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Moroccan para-athlete Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi has cracked the 1500 m world record at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championship taking place in Paris July 8 – 17. Fatima Ezzahra won gold in women’s 1500m T12, setting new world record at 4:22.15. American athlete Liza Corso ranked 2nd followed by Tunisia’s Somaya Bousaid. The Paris […]
Algeria’s impulsive military-guided diplomacy has sown wind and reaped whirlwind. The newly appointed foreign minister Ahmed Attaf has returned empty handed from Germany and Serbia to mention but a few trips in which he failed to win support for the separatist polisario front. Soon after his visit to Germany and Serbia where he met their […]
President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez has reaffirmed the “solid ties” existing between Rabat and Madrid, and hailed the “dynamic cooperation” and “strategic partnership” between the two kingdoms. “In the context of Spain’s foreign policy, we have strong ties with Morocco of all kinds, but above all human ties created by our citizens and […]
Under the eloquent title “Le Code M6”, the French weekly Le Nouvel Economiste has published a dossier on Morocco, in which it asserts that “since he came to power in 1999, Mohamed VI has left his mark”, the Kingdom now being “considered one of the most dynamic economies in the North African region.” The country […]
Pundits have been warning that terror groups in Africa have found a breeding ground for recruiting militants in the huge refugee camps scattered around the continent, including the Polisario-controlled camps in Tindouf in Algeria, with plans to stage attacks on Europe. “Islamists have a strong presence in Africa and recruit in huge refugee camps. And […]
The Sahara conflict and the serious regional threat posed by the Iranian military support to the Algeria-backed Polisario armed militia have triggered the alarm bell at the UK parliament. During a debate held lately at the House of Commons on Iranian hostile activities threatening UK partners and allies, conservative MP James Duddridge (Rochford & Southend […]
Morocco and Germany agreed on Thursday in Berlin to launch next year the Multidimensional Strategic Dialogue agreed upon in 2022. This dialogue will serve as a basis for moving forward in bilateral relations and strengthen coherence between the different areas of bilateral cooperation. The announcement came at the end of a meeting between Foreign Minister, […]
Germany reiterated, on Thursday, its support for the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan for the Sahara, presented in 2007, as a “serious and credible” effort by the Kingdom and a “very good basis for a solution accepted by the parties.” Head of German diplomacy, Annalena Baerbock, reiterated Germany’s “long-standing support for the UN-led process for a realistic, […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale has laid bare the Algerian Foreign Minister’s manifest contradictions before the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku on Thursday, pointing out that Algeria is instrumentalizing the Movement’s principles it claims to promote in international forums at a time when it has persisted in violating them for decades. Hilal’s remarks […]
Italy said on July 5 it backs Morocco’s “serious and credible efforts” to find a lasting solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara territory. The position was expressed by Italy’s foreign ministry during a visit to Rome by Morocco’s foreign minister Nasser Bourita. The Italian clear-cut position in support of a solution on the […]