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King Mohammed VI has spoken out against the phenomenon of street children, which is sparing no city in Africa, pointing out that condoning such a phenomenon is an insult to our own humanity. “To accept – through denial, capitulation or indifference – that children be abandoned to the street amounts to condoning, on a daily […]
Morocco, which is located only 8.6 miles (14 Km) away from Spain, is facing a growing number of migrants from around Africa attempting to cross to Europe from its Northern coasts. Moroccan authorities have foiled 68,000 illegal migration attempts and dismantled 122 human trafficking networks since 2002, said on Thursday Junior Interior Minister Noureddine Boutayeb […]
Algeria has been slammed for summary expulsions of more than 37,000 migrants in the desert border with Niger between 2014 and 2018. Algeria’s interior ministry confirmed the figure but claimed that the abandoned migrants were displaced to the border by virtue of an agreement with Niger’s authorities. Human rights groups however hold Algeria responsible for […]
Morocco and Senegal have expressed their strong determination to work hand in hand to ensure the success of the Triple S Initiative (Sustainability, Stability and Security) in Africa. The two countries’ shared willingness was voiced lately at a meeting held in Addis Ababa by Head of Moroccan Govt Sâad Eddine El Othmani and Senegalese Minister […]
A plane of the Algerian airline carrying head of the Polisario separatist group, Barhim Ghali, was left waiting for long in Addis Ababa airport where no one came to welcome the President of the self-declared republic. No African Union or Ethiopian official came to receive the separatist leader who arrived in Addis Ababa to attend […]
The African Union on Wednesday called for a sanction regime against member states that would fail to make their annual financial contributions. African Union Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat announced the new measure in a speech at the 20th Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, focused on the continental reform agenda, […]
About 3000 officials are expected to attend the 8th edition of the Africities Summit in Morocco next week. The Summit will take place from November 20–24, 2018 in Marrakesh, under the theme: “The transition to sustainable cities and territories: The role of local and regional governments in Africa.” According to the organizers, this forum will […]
Moroccan Attijariwafa Bank group, which is already present in North Africa and West Africa, is planning to set foot in East Africa through new acquisitions to be launched by the end of 2019, announced Youssef Rouissi, the bank’s deputy general manager. Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of an investment conference in Johannesburg, Rouissi , […]
Moroccan Energy and Mines Minister Aziz Rabbah has dismissed reports claiming a halt in the Moroccan-Nigerian gas pipeline saying that studies are ongoing and that West African states welcome the project. The project was launched by Morocco and Nigeria in 2016 with feasibility studies already underway. “Studies relating to the Morocco-Nigeria pipeline are underway,” said […]
King Mohammed VI has underlined the constructive initiatives made by Morocco for the resolution of the regional Sahara issue, stressing the country’s positive reaction to various international calls for practical proposals that can help achieve a realistic and lasting political settlement based on compromise and on the Autonomy Initiative. In a speech he made on […]