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France has suspended joint military operations with Malian forces as a precautionary measure, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said Thursday, June 3, adding that the decision was linked to the ongoing political transition in Mali and would be reassessed in the coming days. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the […]
French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has welcomed Morocco’s commitment expressed by the royal instruction of June 1 to repatriate unaccompanied minors of Moroccan origin present on European territory. “This commitment underscores our common desire to deal to the best with this difficult issue, on which France and Morocco have regular exchanges which have enabled […]
A Spanish judge in Logroño has opened an investigation against the Polisario militias’ chief for forgery and counterfeiting as he had entered Spain under a false identity. Brahim Ghali secretly entered Spain on April 18 in a trip arranged by the Spanish government and Algeria, using a fake identity and an Algerian diplomatic passport under […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided Moroccan CIH Bank with a €60 million funding destined to support SMEs affected by the global health crisis generated by Covid-19 pandemic. The two financial institutions signed on Wednesday an agreement to support Moroccan companies to stimulate the economic recovery from the impact of the pandemic. The EIB […]
The Popular Party (PP), the main opposition party in Spain, on Wednesday called for the “immediate resignation” of the Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya over her “disastrous” management of the crisis with Morocco and the “wilful blindness” she showed in the case of the so-called Brahim Ghali. “I think the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
The European Union welcomed, on Tuesday, Morocco’s decision to definitively settle the issue of unaccompanied Moroccan minors in illegal situation in certain European countries. “I welcome this important announcement from Morocco today regarding the readmission of unaccompanied minors,” said Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement. “We will continue our close cooperation with Morocco […]
It is a “full support” that French President Emmanuel Macron expressed to the head of the Libyan government Abdel Hamid Dbeibah who was received Tuesday June 1 at the Élysée Palace. Emmanuel Macron described the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) as “an important step” in ending the crisis. Speaking after the meeting, […]
Egregious crimes never die out or fall into oblivion. They usually come back to haunt the killers years after they commit them. the head of the Algeria-backed polisario militias Brahim Ghali is facing serious charges of genocide, rape, murder, terrorism, torture and disappearances. Several Spanish nationals of Sahrawi origin are suing him and the list […]
Morocco has once again proven its sincere migration cooperation in ordering a facilitation of the return of identified and unaccompanied migrants from the European Union, thus pulling the rug from under the feet of some Spanish circles who seek to mislead the public opinion about the genuine political causes of the crisis between Madrid and […]
King Mohammed VI has reiterated instructions for the Interior and Foreign Ministries to readmit Moroccan unaccompanied and duly identified minors residing illegally in the EU. A statement of the two ministries underscored that Morocco has always cooperated with the EU in readmitting minors, notably with France and Spain. The King “reaffirmed on multiple occasions- including […]