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Morocco affirmed, Tuesday in Addis Ababa, before the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union its support for the AU Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), while reiterating the primacy of the United Nations Security Council in maintaining international peace and security. This came during the PSC meeting devoted to the financing of ATMIS […]
The National Council for Human Rights (CNDH) held, Monday in Rabat, an interactive meeting on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and on the prospects for strengthening interaction with the African human rights system. This meeting aimed to highlight efforts to ratify the African Charter on Human Rights and identify opportunities and obligations […]
Tunisia Monday submitted its candidacy to host the new headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), several days after Egypt expressed willingness to provide a venue for the construction of the agency’s continental office. Tunisia’s Minister of Health Ali M’rabet made the offer as he received Aggrey John Douglas Ambali, an African Union (AU) official […]
The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) announced last week that it had opened an investigation into “allegations of serious human rights violations” during an anti-terrorist operation launched by Malian armed forces in the Moura region in central Mali. MINUSMA said in a statement that it has formally opened an investigation since […]
Libya’s oil and gas Minister Mohammed Aoun has criticized western proposals to create an international mechanism to manage the country’s oil revenues amid rivalries between the ousted government of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and incoming Premier Fathi Bashagha. Aoun, who is under Dbeibeh’s leadership, made the remarks in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. […]
Thales has opened a new Cyber-Security Operations Center (SOC) in Morocco. This center will provide real-time protection against cyber-attacks in the country and across the African continent as a whole. “Thales is strengthening its expertise and know-how in the field of cybersecurity in Morocco. The launch of this new SOC demonstrates the Group’s aspirations to […]
Morocco has ratified the treaty establishing the African Medicines Agency (AMA), stemming from the African Union, during a ceremony, Tuesday, at the headquarters of the pan-African organization in Addis Ababa. The treaty is meant to strengthen the capacity of African countries to regulate medicines in order to improve access to good quality, safe and effective […]
An increasing number of former Polisario members are fleeing the camps where they are forced to stay in southern Algeria as they see a dead-end for a separatist scheme amid rising support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and its autonomy initiative for the region. Moroccan media, Le360, talked to a new group of Polisario members who […]
Members of the UN Security Council will convene this month for a briefing on the Sahara issue. The Security Council’s monthly forecast for April indicates that both the Special Representative for the Sahara and head of MINURSO, Russian Alexander Ivanko, and the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Staffan de Mistura will brief the […]
Prince Albert II of Monaco paid, on Friday afternoon, a visit to the emblematic space of Bayt Dakira in Essaouira, a highly spiritual and patrimonial place for the preservation and promotion of the Jewish-Moroccan memory. Exhaustive explanations were given to the Monegasque Sovereign who is on a private visit in Essaouira by André Azoulay, Advisor […]