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Algeria has taken another unilateral move in its relations with Morocco by pushing forward with the exploitation of a huge iron mine in Tindouf region in total disregard for a 1972 border treaty with Morocco which provided for the shared and equal exploitation of the mine. The pact was interpreted as the price that Morocco […]
Tunisia faces an economic and a political crisis that are unfolding, leaving very short deadlines for the current leadership to come up with solutions that would spare the Tunisian people scenarios of its eastern and western neighbors. Surrounded by unstable Libya in the east and authoritarian Algerian in the east, Tunisia is navigating uncharted waters […]
Morocco has reiterated its call on the Algerian presidency to act in order to restore normal ties between the Moroccan and Algerian peoples, evoking shared history, culture and destiny. The call was made by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI in a speech on the occasion of the Throne Day, confirming once again Rabat’s neighbourliness and forward-looking […]
In Morocco, King Mohammed VI is custodian of the freedom of worship in a country that embraces the Muslim and Jewish constituents of its identity. Thanks to efforts spearheaded personally by the Monarch, Morocco has strengthened its character as a home of religious diversity and traditions of tolerance and coexistence. In 2010, King Mohammed VI […]
Human Rights Watch has once again derailed from its watchdog mission issuing a politically-motivated heinous report on the state of human rights in Morocco in which allegations are taken as facts! In a 129-page report that is more of a diatribe than an objective compilation, HRW rehashed one-sided stories and statements from a group of […]
Morocco has during the past two decades strengthened its foothold and won support for its crucial causes from old and new allies as it marches on a steady diplomatic track engineered by King Mohammed VI. The foreign policy achievements are reflective of the growing clout of the country and its credibility and growing soft power, […]
Morocco is celebrating this week the 23rd anniversary of the enthronement of King Mohammed VI, an occasion to zoom on the achievements made by the country under a forward-looking King whose vision is putting the kingdom on track of modernity. When the current king succeeded to his father in 1999, Morocco had a GDP of […]
When Algeria halted its biggest gas pipeline with Spain in late 2021, decision-makers in Madrid knew that Algiers’ reliability as an energy supplier was called into question. In a series of self-defeating measures, Algeria has announced a technical problem in the small Medgaz pipeline, effectively halting all exports to Spain and further pushing the country […]
Since King Mohammed VI ascended the Throne, Morocco has been showing Africa the way for south-south cooperation and win-win intra-African partnerships by taking initiatives on the ground matching its Africa policy discourse. The recent such initiative was the helping hand extended by Moroccan state-owned phosphates and fertilizers company OCP which offered African countries 550,000 tons […]
Human traffickers continue to exploit domestic and foreign victims in Algeria, and traffickers exploit victims from Algeria abroad, according to the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report issued by the State Department. Undocumented sub-Saharan migrants, primarily from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Liberia, and Nigeria, are most vulnerable to labor and sex trafficking in Algeria, […]