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Morocco’s Royal Navy and Air Forces are participating with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group in a maritime exercise aimed at enhancing their joint interoperability to advance US-Morocco interests, security and stability in Europe and Africa. Code-named “Lightning Handshake”, the exercise, which is taking place during this first week of March, includes several […]
Since he assumed power in January, US President Joe Biden has received several letters from politicians, MPs, elected representatives, and civil society activists from the United States, Europe, Africa and Latin American, expressing backing to the US recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara and underscoring that the resolution of the Sahara conflict will ensure […]
The undivided map of Morocco, including the Sahara provinces, continues to be officially adopted by US authorities and international bodies since the US recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara on dec.10, 2020. After the US Department of State, the Pentagon, the CIA and NATO, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has also displayed […]
Joining their voice to that of politicians and elected representatives from Africa, Europe and Latin American, civil society activists have also stressed the importance of supporting the Moroccan autonomy initiative as a serious, credible and objective mechanism and as the only basis to achieve a just and lasting solution to the artificial conflict over the […]
Some 250 political leaders and elected officials from 25 countries in Europe and Latin America have addressed a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their support to the U.S. decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara and to open a consulate in Dakhla. “Mr. President, We, former heads of government, former ministers, elected officials, […]
The CIA has depicted in a confidential report a bleak picture of the situation in Algeria rattled by political inertia, clans’ internal fights, the regime’s failures and contradictions, an unpopular and uncharismatic president, and a deep economic crisis which exacerbates popular discontent and warned that Algeria would face a general conflagration in the medium term, […]
The stand of the United States on Moroccan Sahara remains unchanged despite the heavy pressure exerted by pro-polisario lobbyists paid by Algeria to push the Biden administration to reverse its predecessor’s recognition of Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara territory. But all the hostile campaign fueled by Algeria’s military junta was deflated on Monday […]
Morocco’s police in Tangier-Med port, in collaboration with the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) thwarted on Thursday an international trafficking operation of psychotropic drugs. The police operating in the port seized 490,000 psychotropic tablets bearing “Tafradol” tags, said the General Directorate of National Security (DSGN) in a statement. The operation was conducted in the frame […]
American political scientist, Robert Satloff, a reference in Arab-Muslim world policy and US policy in the Middle East, expressed his strong disagreement with the approach by Republican senator and fervent defender of the Polisario Jim Inhofe, who urged President Joe Biden to reconsider the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. “I think this is […]
Moroccan director Ahmed El Maanouni’s film “Transes” (Al Hal, 1981), which recounts the stage performances of Moroccan mythic musician group Nass El Ghiwane, is among the new releases to be available soon on “The Criterion Collection” platform, an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing “important classic and contemporary films.” “The groundbreaking […]