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The levels of coordination between Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and the United Nations Mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) were described as exceptional in the operational, security, demining, and logistic support fields. This came during a meeting between FAR Inspector General and Commander of the South Zone, Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid, and Force Commander of […]
A group of archaeologists discovered the Maghreb’s first pre-Phoenician settlement, where they found evidence of a bronze age village that challenges assumptions about the region’s history. The archaeologists, led by Hamza Benattia from the University of Barcelona, made the excavations in Kach Kouch, in the northern Oued Laou valley near the Strait of Gibraltar. The […]
The Algerian beleaguered regime has crossed a new line in abomination in its repressive measures against all dissenting voices. Its latest absurdity showed when it demanded that French writer Boualem Sansal, jailed since November, changes his lawyer by a “non-Jewish” attorney. This outrageous blackmail illustrates, if need be, the reckless drift of the current government. […]
French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, announced on Monday in Laayoune the establishment of a French Alliance in the city, aiming to boost cultural cooperation between France and Morocco, particularly in the southern provinces. “We want this Alliance to become a resource center and a key hub for cultural cooperation between France and Morocco,” Dati […]
The President has been deployed himself at what appears as a life or death election for the position of “deputy” African Union commission chairperson, which was won by Algerian diplomat Selma Malika Haddadi. The Algerian large delegation- which came to campaign for their candidate equipped with lavished leather bags- burst out in jubilation in the […]
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown and Inspector General of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces & Commander of the Southern Zone Lt. Gen. Mohammed Berrid have reaffirmed commitment to advancing security cooperation activities between the two countries to improve security in the Sahel and Maghreb regions. During a phone conversation […]
Speaker of the French Senate Gérard Larcher will pay a four-day visit to Morocco starting Feb.23 at the invitation of Moroccan peer Mohamed Ould Errachid. During the trip, the French politician will visit Rabat and Laayoune, capital of the Moroccan Sahara, where he will meet local officials, notables, and elected officials of the region. According […]
French culture minister Rachida Dati will be paying a visit to Morocco on February 16-18, during which she will visit the Southern Provinces, the Sahara, where she will inaugurate a French cultural center in Laayoune. The center was promised after France backed Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, followed by a visit by French President Emmlanuel […]
Has the Algerian army lost control of the Polisario armed men? That is what many reports concluded following violent clashes last week between disenchanted Polisario youth involved in drug trafficking and the Algerian army. A tightening of the siege imposed by the Algerian army on the camps triggered armed clashes between members of the Polisario […]
The Algerian regime has blocked all attempts to bring closer the peoples of the Maghreb, former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki said. Algeria has stood against all Maghreb integration initiatives, Marzouki, who led Tunisia from 2011 to 2014, said in a recent interview. While in office, Marzouki has tried to bring the two Maghreban heavy weights, […]