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By holding a “Regional Retreat on Migration,” Morocco is spearheading initiatives aiming at reaching a paradigm change in how migration is tackled on the continent. The guiding line is to depart from the security approach in addressing migration issues in favor of a humanistic approach focusing on opportunities and common management. The event, held in […]
The newly-established G5-joint force, set up by Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger to combat terrorism and transnational organized crime and to promote stability and development in the region is gaining increasing support, given the challenges facing the restive region. While the European Union has already committed $56 million to the Sahel force, on […]
Niamey has had enough with Algeria’s ill treatment of Nigerien nationals, after 950 of them were summarily deported last week to Niger’s borders. As Algeria turns a deaf ear to the calls by international rights NGOs to halt the inhumane treatment of Sub-Saharan migrants, Niger’s Foreign Minisiter Ibrahim Yacoubou officially expressed his country’s concern over […]
Commemorating United Nations Day alongside UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, Secretary-General António Guterres paid tribute to the sacrifices made by uniformed personnel in the service of peace, including the Moroccan contingent, which lost some of its members in the line of duty. Guterres, who visited the Bangassou local base of the UN Multidimensional […]
Morocco has sent an emergency medical assistance to Madagascar to help the country cope with a pneumonia plague outbreak. The emergency medical aid granted by Morocco, at the instruction of King Mohammed VI following the outbreak of the pneumonia plague in the African country, was handed over to Malagasy authorities in Antananarivo airport on Tuesday, […]
The disgraceful statements uttered by Algeria’s Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel were received with outrage by Africa’s diplomatic corps in Rabat. Ambassador Nimaga Ismaila, Dean of the African diplomatic corps in Morocco, condemned, on behalf of African ambassadors in Rabat, such defamatory statements that lack flair and manners. Messahel claimed at a meeting with Algerian […]
Following the verbal blunders uttered by Algerian Foreign Minister, Abdelkader Messahel, who blatantly accused Moroccan banks of laundering cannabis money in Africa, the Professional Grouping of Moroccan Banks (GPBM) released a statement rejecting such accusations as “hateful and irresponsible”. The diatribe against Morocco that the Algerian Foreign Minister shamefully made during a meeting at the […]
Morocco is set to build on its moderate school of Islam as a bulwark against extremism conducive to pre-empting radicalism at home and abroad. To that end, the country has extended the project of the Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams to respond to the growing demand from a number of countries. Morocco’s […]
Cooperation between Morocco and Nigeria is stronger than ever. After sealing large scale agreements on gas and fertilizers, the two countries have expanded their cooperation to the military field after a team of Nigerian special forces received training in Morocco on counter-terrorism. The information was relayed by Nigeria’s news portal the Media Trust, which indicates […]
Morocco reiterated at the extraordinary meeting of the African Union (AU) Executive Council, held recently in Addis Abeba, that only sovereign states are entitled to take part in the EU-Africa Summit at a time separatist proponents are pushing in vain to impose the participation of the Polisario in the event. Morocco maintains that the format […]