again the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to end the five-decade humanitarian crisis suffered by the sequestered populations in the Polisario-controled Tindouf camps, southern Algeria. Addressing the UNHCR’s 76th Executive Committee session, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Omar Zniber urged the UN agency to conduct an “independent and […]
The Algerian regime propaganda has been desperately spreading rumors casting doubts over the 2025 African Nations Cup planned in Morocco over the youth-led demonstrations. But President of the Confederation of African Football Patrice Motsepe has shattered all Algerian schemes and dreams. In a press statement released Monday in Rabat, CAF Chief said: “Our position is […]
While the Moroccan youth are peacefully rallying in sit in demanding better health and education, Algerian mouthpiece media and officials are inciting for violence, hoping the unrest that rattled many Moroccan towns last week would grow bigger. The Algerian regime’s wishful thinking has no limits. State propagandists attempted to portray the demands for better public […]
Nearly half of the Algerian population are under 30. They are unemployed, oppressed, and frustrated. And despite massive security clampdown, youth-led demonstrations continue to spread this weekend to several cities amid reports of thousands participating in marches and violent clashes between the demonstrators and the police. The demonstrations are organized by “Gen-Z 213” movement through […]
A cultural conference meant to celebrate Algerian-Lebanese ties took a dramatic turn on September 23 when Algeria’s ambassador to Lebanon, Kamel Bouchama, launched into a controversial and inflammatory speech that included personal insults directed at US President Donald Trump. The remarks, widely condemned as undiplomatic and inappropriate, have triggered embarrassment in Beirut, concern in Washington, […]
In a measured yet firm response, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, debunked the narrative of the Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf regarding the Sahara issue, during the general debate of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. Hilale began by recalling that the inclusion of the Sahara issue on the UN […]
The United States has recognized the Sahara as an integral and indivisible part of Morocco in 2020. America has also supported the Autonomy plan offered for the territory under Moroccan sovereignty as the only feasible solution to the Sahara conflict. But the Algerian military regime, which has been arming, sheltering and funding the separatist Polisario […]
Mali’s Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga publicly accused Algeria of supporting and exporting terrorism during his address to the 80th United Nations General Assembly, drawing sharp international attention to Algeria’s hostile acts towards its neighbors. Addressing world leaders, Maïga denounced Algeria as a “champion of the promotion of terrorism and an exporter of terrorism,” saying that […]