First Independent Mena Newspaper
Since it joined the African Union a year ago, Morocco has been working closely with African states to address the continent’s pressing issues, notably migration, sustainable development and peace and security. The next African summit, the 30th, scheduled on January 28-29, will see Morocco present a new Agenda on Migration in Africa along with the […]
Tension in relations between Egypt and Sudan has been soaring on the backdrop of the two countries’ diverging foreign policy stands along with an unresolved territorial dispute over the Halaib triangle and disagreements concerning the distribution of the Nile water, in the wake of Ethiopia’s building of a mega dam over the river. The long-brewing […]
Battered by a sharp decline in its international reserves, Algeria made of tourism a key sector to relieve its economy from an acute dependency on oil revenues. However, little is done to boost the contribution of tourism in GDP, which remains limited to 1.4% in 2016 with most tourists being Algerian expatriates returning to visit […]
The Polisario is set to occupy the border crossing linking Morocco to Mauritania through its repetitive acts of banditry in the area that is supposed to remain demilitarized under the UN sponsored 1991 ceasefire agreement in the Sahara. Few days after barring the road to participants in a desert rally departing from Dakhla and bound […]
Emboldened by Algeria’s military and diplomatic cover, the Polisario inaugurated 2018 with a resumption of provocations in the Guerguarat area, the southernmost tip of Morocco’s southern provinces, the Sahara. Three armed Polisario men have barred the road for an hour and a half to participants in the Desert Sahara Challenge rally competition departing from Dakhla […]
Algerian government mouthpiece, Algeria Press Service, and other pro-separatist websites have been inflating news regarding military exercises by the Polisario separatists, east of the berm in the region of Aouserd, as a sign of the militias’ readiness and capacity to wage war against Morocco. Following the diplomatic setbacks it has received- whether at the UN, […]
Aeronautics is a key component of Morocco’s Industrial Acceleration Plan. The sector aims to generate a turnover of 2.8 billion dollars and create 23,000 jobs by 2020. The figures were announced by Industry Minister Moulay Hafid El Alamy in a statement to local media saying that the goals set for the aeronautics sector include reaching […]
Morocco reinforced its position within the UN in 2017 as the Kingdom and several Moroccans have made it to the top UN agencies in 2017 thanks to their credibility and competence. The rise of the Kingdom in UN Committees attests to the efficiency of Moroccan diplomacy and the alignment of national policies with the UN […]
Morocco has bolstered its clout and soft power on the African continent with the adoption of an immigration and asylum policy based on a human rights approach seeking to guarantee to migrants in Morocco access to basic services. Since King Mohammed VI urged the government to adopt a new migration policy, Morocco has become a […]
A decisive vote in the UN General Assembly has further isolated the US in the international community. The vote of 128 against nine, with 35 abstentions and 21 countries not voting, has been received in Washington as a stinging rebuke for Trump and a rejection of his unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as a capital of […]