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Mauritania’s President Mohamed ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has refused to receive a Polisario emissary who is in Nouakchott for five days, reported le360.ma, saying that the move irked Algeria which continues to pull the strings of the separatist militia. The Polisario envoy, Mustapha Sayed, has been in Nouakchott for five days without being able to […]
French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time officially recognized the responsibility of France in the disorder which has been shaking Libya and part of Africa for ten years. “We owe a debt to Libya, very clear: a decade of disorder, » said President Macron while receiving the new Libyan leaders, Tuesday March 23 at […]
Morocco has reiterated its call on the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to put pressure on Algeria to lift its blockade on the Tindouf camps where it has relegated the fate of thousands of Sahraouis to a separatist militia that trades in their suffering. Speaking before the 80th meeting of the UNHCR Standing Committee, Morocco’s representative […]
Morocco has declared null and void a statement on the Sahara issue drafted by the Kenyan Presidency of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union with an instigation from Algeria, while the chairperson of AU commission Moussa Faki called for putting an end to maneuvers. Speaking at a press conference in […]
By March 18, Moroccan farmers have amassed whatever they could take after Algerian authorities addressed them an ultimatum to leave a border area near Figuig which they have cultivated for generations. They are victims of arbitrary colonial borders on the one hand and of an Algerian hostile regime to anything Moroccan, on the other. A […]
Following Morocco’s move to secure once and for all the Guerguarat border crossing with Mauritania, most international reactions have been to Rabat’s favor, wrote Crisis Group, an international conflict prevention NGO. “Despite Polisario’s mobilization, most international reaction to the events in Western Sahara has either reflected support for a swift return to the ceasefire and/or […]
The PJD Islamist party, which took most votes in the latest general elections, is more divided than ever after its former Secretary General froze his membership in the party and declared a boycott of the current party’s leadership after the government approved a cannabis legalization draft bill. The PJD’s predication branch (MUR) also expressed reservations […]
The Algerian regime, which is well known for its anti-Semitism, does not hesitate to get in touch with Israel when it sees an interest in such contacts. The evidence of this ambivalence made the headlines lately with reports saying that a Brazilian military aircraft from Tel Aviv landed in the Houari-Boumedienne airport in Algiers, at […]
Morocco is tightening the noose on Polisario separatists by further narrowing the area east of the berm after satellite images showed that a new wall was built 3km away from the Algerian border. Equipped with state-of-the-art radars and motion detectors, Morocco’s security wall was completed in late 1980s and has put an end to the […]
A bill elaborated by the Interior Ministry to legalize cannabis for medical and industrial use was put off twice by the government council as rifts widen within the Islamist PJD party regarding the legalization of the drug. The PJD Islamists, who lead the current government, seem reluctant to back the bill after the party’s former […]