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Embarrassed by a growing surge of anti-migrant sentiment and in need of workers in farming and construction, Algeria is rushing to save its face with the launch of an operation to grant residency rights and job permits to illegal African migrants. The migrant regularization plan was announced by Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune in response […]
Morocco has received approval for a $25 million loan from the Climate Investment Funds’ Clean Technology Fund (CIF CTF) for a project to generate solar power through an innovative hybrid Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Photovoltaic (PV) solution. he Midelt Phase I Concentrated Solar Power Project is being supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) […]
King Mohammed VI, as the leader who, at the 28th AU Summit, was put in charge of the question of migration, has submitted a paper to the AU’s presidency, laying out a common African Vision on migration and the related stakes and challenges. The document, entitled “Vision for an African Agenda for Migration”, was presented […]
The predictions of the advocates of separatism in the Sahara were true. Their worst fears that Morocco’s return to the African Union will block their plots to propagate the chimera of an independent Sahara state were vindicated. The first participation of Morocco at an African Union Summit in over three decades proved that the Kingdom […]
The Libyan navy has claimed that the country’s sovereignty is being jeopardized by international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) that are helping illegal migrants trying to reach Europe through Italy from the Libyan shores. Spokesman Ayoub Qassim of the Libyan navy pointed out that “the humanitarian NGOs are blocking any agreements that help Libya uproot immigration issues; […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has stressed the important role the African youth can play for the socioeconomic development of the continent, which needs to rise up to the challenges ahead by mobilizing all its resources and assets. In a speech, read out Monday in Addis Ababa by the King’s brother Prince Moulay Rachid at […]
King Mohammed VI made the case, in a speech to the African Union leaders, for the emergence of a “New Africa” that is able to turn its youth potential and the institutional challenges it faces into development opportunities. In the speech, read out by the King’s brother Prince Moulay Rachid at the 29th African Union […]
Prince Moulay Rachid, the brother of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, takes part in the 29th Summit of the African Union (AU), which opened this July 3 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme: “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in the Youth”. The participation of Morocco in this African summit is of great importance […]
Gone is the era when Separatist proponents took advantage of Morocco’s absence from the African Union to plot against Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara. The recently found and deserved membership of the African Union offered Morocco a podium to outspokenly voice its legitimate stands and block attempts by the adversaries of its territorial integrity, led […]
Algeria’s Industry Minister Bedda Mahjoub expressed frustration at his country’s policy of attracting car assembly plants and threatened to close these factories due to their low integration rates. “We should put an end to the production model as most manufacturers have not improved their integration rates, he told the press after speaking to MPs. While […]