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Morocco’s pivot to Africa is the fruit of a decades-long strategy based on a win-win approach and the values of co-development and solidarity, said King Mohammed VI In a speech on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and People, the King highlighted the salient features of Morocco’s African policy […]
The longstanding ties between Morocco and African countries, recently strengthened by a well-deserved return to Africa’s institutional family, the African Union, enables the Kingdom to play the role of a gateway to several countries looking forward to foster ties with the continent. Argentinian media has recently raised the importance of Morocco’s network and diplomatic ties […]
Morocco tops the ranking of most hospitable North African states towards Sub-Saharan migrants, a study, conducted by the US News and World Report, found. The study was based on a poll involving 21,000 people from 80 countries responding to questions on economic stability, access to the job market, equality of revenues and habitability. The countries […]
As Morocco gather’s support for its membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a Moroccan delegation will attend the bi-annual summit of the west African sub-regional grouping, in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. The delegation, led by Morocco’s Ambassador to Abuja, Moha Ouali Tagma, will hold talks with West African officials ahead of the […]
Morocco’s return to the African Union has paved the way for the Kingdom to pursue an active diplomatic and economic policy notably in West Africa where the North African country has proved to be a “vector of investments”, writes the World Politics Review. The article entitled “Morocco’s West Africa Outreach Is Motivated by More Than […]
The majority of the member states attending the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa have officially welcomed Morocco as a fully-fledged member in the African institutional family. Morocco was readmitted in the African Union following the broad consensus among an overwhelming majority of member states on the North African country’s application to join 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. […]
The President of the African Union Commission, South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, came under harsh criticism for her deafening silence on the violations of human rights and the 1951 Geneva convention by Algerian authorities which have recently deported thousands of Sub-Saharan migrants. Officials from Mali, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire have all condemned the silence of the […]
The visit King Mohammed VI was planning to pay to Zambia this December has been postponed to early 2017, announced the Zambian Foreign Department in a release. King Mohammed VI was scheduled to visit the Central African country on December 17 following his state visit to Nigeria. The reasons for the postponement have not been […]
It seems that plotting against Morocco’s interest and its territorial integrity is the only task the Chairperson of the African Union Commission has excelled at during her tenure in which she accumulated a series of failures on Africa’s key issues. After indirectly complaining against Zuma’s anti-Moroccan stands and her bias in supporting the Polisario separatists […]