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King Mohammed VI has called for launching an international initiative to help Sahel countries access the Atlantic Ocean. In a speech marking the 48th anniversary of the Green March he delivered Monday evening, the King recalled the difficulties facing African sister countries in the Sahel. Such issues “will not be solved by security and military […]
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI urged an upgrade of Morocco’s Atlantic coast, highlighting its role in terms of human interaction and economic integration at the continental and international levels. “Just as the Mediterranean links Morocco to Europe, the Atlantic coast is our gateway to Africa and the Americas,” said the King in a speech marking the […]
Algeria has not yet made an official reaction to a security council resolution calling for a mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara issue, while reiterating the credible and serious character of Morocco’s autonomy plan. The resolution repeated its call on Algeria as a party to the conflict to take part actively in the round tables […]
Tens of thousands of people staged on Sunday Nov.5 demonstrations in several Sahara cities, including Laayoune, Dakhla, and Smara to denounce the terrorist acts of the Polisario against the city of Smara, the spiritual capital of the Moroccan Sahara. On the eve of the celebrations of the Green March 48th anniversary, tens of thousands of […]
Algeria’s pathological obsession with the Moroccan Sahara was exposed before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly by the Morocco’s delegation, proving, if need be, that Algeria is indeed a main party to this regional dispute. In response to the Algerian representative’s fallacious allegations regarding the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara and […]
Yahya Tayalati and Youssef Ouknine, two of Morocco’s top scientific researchers, have been made fellows of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries that has more than 1,400 scientists in around 100 countries. Tayalti from Rabat-based Université Mohammed V and Ouknine from Marrakech-located Université Cadi Ayyad are members […]
Africa cannot achieve food security without improving intra-continent trade, according to a senior official of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) who was speaking at the recent 2023 Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security Commemoration and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Partnership Platform meeting in Lusaka, Zambia. Organized by […]
Morocco has reiterated its urgent call at the UN for the cessation of military aggressions in the Middle East to avoid the sufferings of a conflict undermining peace and stability in the region. Addressing the special session of UN General Assembly convening in NY on the situation in Palestine, Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Omar […]
The projectiles fired into Smara on Saturday killing one and injuring three others are a “terrorist act” and an “act of war” that will not go unpunished, said Omar Hilale Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN. Speaking to the press after the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Sahara for […]
The UN Security Council deplored the abject living conditions and rights violations in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria and urged a headcount of the population held there. The Council strongly reiterated its “request for a refugee registration in the Tindouf refugee camps,” reads the resolution 2703 adopted following a vote of 13 in favor […]