Category: Columns

Morocco, a US important regional partner (US Congress Think-Thank)

October 11, 2021

Successive US Administrations have viewed Morocco as an important regional partner on security, trade, and development, writes the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) in its ... Read More

Algeria wants Morocco to leave Morocco!!!

October 9, 2021

In its most recent diplomatic blunder, the Algerian foreign ministry called Morocco to leave its southernmost tip of Guerguarat as a condition for finding a ... Read More

King Mohammed VI urges government, parliament to implement new development model

October 8, 2021

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI delivered a speech Friday marking the opening of the parliament fall session in which he urged the new cabinet and the ... Read More

Morocco: Who are the seven women appointed in the new skilled, competent government?

October 8, 2021

Morocco’s new government includes seven women ministers in a cabinet of 24 members that was named by King Mohammed VI after Sept.8 elections. The King ... Read More

French President expects more tension with Algeria

October 5, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron maintained the statements that angered Algeria and said that he expects more tension with Algeria regarding memory. The French President had ... Read More

Algeria uses bogus terrorism charges to muzzle vocal opponents

October 3, 2021

Several human rights watchdogs have denounced the use by the Algerian authorities of fabricated terrorism charges to silence journalists, human rights defenders, political activists, and ... Read More

Algeria’s weakening gas and oil export capacity cast shadow on fragile social peace

September 30, 2021

Algeria’s dim reality is that it has an endemic reliance on gas and oil for over 95% of its exports as well as for generous ... Read More

ECJ delivers a politically motivated verdict prejudicial to EU-Moroccan partnership

September 30, 2021

A new ruling by the European Court of Justice annulled the agricultural and fisheries deals that covered all Morocco’s territories and waters in a verdict ... Read More

Bouteflika, Algeria’s missed chance to rise from civil war ashes

September 21, 2021

Algeria’s former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, passed away last week, leaving his country at the mercy of a military junta that did little to relieve the ... Read More

Morocco set to reinforce its combat drone arsenal

September 20, 2021

Acquiring advanced combat drones has featured as a main component of Morocco’s army modernization efforts with the receipt of 12 Turkish Bayraktar drones and news ... Read More