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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised, Friday in Tangier, the efforts of Morocco and Project Aladdin in building bridges between cultures and fighting racism and fanaticism. In a video message broadcast during the inaugural session of the Tangier Dialogue, organized by the Aladdin project in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and […]
The 193-member UN General Assembly held elections Thursday to elect five new non-permanent members of the Security Council. Japan, Mozambique, Ecuador, Malta and Switzerland were thus elected to replace the members whose terms expire Dec. 31. The newly elected will serve as non-permanent members of UN Security Council from 2023 – 2024. The new members […]
‘Algeria once had 140,000 Jews. Algeria, where are your Jews?’ The question was raised by Hillel Neuer – an outspoken defender of Israel and frequent critic of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Neuer’s query was met with silence. The primary reason for the departure of Algerian Jews is, of course, that some 850,000 […]
The African Lion military exercise 2022, a major US-led multi-national joint exercise planned in Morocco starting June 20, is making Algerian junta hedgy and extremely nervous. To give vent to their frustrations, growing anxiety and setbacks, Algerian Army chief General Said Chanegriha and his corrupt geriatric Generals have carried air-land manoeuvres with live ammunition in […]
As part of the Global Military Cooperation Plan and in preparation for the African Lion 2022 exercise, the academic cycle of training for this year’s exercise was launched this Monday, June 06, 2022 for the benefit of FAR and multinational personnel. This activity, scheduled punctually at the level of the Staff of the South Zone […]
Some 30 Moroccan Customs officers are currently benefiting from an American training against the smuggling of dangerous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials. The announcement was made Friday by the U.S. embassy in Rabat on its facebook page. The training is conducted at Morocco’s Customs Institute in Benslimane by four U.S. specialists – including a […]
Morocco is among countries which have made last year “notable progress” in religious freedom, said on Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Commenting the “2021 International Religious Freedom Report”, released by the State Department, Mr. Blinken said this year’s report includes several countries where we see notable progress, thanks to the work of governments, […]
Tunisia will send to the US remains of American soldiers who perished in the North African country during the Second World War. This came following an agreement between the two countries that was signed Tuesday. Tunisian top diplomat Othman Jerandi inked the Memorandum of Understanding with Natacha Franceschi, the Chargée d’Affaires of the US embassy […]
A group of Peruvian MPs have called on their country’s government and left-wing President Pedro Castillo to withdraw recognition of the Polisario’s self-proclaimed “SADR” and to cut ties with a phantom entity not recognized by the United Nations. The call was made during a meeting of the Congress’s foreign relations Committee held lately in the […]
King Mohammed VI has sent a message of condolences and compassion to the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, following the shooting at an elementary school in Texas, in which several innocent students were killed. In these painful circumstances, the Sovereign expresses to the U.S. President, to the bereaved families and to […]