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Hostility to Morocco reveals financial illiteracy of Algerian media

A pathological fixation on Morocco has been ongoing in Algerian media at the instigation of a military-run regime that made attacking Rabat its daily tactic in a failed attempt to distract a disenchanted people from its own looming financial and economic collapse. Last but not least, Algerian state-sponsored media, including once-independent TSA, revealed their superficiality […]

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WFP deplores Algeria’s failure to deliver aid to civilians in Polisario-run camps

The World Food Program cited in a report a series of dysfunctions that hindered the delivery of aid to the population held against their will by the Polisario in Tindouf camps. The report mentioned WFP’s non-ability to oversee the distribution of aid in the camps due to a lack of free access, adding that it […]

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UN sounds alarm over human rights situation deterioration in Eritrea

United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, has described as “dire” the situation of human rights in Eritrea where the UN official indicates that many youth are facing forced conscription. Nashif, addressing the Human Rights Council, warned that serious violations of people’s basic freedoms in Eritrea have continued “and show no sign […]

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Iranian drones in North Africa, a cause for concern for Morocco and the whole region

Iranian drones have made their way to North Africa through Algeria, posing a threat to the stability of the region, at a time Morocco has been calling the international community’s attention to this threat and warning against the acquisition of drones by terrorist and separatist groups. At the end of 2022, Moroccan Senior Officials highlighted […]

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Growing international concern over Algeria’s alliance with Russia, Iran to control Sahel – Spanish Institute

“The concern of the European Union and the United States is growing about the increasingly close relationship between Algeria, Russia and Iran,” which strives to spread the most radical branch of its Islamism in the Sahel and Sahara states with the support of the Algerian military system, says an analysis posted on the website of […]

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Macron’s Africa tour confirms waning French influence

Right after announcing a new French foreign policy in Africa, Emmanuel Macron started an African tour that led him so far to Angola, Gabon and afterwards to DRC, where France was reminded that its patronizing attitude will lead it to lose more friends on the continent. In Kinshasa, President Felix Tshisekedi told Macron in front […]

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Morocco is right to worry about Iranian drone use by Polisario- security experts

Iranian drones made their way to North Africa through Algeria, according to Western security experts, vindicating Morocco’s warnings over the past months of Iranian destabilization acts that fuel terrorism and separatism. Morocco, which has been warning of Iranian incursions in the Sahel via Algeria, rang the alarm bell that the Polisario are seeking Iranian drones […]

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Morocco, an indisputable oasis of social and economic stability, is indispensable in the EU’s Neighborhood Policy – Independent media outlet

Morocco, an indisputable oasis of social and economic stability in the region, must be regarded as an indispensable nation in the European Union’s Neighborhood Policy, particularly with regard to its southern flank, commented NE Global News Service, an independent media outlet. In a story on Morocco-EU relations, the media outlet highlighted the successive visits by […]

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Can Africa create half a billion jobs by 2050 to overcome its demographic dilemma?

Since Africa’s population has quadrupled since 1960, and is projected to double again by 2050, experts are pondering a crucial question for the future of the continent: how can enough work be created for the increasing numbers of youth arriving on the continent’s labor markets? Development economists have followed with a great concern that, in […]

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Africa Focus Group of Global Coalition against ISIS warns against threats of separatist groups

The Global Coalition against Daesh Africa Focus Group, co-chaired by Morocco, the United States, Italy and Niger, has voiced deep concern over the impact of the proliferation of non-State actors on efforts to counter ISIS in Africa. In a joint statement released following its meeting held March 1-2 in Niamey (Niger), participants said the proliferation […]