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The polisario separatists can no longer conceal their bitter disappointment and growing anxiety following Morocco’s return to the African Union, even if they tried to keep up their composure, saying it is “victory” for them. However, in reality, they know that Moroccan diplomacy has won and scored big points thanks to the Kingdom’s African strategy, […]
After annexing Crimea and securing a foothold on the Syrian coast, Putin’s Russia steadily moves to materialize a new Mediterranean policy boosting its naval presence through strong alliances with north African countries says an analysis published on the French magazine, Liberté Politique. The analysis, signed by historian Bernard Lugan, highlights the central place Morocco occupies […]
Leading international papers commented on Morocco’s readmission to the African Union after 33 years of absence as a landmark diplomatic victory reflecting the north African Kingdom’s growing economic and political clout in the continent. Morocco whose bid to reintegrate the African Union was endorsed by 39 of the 54 AU member countries is officially a […]
King Mohammed VI delivered a landmark speech before the heads of state attending the 28th summit of the African Union that massively endorsed Morocco’s readmission within the continental organization. In the speech, King Mohammed VI underscored the south-south cooperation underpinning the Kingdom’s African endeavor and the large-scale win-win partnerships sealed with a range of African […]
Morocco’s return to the African Union will add new momentum to the continental organization by ushering an era of genuine south-south cooperation based on solidarity and co-development as evidenced by the latest tours of King Mohammed VI in which action was joined to words and large-scale African projects were launched. “Morocco’s return to the African […]
As Morocco gathers support in favor of its return to the African Union (AU) after a 33-year old absence, the Chairperson of the AU commission, South Africa’s Dlamini Zuma stubbornly continues her desperate attempt to obstruct Morocco’s legitimate African ambition. Her repeated diatribes against Morocco reflect her desperation and failure to use the continental body […]
Stalemate is the word that describes the best the sterile negotiations over government formation in Morocco. Three months after the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) won Morocco’s legislative elections with a narrow margin against its arch rival liberal Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), Morocco remains without a government. Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary General of the […]
As the next African summit scheduled in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in January 2017 draws closer, a summit during which Morocco is expected to rejoin the African Union, Algerian authorities are getting more and more nervous. They are already feeling the heat, knowing that they have no more room to play alone in the African court. […]
As it heads straight towards a spiral of economic and social turmoil reminiscent of the situation that it experienced in the late 1980s and the 1990s, Algeria tries desperately to catch up with its western neighbor Morocco. As Rabat increasingly outmanoeuvres Algiers on the continent thanks to a decades-long coherent African strategy underpinned by south-south […]
The imminent return of Morocco to the African Union will offer the North African Kingdom a platform to showcase and share its economic, political and security model that will breakaway with the dominant ideological rhetoric in the organization in favor of a south-south African cooperation model permeated by solidarity and co-development. For decades, the African […]