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The Spanish government has hailed UN Security Council resolution 2797 endorsing Moroccan Autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under the Kingdom’s sovereignty. In a statement adopted following the 13th High-Level Moroccan-Spanish Meeting, held in Madrid, Spain reaffirmed its position expressed in the Joint Declaration of April 7, 2022, and welcomed the latest UN development on […]
Morocco and the United States are stepping up diplomatic coordination and concertation, building on the latest historic UN Security Council resolution endorsing the Moroccan autonomy in the Sahara under the Kingdom’s sovereignty. Foreign minister Nasser Bourita received in Rabat new U.S. ambassador to Morocco Richard Duke Buchan III who presented copies of his credentials to […]
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has once again reached for deflection tactics in the face of Algeria’s growing diplomatic isolation after its Sahara fiasco, economic woes, and fragile social peace. In this context of failing domestic policies, Tebboune held an international conference on “colonial crimes in Africa.” It’s a move designed to stir nationalist sentiment and redirect […]
The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Algerian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release veteran columnist Saad Bouakba, who was arrested on November 27 for comments on independence war. He is facing charges of defaming late President Ahmed Ben Bella. Bouakba was arrested in Algiers after Mahdia Ben Bella, daughter of Algeria’s first […]
Algeria’s President Tebboune has sought to play down the dire financial and monetary conditions in the country as the currency plunged to a historic low, trading at 290 dinars per euro on the informal market. This collapse signals a deeper structural crisis in an economy crippled by hydrocarbon dependency, corruption, and chronic mismanagement. The dinar’s […]
Burkina Faso and Niger have welcomed the adoption by the historic UN Security Council of Resolution 2797, which enshrines, within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan as a serious, credible, and lasting basis for achieving a solution to the Sahara issue. This welcome was expressed by the two countries’ Foreign Ministers, Karamoko […]
The adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2797 marks not only a diplomatic milestone but also enshrines the “centrality, legitimacy and relevance” of Morocco’s autonomy plan as the ultimate solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara, Morocco’s Ambassador to Washington, Youssef Amrani, told the US Think Tank Hudson Institute. This “historic resolution” provides “unambiguous […]
Algeria’s regime is doubling down on its hostile agenda against Morocco, scrambling to regain diplomatic ground after a historic UN Security Council resolution endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan as the sole basis for resolving the Sahara dispute. Cornered by international legality, Algiers is now attempting to force its way back onto the African stage by exploiting […]
Mauritanian tribal leaders have handed over to Mauritania’s ambassador to Morocco Ahmed Ould Bahi a letter requesting the opening of a Mauritanian consulate in Laayoune to facilitate administrative services for Mauritanians living in the Moroccan southern provinces. The request of the Mauritanian notables was conveyed to their country’s diplomat during a meeting held lately at […]
Comoros President Azali Assoumani reiterated his country’s “unfailing” support for Morocco’s territorial integrity. UN Security Council Resolution 2797 backing autonomy plan for the Sahara under Morocco’s sovereignty was a “shared victory” between Rabat and Moroni, President Assoumani told le360 on the sidelines of the MEDays forum in Tangiers. “We are proud to have been among […]