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Once again Morocco played a key role in the fight against terrorism. It provided French security services valuable intelligence that helped them locate another deadly terror cell that slipped the police net after the series of attacks committed in Paris last Friday. Thanks to Moroccan tip-off, the French police launched a dawn raid on a […]
Following the barbaric terror attacks that rocked last Friday Paris, claiming 129 lives, several analysts and intelligence experts have called on France and other European countries to step up their support to Morocco which spearheads a landmark training program for imams to counter Islamic radicalization. This ambitious program is deemed so far by worldwide experts […]
While France is embarking on a long journey to heal its wounds after the Friday terrorist onslaught that traumatized the country, the whole world is continuing expressing solidarity with the European State and condemning the outrageous attempt that left 132 people dead and more than 350 wounded, the highest casualties ever in a terror assault […]
Following the Moroccan Monarch’s speech on the occasion of the Green March, a recurrent spat sparked in the Moroccan and Algerian press reflecting the increasing tension between the two countries. Yet, the causes of the Morocco-Algerian discord remain largely misunderstood, because most analyses on the issue focus on the symptoms rather than on the deep […]
King Mohammed presented on Friday a genuine roadmap for the development of the Moroccan Sahara provinces, announcing a number of large-scale, wealth and job generating projects, and pledging to make of these provinces a model of integrated development and to enable the Saharan populations to become full-fledged citizens and to enjoy a dignified life. “Morocco […]
The Spanish Interior Minister, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, will be meeting in Las Palmas on November 6, members of ACAVITE, the Canary Association of Victims of Terrorism. This meeting with the members of ACAVITE sounds like a candid recognition by Spain that the Polisario did commit terrorist acts and did have connections with terrorist networks in […]
There are very few events in the History of a country that transcend time and generations to remain vivid in the memory of all, old and young, there are few events that bear a historical grandeur and a sense of destiny and belonging. Morocco did live such an event. That was the Green March, the […]
In this 21st century and in a world where women are heads of State, heads of Government, leaders of political parties, CEOs, academics, physicians, soldiers, police officers, pilots, and even family income providers, it is absurd and perhaps ridiculous to continue to view and deal with women as second grade citizens. It is worse in […]
The invitation extended by a Moroccan association to a controversial Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia to visit Morocco has caused concerns amongst different organizations, thinkers, analysts and large layers of society over his anti-Shia, anti-Sufi and extremist stances. The infamous cleric, Mohammad al-Arifi, was also unwelcome because of his repeated calls for jihad, holy war, […]
Sweden’s plans to recognize the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic has sparked widespread anger in Morocco where the Islamist-led government and all political parties denounced Stockholm’s political hostile move. All Moroccan political actors in the North African nation are in shock. They cannot figure out why some Swedish political parties are taking such a perilous stand instead […]