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The autonomy plan presented by Morocco is a “serious and credible basis” for negotiations aimed at reaching a final political solution to the Sahara issue, said France on Tuesday. “It is important for the four delegations (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Polisario) to continue their discussions in a constructive spirit of compromise with a view to […]
The UN Security Council has lauded the new momentum given by the two roundtable meetings on the Sahara issue, held in Geneva at the initiative of the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy Horst Köhler, and commended Morocco’s serious commitment to the UN political process. In Resolution 2468, adopted Tuesday by 13 votes and 2 abstentions, […]
The UN Security Council decided on April 30 to extend the MINURSO mandate for six months, while it once again recognized the credibility of the Morocco-proposed autonomy initiative to settle the Sahara conflict. The Security Council “decides to extend the mandate of the MINURSO until 31 October 2019,” reads the text of resolution 2468. The […]
Morocco’s central bank, Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM) will hold its key policy rate at 2.25 pc in 2019 due to subdued inflation and a neutral shift in US Fed policy, says Fitch Solutions in its latest report on the North African Kingdom. In a bid to protect foreign exchange reserves and limit imported inflation, BAM will […]
The Libyan crisis has been at the focus of talks Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte held on Tuesday in Tunis with President Beji caid Essebssi as well as with his Tunisian peer Youssef Chahed. Giuseppe Conte, who is in Tunisia to take part in the 1st session of the Tunisian-Italian Higher Council of Strategic Partnership, voiced […]
Agentis, a Moroccan company with proven expertise in the field of health infrastructure and Medical equipment manufacturing, has won a $97 million contract in Côte D’Ivoire to build two regional hospitals. The contract signed last weekend in the West African nation concerns the construction and equipment of two Regional Hospitals in the cities of Aboisso […]
Mercenaries linked to Frontier Services Group, a security company based in Iraq and UAE, have been fighting on the side of military commander Khalifa Haftar whose forces have launched an offensive to seize the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Under a secret deal, Frontier Service Group, run by American Businessman Erik Prince, had recently flown private […]
The Paris-based Pan-African weekly magazine Jeune Afrique has nominated head of Morocco’s internal security among top 100 most influential Africans for the name the man made for himself in the fight against terrorism. Abdellatif Hammouchi, who also heads the kingdom’s powerful FBI-style Central Bureau of judiciary investigation (BCIJ), features in the ranking for his outstanding […]
It seems that the protest movement, which is rocking Algeria since February, has reached the southern region of the country, and particularly the Tindouf camps where the sequestered sahrawis are rising up against the Polisario militias, which are armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian military. In a bid to intimidate Sahrawi protesters, fed up […]
Tunis is hosting this April 29-30 the eighth Joint Retreat of the African Union Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) and the African Union Commission (AUC) in preparation of the first Coordination Summit between the African Union and the eight Regional Economic Communities scheduled to take place in Niamey, Niger in July. The meeting is focusing on […]