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The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, a Caribbean country, has expressed support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, saying this plan offers “a credible, serious and realistic” solution to this regional dispute. “We are for the resolution of the regional conflict over the Sahara under the sovereignty and the territorial and national integrity […]
Tunisia’s powerful workers union, UGTT, Thursday said it will take part neither in the legislative nor in the presidential elections planned for next fall. Noureddine Taboubi, Secretary General of the powerful union, told a local radio that the union decided it will not field or back any party or independent candidacy for the legislative elections […]
The Algerian army has mobilized six military aircraft to fly 870 Algerians to Egypt as the national soccer team lock horns with Senegal Friday at the final of the African Cup of Nations, AFCON. The army Monday said it added three additional aircraft to fly 270 more supporters. Algeria joined Senegal Sunday for the AFCON […]
In Nigeria, a court has ordered the imminent seizure of $40 million worth of jewellery and a customized gold iPhone belonging to former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the country’s anti-graft agency said. The items, including hundreds of bangles, rings, earrings, necklaces and watches, were found at a property owned by Alison-Madueke, the Economic and Financial […]
The United States has officially welcomed a provisional power-sharing agreement forged by Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups. The U.S. State Department said in a statement that special envoy for Sudan Donald Booth will return to the region soon. The agreement between the Forces for Freedom and Change and […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN Omar Hilale has deflated with sound and accurate arguments Algeria’s claims that it only has an observer status in the Sahara issue, stressing that the genesis of the conflict and the ensuing facts confirm that without Algeria’s aggressive activism, interference, and support to separatist theses, there will be no […]
The government of Chile expressed on Friday its full support to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco to reach a realistic, viable and definitive political solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara. In a joint statement issued in Santiago following the visit paid by Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita, the government of […]
Senior Irish officials voiced on Friday their full support to the process led by the Secretary General of the United Nations for the resolution of the Sahara issue. During meetings held in Dublin with a delegation of elected representatives from Morocco’s Southern Provinces, the Irish officials welcomed the in-depth, productive and enlightening presentations made by […]
The European Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have earmarked about €67 million to support the fight against climate change in Niger. The funding will support the Program for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change (PIDACC) in the Niger Basin. The funding agreement was signed by the Nigerien Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou […]
The UN highlighted the sacrifices of Moroccan peacekeepers who served in different UN missions across the continent describing the North African country as a key partner. “Morocco is a longstanding and key partner for the UN peacekeeping operations,” UN peacekeeping spokesman Nick Birnback told the Moroccan news agency on the international day of peace keeping, […]