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The American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed the US decision to recognize and back Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. This recognition was “long-awaited, eminently sound and deserves continued support,” wrote the committee’s Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer, Jason Isaacson, in a comment posted on the AJC website and published by the US magazine Newsweek. After […]
France, an ally and a historic strategic partner of Morocco, must be part of the dynamic prompted by the US recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara, said on Thursday Benjamin Griveaux, member of the French National Assembly and co-founder of La République en Marche, the Presidential majority party. The United States’ has recently […]
Algeria’s oil and gas rich south is a tinderbox waiting to explode! The youth in Ouargla and many other cities took to the street, torched tires and blocked roads in violent protests after their calls for jobs and better living conditions fell on deaf regime ears. Unrest is not new to Ouargla where the population […]
Opening a French Consulate and cultural center in the Moroccan Saharan city of Dakhla is what French MP M’Jid El Guerrab is pushing for, following the American recognition of Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara and US decision to install a consulate in the Sahara city. In his capacity as an elected MP […]
Moroccan Foreign Minister has uncovered the contradiction in the Algerian position regarding the Sahara issue, citing a hostile campaign by all state apparatus in Algeria in support of the Polisario while at the same time claiming to be an observing country. Algeria has once again demonstrated that it is the real party to the Sahara […]
The prestigious Washington Institute for Near East Policy has called on the Biden administration to support American recognition of Morocco’s full sovereign over its entire Sahara territory, affirming that such recognition serves US geostrategic interests in the region. In a report titled: “Seizing Opportunities and Strengthening Alliances in North West Africa: Ideas for Policy Toward […]
Former US deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams has hailed the “sound” and bold decision made by ex-president Donald Trump who signed in December 2020, a historic proclamation recognizing Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara territory. In an Op-ed published Wednesday in the prestigious American bi-monthly magazine “National Review”, Mr. Elliott said “Trump got […]
Moncef Marzouki, first President of post-Arab Spring Tunisia, made headlines again by accusing Algeria of standing in the way of the Jasmin Revolution against Ben Ali’s regime. “Algerian authorities fought the Tunisian revolution to which they showed hostility in its first years,” Marzouki told Al Khaleej TV. Marzouki added that he met former […]
Hundreds of Algerians have been staging demonstrations for several consecutive days in different provinces against hard life conditions compounded by the pandemic. The protests commenced Jan.30 in Laghouat, in Laghouat province, as demonstrators laid into authorities denouncing lack of proper housing and jobs and demanding better life conditions. The protests spilled over to Jijel, far […]
Algerian activist Oualid Kébir has stressed that Algeria’s support for a separatist movement against a neighboring country is a “great sin” and that such a support “serves colonial agendas”. In an open letter to the president of Algerian “El Bina” movement Abdelkader Bengrina, in reaction to a publication on the Treaty of friendship, neighborliness and […]