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Signing the “No to Trump” Petition Might be Costly for the Polisario

The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]

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More fires now burning in Central Africa than in the Amazon—NASA

Blazes burning in the Amazon over the last weeks have prompted a global outcry. However, according to satellite data released by NASA about fires around the world, the central Africa region is the most affected region. Over a period of two days last week, Angola had roughly three times more fires than Brazil, according to […]

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Ivanka Trump Praises Moroccan Efforts in Ensuring Equality in Inheritance between women & men

Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to US President Donald Trump, has praised Morocco’s efforts to ensure equality between women and men in terms of inheritance. “We applaud the Moroccan government for this important step towards the adoption of inheritance law amendments, and look forward to supporting their full implementation,” Ivanka Trump said on her twitter […]

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Spain among Western countries opposing establishment of a new state in North Africa

Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz had then revealed that Western countries simply do not want the establishment […]

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Togo to be pilot country for Trump’s Prosper Africa – Official

The US “Prosper Africa” program, designed by the Trump Administration, to replace the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), would be operational by 2025.   Prosper Africa aligns with the Trump administration’s Africa strategy, introduced by National Security Adviser John Bolton last December. It aims to promote prosperity, security, and stability in US-Africa relations, and […]

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NGOs, Politicians denounce Polisario’s arbitrary detention of Sahrawi activists

Several NGOs and politicians have joined the families of the three Sahrawi activists arbitrarily detained by the Polisario since last June.   In this connection, the Sahrawi Khat Shahid movement “the Line of the Martyr” addressed a letter to the United Nations, urging the world body to intervene to end Polisario’s violations and arbitrary detention […]

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Non-settlement of Sahara issue, a threat for peace & stability in Sahara-Sahel region -WSJ

The non-settlement of the Sahara issue poses a threat for peace and stability in the Sahara-Sahel region and US policymakers are fully aware of the urgency to settle the regional conflict, notes the Wall Street Journal in a long article published Sunday. The Polisario is a Marxist group linked to regional terrorism, so settling the […]

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Sahara: Washington will not support a plan leading to a new African nation – WSJ

The United States made it clear that independence is not an option for settling the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, writes the US widely-circulated daily, The Wall Street Journal. In a story by its special envoy Dion Nissenbaum published Sunday, the US daily notes that US officials who are closely following discussions on the Sahara […]

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American Airlines chooses Casablanca as first entry point to Africa

US carrier, American Airlines, will launch its first US-Africa route with Casablanca as its first entry point on the African continent. The first flight is scheduled for June 4, 2020. The airline in a statement said it will operate three weekly flights from its Philadelphia hub to Mohammed V Casablanca international airport.   Though operations […]

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Washington not ready to remove Sudan from sponsors of terrorism list

Despite the recent efforts to restore democratic process in Sudan, the United States said it still needs to resolve long-standing issues with Sudan before it can consider removing the East African nation from its list of states sponsors of terrorism.   “There’s a number of things we’re (United States) looking forward to engaging with a […]