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When Algeria unilaterally cut gas supplies through the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline in late 2021, it was expecting Morocco to succumb to darkness and electricity cuts. But none of that happened. Instead, a new energy partnership was forged with Spain giving the halted pipeline a new life. Spain received annually 2 million euros from Morocco for […]
Tunisia’s authoritarian president Kais Saied is pushing conspiracy theories to the limit. After accusing the West of trying to undermine Tunisia’s sovereignty amid an uphill battle to gain a new IMF credit line, he now changed targets to scapegoat poor Sub-Saharan migrants uttering comments that verge on abject racism. “The undeclared goal of the successive […]
Nineteen months after Morocco, victim of a “gigantic international destabilization enterprise”, filed a complaint against some French media and NGOs, which accused it of having used the spyware “Pegasus”, “no evidence has been provided to date”, Olivier Baratelli, lawyer of the Kingdom in France, said Friday in Paris. Speaking at a press conference on the […]
Morocco has offered 2000 tons of fertilizers in aid to Gabonese farmers in a series of similar moves that Rabat promised to take to alleviate the fertilizers crisis on the continent. The donation was made to Gabonese farmers as part of directives of King Mohammed VI who held talks on February 15 with Gabon’s president […]
Quelling peaceful dissent and arresting independent journalists is now a common practice in Tunisia as it backpedals on democracy under the leadership of authoritarian president Kais Saied, following the example of his protectors in military-ruled Algeria. After amassing all powers in a firm grip, President Saied launched an unrelenting campaign against peaceful opposition figures, throwing […]
The case of Algerian anti-regime activist Amira Bouraoui has revealed the shaky foundations of the newly found Algiers-Paris ties and showed the fragility of Tunisia’s authoritarian regime which has become a satellite state of the military regime in Algiers. Bouraoui fled to Tunisia seeking to regain France but she was arrested at an airport and […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, highlighted, on the occasion of a high-level meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, the courageous and heroic act of the late King Mohammed V, through the protection provided to Moroccans of Jewish confession, during the Second World War, against the brutal and barbaric Nazi regime […]
The Kingdom of Morocco is currently enduring systematic attacks by the European Union Parliament, and these attacks go beyond the ordinary political and diplomatic engagement between states and institutions, underlines former congressman Michael Flanagan in an analysis published by US magazine Newslooks. “These attacks amount to direct interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states,” […]
The European Parliament has exposed itself as a corrupt institution full of hypocrites’ intent on outsourcing the blame to clean themselves even at the cost of undermining what used to be a privileged partnership with Morocco. The anti-Morocco resolution- adopted last month and wrongly sugarcoated in press freedom and human rights concerns- is but the […]
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 […]