First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Polisario used to relay triumphalist communiqués since the signing of the ceasefire agreement in 1991, boasting victories and listing successes, even if they are more imaginary than real. However, the language of an official internal document distributed recently to members of the front’s leadership betrays this triumphalism and concedes “fatal errors” made in the […]
The agreements signed between Morocco and Nigeria to build an offshore gas pipeline has effectively buried plans to achieve the Trans-Saharan Gas Project that was mulled in 2002 to bring Nigerian gas to the Mediterranean through Niger and Algeria. Former Algerian Interior Minister and ex-Ambassador, Abderrahmane Meziane Cherif bemoaned that his country has been outperformed […]
A tanker loaded with phosphate rock cargos exported by Morocco’s state-owned phosphates company (OCP) to Canada was detained in Panama after the Algerian-sponsored Polisario front filed a complaint challenging the legality of the transaction. The vessel is the second held within a month after a New Zealand-bound ship loaded with 50,000 tons of OCP phosphates […]
A diplomat using fists to vent his frustration at the foreign policy failures of his country? That is what the Director General of the Algerian Foreign Ministry, Soufiane Mimouni, did by physically assaulting a Moroccan diplomat, Mohamed Khamlichi, at an event in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Carribean. The attack shows the scale […]
Food security has been a salient feature of Morocco’s cooperation in Africa as evidenced with the agreements signed by the Kingdom and several African countries notably in the fields of Agriculture and fertilizer production. This endeavor to boost food security on the continent has been materialized notably by Morocco’s state-owned phosphates company (OCP), which sealed […]
Gulf States have offered Israel official recognition should the Jewish state embrace peace. The offer comes as leaders of the Gulf States doubt Israel’s keenness to enter in negotiations with Palestine. Tel Aviv is mulling plan to move the Israeli capital to Jerusalem; an idea backed by Washington, which also indicated that it would move […]
Morocco and Nigeria are making headway towards the achievement of the Atlantic Gas Pipeline that is meant to carry Nigerian gas through six countries to Morocco with a potential for export to Europe. To materialize this project, additional agreements were signed in Rabat in the presence of King Mohammed VI and Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Geoffrey […]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies issued its annual Armed Conflict Survey showing that the region of the Middle East and North Africa continues to top the global list of conflict fatalities with 83,000 people dead in 2016. The global think tank with offices in the UK, USA, Asia, and the Middle East, noted that […]
As Morocco continues to undertake mediation efforts to bring the warring factions in Libya into accepting a political solution that safeguards Libya’s stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity, Algeria has meddled in the country’s crisis, violated its sovereignty and took sides in a Libyan internal power struggle. Morocco’s mediation efforts previously culminated with the Skhirate Agreement […]
The Algerian-backed Polisario has imposed a curfew in the Tindouf camps on May 2 to quell a protest that was supposed to be staged on May 3 by the disenchanted population held in inhumane living conditions in south-western Algeria, Morocco’s le 360.ma news website reported. Battered by a series of diplomatic setbacks at the African […]