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Nigeria’s federal government prepares to launch works to build a pipeline that will channel gas to Morocco through a combined offshore and onshore track. The announcement was made by senior official at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Yusuf Usman, during an interview with local NewsDirect newspaper. Feasibility studies have been completed and Nigeria is […]
The Algerian army will deploy in Mali where France is preparing a military base for the Algerian soldiers, says London-based consultancy & business intelligence center, Menas Associates, citing a reliable source and photographic evidence. The Algerians will be deployed at Hombori base, 247 km southwest of Gao, on the front line of the Sahel’s Three […]
King Mohammed VI has given instructions to a number of institutions and stakeholders to facilitate the 2021 Summer holidays for the Moroccan community settled abroad, whose majority could not visit the home country last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The King’s instructions come just a couple of days before the entry into effect […]
Algerian voters have largely abstained from casting ballot in the parliamentary elections amid a crackdown on dissent and free speech by a military regime ruling behind a thin civilian curtain. The military rulers were hoping to use the elections to restore authoritarian stability in a country that braces for an acute economic crisis against the […]
International troops taking part in the African Lion exercise in Mahbes in the Moroccan Sahara as well as the international media attended live rocket firing and paratroop deployment in an area that the Polisario claimed to have targeted in yet a new blatant lie. About 40 kilometers away from the rear base of the separatist […]
Those who expected this Thursday in Brussels a condemnation by the European Parliament of Morocco after a record number of migrants entered the occupied enclave of Ceuta last May were greatly disappointed. Such a bitter disappointment comes after the resolution tabled by Spanish MEPs was not approved with the majority sought and did not gain […]
The US has tested the HIMRAS rocket launchers in the African Lion drills co-held with Morocco in the area of Mahbes in the Sahara region. Media showed HIMRAS launchers firing multiple rockets in Mahbes area, only 40 kilometers away from the rear base of the Polisario separatist militias in Algeria. HIMRAS system carries six rockets […]
Spain has flawed Schengen rules and its own judiciary by letting in Polisario leader Brahim Ghali under what Rabat called fraudulent conditions. La Razon and other Spanish media have reported that an investigation has been opened at the Spanish airport where Ghali was let in to determine the conditions of his access to the country. […]
After pushing conspiracy theories to the limit, trying to pin Algeria’s home-grown economic and social problems on “foreign hands”, Algeria’s new ailing president Teboune has given a diatribe under the form of an interview to French le Point magazine in which he mocked himself by trying once again to wave the Moroccan threat at the […]
French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has welcomed Morocco’s commitment expressed by the royal instruction of June 1 to repatriate unaccompanied minors of Moroccan origin present on European territory. “This commitment underscores our common desire to deal to the best with this difficult issue, on which France and Morocco have regular exchanges which have enabled […]