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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, […]
The Government of Guatemala has lauded the Autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara regional conflict, saying the plan offers a realistic and credible solution respecting the Kingdom’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty. The supportive stand was voiced Tuesday in Rabat by Deputy Foreign Minister of this Central American country […]
“Belgium deems the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, presented in 2007, to be a serious and credible effort by Morocco and a very good basis for a solution accepted by all parties”, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Quintin, said during a press briefing following talks, on Wednesday in Rabat, with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. Talks […]
Algeria under the new duo Tebboune-Chengriha hatched a plot to use its diaspora to blackmail and pressure France, according to an intelligence report cited by French media. The near 2.6 Algerians in France have been targeted with an Algerian propaganda plot which helped recruit influencers and members of the diaspora posing a serious destabilization risk […]
The fall of the bloody authoritarian Assad regime has uncovered the depth of relations between the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist group and Iran, with Syria acting as the intermediary, said a report published by the Washington-based think-tank Atlantic Council. Amid the chaos following the fall of Damascus, documents emerged showing correspondence between the Syrian Ministry of […]
Morocco has sounded the alarm on the nexus between separatism and terrorism, making reference to the Algeria-backed Polisario armed militia which has ties with terrorist groups threatening regional peace and stability. Speaking during a debate held at UN Security Council this week, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to UN Omar Hilale warned against the alliance between separatist […]
The Chilean Senate has extended unanimous support to the Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara, put forward by Morocco in 2007 to resolve the dispute over its southern provinces. The Chilean Senate unanimously adopted a resolution in which it “expresses its support for the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara region, which […]