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President Macky Sall of Senegal has appointed Babou Sene as the country’s Consul General in Dakhla. The announcement of Babou Sene’s appointment as Consul General in Dakhla was made during the Council of Ministers held Wednesday in Dakar under the chairmanship of Macky Sall. The Senegalese Head of State also appointed during this Council Youssoupha […]
The Polisario terrorist and leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahrawi, was killed by French forces, President Emmanuel Macron announced early on Thursday in a tweet. “This is another major success in the fight we are waging against terrorist groups in the Sahel,” added the French Head of […]
The historic Abraham Accords show that “peace is possible”, said on Wednesday, US State Department Spokesman Ned Price. Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords at the White House in September of last year. The following month, Israel and Sudan normalized their relations. Morocco subsequently signed the US-brokered accords in a tripartite Israel-Morocco-US […]
Morocco’s University Hospital Center Ibn Sina of Rabat has agreed to exchange experience and foster partnership with University Teaching Hospital of Kigali and King Faisal Hospital located in Rwandan capital city. Under the 3-year partnership agreement inked in Kigali, the Moroccan university hospital pledged to share its know-how in hospital management, scientific research, training […]
The UN Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to extend the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until the end of the month. “The situation in Libya continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,” the Security Council said in its resolution of UNSMIL 15-day mandate extension. Both the US and Russia backed the […]
The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, ADFD, is set to finance the upgrading of a fishing port in Mauritania to boost the local industry. The ADFD’s funding, $7.9 million, will be used to renovate the Tanit Fishing Port including the building of an ice factory, the Gulf country’s state-run news agency WAM reported. The project, […]
King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), has appointed Lieutenant General Belkhir El Farouk as FAR inspector general, said the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery in a statement. Lieutenant General El Farouk will replace Inspector General Abdelfattah Louarrak at the top of […]
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, began, on Tuesday, consultations with members of the Security Council, in order to appoint Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura as his Personal Envoy for the Moroccan Sahara, MAP correspondent in New York learned from diplomatic sources. The information was confirmed to MAP by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN […]
French authorities on Tuesday expressed concern about the contingency of deploying paramilitaries of the private Russian company Wagner in Mali, warning that such a deployment could prompt the withdrawal of French troops, who have been fighting jihadist groups there for eight years. News surfaced that Bamako had been in talks with the Wagner company for […]
“A large-scale operation” was carried out by the special forces of the Tarek ben Ziyad Battalion, one of the units of the forces loyal to Marshal Khalifa Haftar, “against mercenaries and Chadian opposition elements present on Libyan territory,” Libya al-Hadath TV, the media arm of Marshal Haftar, said. “Their positions were targeted in Tarbu on […]