First Independent Mena Newspaper
Moroccan MPs, representatives of civil society, experts and lawyers have denounced the instrumentalization of the human rights issue, the attacks on Morocco’s territorial integrity and the exploitation of the Pegasus case by some members of the European Parliament, part of smear campaigns and repeated attacks against the Kingdom. These participants in a conference-debate, organized by […]
Morocco’s Parliament has reiterated its condemnation of the ongoing maneuvers and smear campaigns staged by the European Parliament (EP) against the Kingdom’s territorial integrity and interference in its judiciary system. This came during a conference-debate hosted by the two chambers of the Moroccan parliament Wednesday to discuss the hostile campaign led by some members of […]
France, the former colonial master in the Sahel, is receiving a series of blows as its foothold shrinks on the back of growing anti-French sentiment and increasing Russian incursions. After their retreat from Mali following a ten-year failure to eradicate Jihadist groups, now Burkina Faso asked France to withdraw its troops from the country within […]
France has put pressure in the last moments preventing the authoritarian regime in Tunis from handing opposition figure Amira Bouraoui to Algeria. Amira Bouraoui fled persecution under the Algerian regime which banned her from leaving the country for her pro-democracy stands and opposition to the regime. She sought to travel to France from Tunisia. But […]
Few days after the adoption of a French-instigated European Parliament resolution hostile to Morocco, French Ambassador to Rabat tried to distance his country from the move that has angered Moroccan authorities and triggered a commensurate response from the European Parliament. In an interview with French-speaking magazine Telquel, French Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier said that the resolution […]
The Iranian regime, which has already established a foothold in Algeria & Polisario-controlled camps, is expanding its sway over the region after having spread death and mayhem throughout the Middle East and the world. Now, the Iranians seek to subjugate Mauritania in a bid to encircle Morocco, U.S. major ally and partner in the region. […]
Spain reiterated its support for Morocco’s autonomy initiative as the most serious, credible and realistic solution to end the regional conflict in the Sahara territory. This reaffirmation came in a joint declaration issued at the end of the 12 Moroccan-Spanish high-level joint committee. The two countries signed 20 cooperation deals and a Spanish credit line […]
The dissolution of the Algerian League of Human Rights shows “the escalating repression of the Algerian regime which is crushing and suffocating the popular pro-democracy Hirak movement, commented on Thursday French daily “Le Monde”. Hundreds of prisoners of conscience are now locked up and countless human rights militants have been banned from leaving the country […]
The Algeria-backed polisario group is at the heart of a money laundering scandal and shadowy terrorism financing network operated in Europe in connivance with Hezbollah, Iran-backed shiite militant group. Citing financial investigators, reports from Spain’s Guardia Civil and terrorism experts, German daily “Die Welt” has revealed lately large-scale financial dealings and transactions between the Polisario […]
The expulsion of the Polisario militias from the African Union is a matter of time and not a principle as an increasing number of African countries realize the risks of admitting a separatist group into a continental organization of sovereign states. The Polisario has to be kicked out of the African Union for this organization […]