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The 2025 ranking of African banks by Tier 1 capital confirms a well-established continental hierarchy, with South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Nigeria dominating the top positions. Tunisia was absent. According to the latest data, the threshold for inclusion in the Top 20 now stands at approximately $2 billion in Tier 1 capital. Tunisia’s largest […]
The Algerian regime has suffered another diplomatic setback after failing to infiltrate uninvited Polisario agents into the Arab-African youth conference held lately in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Thanks to the mobilization of Moroccan youth delegation and participating countries, the organizers refused the participation of Polisario separatists who were hoping to sneak into the conference using the […]
The United States is forging ahead with a bold strategy to encourage private investment in Morocco’s southern provinces, a move that starkly contrasts with the European Union’s fragmented stance, a Carnegie Endowment For International Peace analyst said. While Washington seeks tangible economic returns and a clear diplomatic signal, Brussels remains entangled in internal divisions over […]
Several security sources have reported the presence of foreign military advisers in the Polisario camps in Tindouf, Algeria, as well as in other secret Algerian military bases. According to these sources, quoted by the Paris-based news outlet Sahel Intelligence, the foreigners include instructors linked to networks close to Hamas and Iranian advisers operating in the […]
King Mohammed VI, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and Prince Moulay Rachid, on Friday delivered a speech to the Parliament at the opening of the first session of the fifth legislative year of the 11th Legislature. Here follows the full text of the Royal speech: “Praise be to God. May peace and blessings […]
A growing number of Polisario members is challenging the decades-long obstinacy of the Algeria-backed Polisario militias, urging the international community to embrace Morocco’s autonomy proposal as a path toward peace and dignity. In a striking intervention before the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, representatives of an NGO called Sahrawis for Peace, which brings together former […]
International momentum behind Morocco’s autonomy initiative for the Sahara region gained prominent display at the United Nations Fourth Committee meeting in New York, where multiple petitioners highlighted unprecedented global backing for the kingdom’s sovereignty proposal. The committee heard a testimony emphasizing that 124 countries now support the Moroccan autonomy plan as the pathway to regional […]
More than 300 Moroccan and French business leaders are set to gather in Dakhla on October 9 for the Morocco-France Economic Forum, a high-level event aimed at deepening bilateral partnerships and exploring new opportunities in strategic sectors such as energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness. Organized jointly by the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM) and the […]
Ahead of the upcoming vote on a new UN Security Council resolution concerning the Sahara issue, Secretary-General António Guterres has released his latest report on the situation urging the extension of the UN mission’s mandate in the territory and echoing many of the themes from previous years, while underscoring a notable international shift towards backing […]
Morocco has urged again the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to end the five-decade humanitarian crisis suffered by the sequestered populations in the Polisario-controled Tindouf camps, southern Algeria. Addressing the UNHCR’s 76th Executive Committee session, Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, Omar Zniber urged the UN agency to conduct an “independent and […]