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The 2024 report submitted lately to the UN Security Council by UN Chief Antonio Guterres highlights the growing international support for Morocco’s autonomy plan under the Kingdom’s sovereignty, affirms that Algeria is a party to the Sahara conflict, and denounces Polisario obstruction of MINURSO mission. In his new report to the Security Council, expected to […]
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) launched, at the initiative of the Moroccan presidency of this UN body, an Advisory Council on Gender Equality, aimed at providing advice and suggestions on promoting gender equality and parity and helping to mainstream a gender perspective during Morocco’s presidency. This body, the first of its kind, was set […]
The United States has demanded the Algerian regime to change its behavior in the region during the meeting held lately in New York between U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs John Bass and Algerian foreign minister Ahmed Attaf. According to a diplomatic source at the U.S. State Department cited by press reports, the meeting, which […]
Spokesman for the Malian government denounced at the UN in the strongest terms Algeria’s destabilization role in the Sahel and Algiers interference in Mali’s domestic affairs. “We observe a grave interference in Mali’s domestic affairs… Mali is not an Algerian Wilaya (province),” said deputy prime minister and spokesman for the Malian government Abdoulaye Maïga in […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita conferred Sunday in New York, on the sidelines of UN General Assembly, with UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on the issue in October. The meeting, attended by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, was an opportunity to highlight the international […]
Few days after Algeria re-introduced visa entry requirements on Moroccan passport holders, Morocco has not reacted to a decision that comes in a series of self-harming escalatory and provocative measures by a disillusioned Algerian military regime blinded by Morocco phobia. The Algerian foreign minister said the measure will have immediate effect and came following what […]
Morocco is developing its defense industry to reduce its dependence on foreign weapons purchases and strengthen its military capabilities to counter threats to its national security. After it adopted the legal frameworks governing military industry clusters and established military industry zones, the North African Kingdom attracted India ‘s “TATA Advanced Systems”, which has become one […]
Keen to save its hard currency reserves for tougher days, Algeria continues an unrelentless import restriction policy that resulted in severe shortages of key products with tires and coffee being the latest to join a long list of expensive and unavailable goods in the country. Transport unions have rung the alarm bell as to the […]
Few days ahead of Tunisian one-man show presidential election, candidate Ayachi Zammel received a 6-month prison sentence as Tunisia’s strongman and incumbent president Kais Saied continues to use the judiciary against political opponents. This is the second sentence against Zammel, who was handed a 20-month jail term for falsifying popular endorsement, in a verdict described […]
The Algerian regime and its Polisario puppet have suffered another embarrassing setback on the international scene after the African Chess Confederation cancelled the membership of Polisario during a meeting held on the sidelines of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) congress organized Sept. 20-22 in Budapest, Hungary. The African Chess Confederation is based in Algiers and […]