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The Network of Elected Women (REFELA) seeks to make of the campaign “African Cities without Street Children” launched at the 8th Africities Summit held in Marrakesh in November 2018 a world campaign. The issue was brought up during the statutory meetings of the United Cities Local governments, UCLG Africa, held prior to the UCLG World […]
The Spanish government has urged again the European Union to increase the funding it grants to Morocco to help the kingdom in its fight against irregular migration. Morocco must be endowed with sufficient resources to deal with illegal immigration, insisted the acting president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez, during a joint press conference, Thursday […]
Mayor of the city of Al Hoceima and President of the Moroccan Association of Presidents of Municipal Councils (AMPCC), Mohamed Boudra, was picked as Africa’s candidate for the presidency of the United Cities Local Governments (UCGL) for the 2019-2022 period. The designation of Boudra, who is Vice president of UCLG Africa for the North Africa […]
Human Rights Watch has called on the Algerian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally the peaceful activists and respect the rights to free speech and assembly of all Algerians. “This spate of arrests looks like part of a pattern of trying to weaken opposition to Algeria’s interim rulers and their determination to hold presidential elections […]
Benabderrahmane Aymane was appointed Governor of the Bank of Algeria, in replacement of Ammar Haiwani who was acting Central Bank Governor since April 2019. The announcement was made by the presidency in a statement. The Bank of Algeria recently made the headlines after issuing a note, ordering banks to require their customers to provide proof […]
Morocco, one of the major international players in counterterrorism, took part in the extraordinary meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS held Thursday in Washington to discuss next steps in the joint campaign to degrade and defeat ISIS. The gathering, which was opened by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, comes following the death of […]
The polisario leaders were sensing a change in the stand of Mauritania regarding the Sahara regional conflict, before the new President, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, took over. The fears of the separatists, who currently feel abandoned, were confirmed following the remarks made lately by Mauritania’s top diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. At a press […]
Othman Benjelloun and his wife Leila Mezian Benjelloun, co-chairs of the BMCE Bank Foundation, were granted the “Visionary Award” bestowed by the Washington-based Middle East Institute to individuals or organizations in recognition for their outstanding work in the region. Othman Benjelloun, founder of the BMCE Bank Foundation, and his wife, Leila Mezian Benjelloun, President of […]
When Morocco retrieved the southern provinces from the yoke of Spanish colonialism, Laayoune was a smaller town lacking basic infrastructure and services like other cities in the Sahara. Now it has become a vibrant city topping the national average in terms of human development and well-being as the region enjoys the lowest poverty rates in […]
Senegal’s President Macky Sall lauded King Mohammed VI for his continental leadership and farsightedness describing him as a “champion of African unity.” Makky Sall, who is on a visit in Tangier to attend the Medays forum, said the Moroccan monarch is a “champion of inter-African cooperation” citing the King’s leading role in promoting the continent’s […]