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Human rights activists have launched an urgent appeal on the United Nations to lift the blockade on the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria and allow access to the camps, which are witnessing an unprecedented deterioration of human rights conditions, as reported by several international organizations. On the sidelines of the 56th session of the Human […]
A group of Canadian nationals originating from the restive and independence seeking Kabylie complained of harassment by Algerian intelligence and consular services in the country, Radio Canada reported. Kabylie is an Amazigh speaking breakaway region in northern Algeria which has a government in exile led by Ferhat Mhenni. Members of the region’s independence movement, known […]
The growing international community’s support for Morocco’s Autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, marks a milestone for Moroccan diplomacy in addressing the long-standing Sahara regional conflict, says Modern Diplomacy magazine in its latest issue. In an Op-Ed titled:”The Autonomy Plan: Is it the Endgame for the Moroccan Sahara?”, scholar Jamal Ait Laadam […]
Trade continues to steeply decline between the two Maghreb heavyweights, Morocco and Algeria. Trade between the two nations dropped to just 130 million dollars last year, from 690 million dollars in 2021, which was also a small figure considering the potential of the two countries. The very sparse trade- already reeling due to Algeria’s support […]
At the UN C24 forum, Morocco has received steady support in recent years despite Algeria’s attempt to use the UN forum to serve its separatist agenda in southern Morocco, or the Sahara. Morocco was the first to list the Sahara issue in the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization, known as C24, in 1975 when it […]
Morocco’s tangible efforts to put an end to the artificial conflict over the Sahara were hailed by participants in a round table held on Friday in London by the British think tank The Royal United Service Institute (RUSI). The event, held under the theme “Resolving the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara: a Moroccan-British perspective,” was […]
Madagascar welcomes the serious and credible efforts made by Morocco to move forward towards resolving the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara and hails King Mohammed VI’s initiatives to promote peace, stability, and shared prosperity in the African continent. This position was expressed in a joint communiqué issued following talks held Friday in Rabat between Malagasy […]
Algeria’s desperate resort to three mercenaries, traitors to their country, as so-called petitioners to talk not about the Moroccan Sahara, but to call for violence and attack the sacred institutions of the Kingdom, reflects the very failure of the Algerian regime’s separatist scheme in Morocco. The remarks were made by Morocco’s permanent representative to the […]
Algeria’s diplomacy refuses to look in the mirror as it continues to suffer setbacks in support of a Polisario separatist militia that has become a real liability for the military rulers in Algiers. Algeria’s erratic diplomacy has reaped but defeats as the number of Polisario supporters has diminished to be limited to a handful of […]
Slovenia’s foreign minister Mrs. Tanja Fajon has voiced her country’s strong support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, saying the plan is “a good basis for reaching a final and consensual solution.” In a joint statement issued in Rabat following her talks held Tuesday with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, the […]