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Major Gen. Andrew Rohling, deputy commanding general of US Army Europe –Africa, and Gen. Belkhir El Farouk, Royal Armed Forces Southern Zone Commander met, on Thursday in Agadir, to discuss plans for conducting next year’s African Lion, the largest military training exercise on the continent, amidst the uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The high-ranking […]
The victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 US presidential election has prompted a deep concern within the Polisario top leadership due to the “close and excellent ties” existing between Morocco and the US democrat party, according to a Spanish-speaking website close to the Algeria-backed separatist group. It is “under the Obama administration that […]
The United States is considering the acquisition of a property in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for the return of US full mission capacity to the North African country. The announcement came during a meeting between US diplomat to Libya Richard Norland and Mohammed Sayala, the Foreign Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA). […]
The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Kingdom of Morocco announced the postponement of the Marrakech annual meetings for a year until October 2022 The annual meetings are usually held for two consecutive years at the World Bank and IMF headquarters in Washington, and then in a member country every third year. […]
France expressed, on Friday, its concern about “the current obstruction situation” caused by the Polisario and its militias in the buffer zone of Guerguarat, warning that such a situation is likely to create tensions that would undermine the political process aimed at reaching a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara. “France […]
The United States reaffirmed on Friday, following the adoption of UN Security Council resolution N° 2548 on the Moroccan Sahara, that the Moroccan autonomy initiative is “serious, credible and realistic” for the settlement of this regional dispute. “We consider the Moroccan autonomy plan as serious, credible and realistic, and it represents a potential approach to […]
Bombardier announced this week it has reached amended definitive agreement to sell its aerostructures business in Casablanca, Belfast, and Dallas to Spirit AeroSystems Holding Inc. of Wichita, Kansas. The initial purchase agreement between the two companies was announced in October 2019 for a cash consideration of $500 million, plus the assumption of liabilities with a […]
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro highlighted the “strategic” character and regular political consultations between his country and Morocco noting the closer political consultations. Speaking at an economic forum bringing together Brazil and Arab countries, Bolsonaro stressed the key role played by Morocco in promoting Brazil’s agriculture citing that the north African Kingdom remains the main supplier […]
Following the dissemination of the declassified part of the emails of Hillary Clinton, the former US Secretary of State, a large controversy invades the African countries concerned, including Libya. The content of emails deleted by Hillary Clinton in 2016 concerns the origin of the 2011 revolution, at the time of the Arab Spring, visibly […]
The Algerian junta, with its future constitution, seeks to muzzle its civil society and to divert attention from its internal problems by extending its influence beyond its borders through destabilizing neighboring countries. Reports about these destabilizing attempts and about Algeria’s connections with the terrorist groups roaming in the Sahel-Sahara region made the headlines from time […]