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After the Comoros Islands and Gambia, and most recently Guinea and Gabon comes the turn of Central Africa Republic (CAR) and the Republic of Sao Tome & Principe to open this Thursday, a Consulate General in Laayoune, capital of the Moroccan Sahara. The inaugural ceremony of the Consulate of Sao Tome & Principe in Laayoune, […]
Morocco expressed its full support for the implementation of the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic (CAR), Morocco’s foreign ministry said. The agreement provides, inter alia, for elections, national reconciliation, social cohesion and transitional justice; facilitating the creation of a secure environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance; and the […]
The Bank of Central African States, also known as Banque des Etats de I’Afrique Centrale (BEAC), this week said the prices of 28 commodities exported by the six states of the regional bloc (CEMAC) accounting for 90% of export values, declined by 6.2% during the first quarter of 2019. The regional bloc consists of Cameroon, […]
One Moroccan UN soldier was killed and three others were injured in an attack launched Sunday by Christian armed militia in the Central African Republic targeting UN peacekeepers who were protecting a convoy of water trucks. “The attack took place while the Moroccan peacekeepers were escorting water tankers to the river to help resupply the […]
The death Saturday of a second Moroccan peacekeeper operating under the umbrella of the UN mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) was strongly denounced by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The attack in the city of Bangassou also claimed the lives of civilians. “The Secretary-General is outraged by the attacks perpetrated by suspected anti-Balaka […]
The UN Security Council issued a statement strongly denouncing the attack perpetrated by a rebel group against a convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) which resulted in four Cambodian peacekeepers killed, 10 wounded, including nine Moroccans and one Cambodian. One Moroccan peacekeeper is reported missing in […]
UN Secretary General vigorously condemned the attack on a convoy of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) known as The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Four UN peacekeepers have been missing, three Cambodians and one Moroccan, since the ambush by Christian rebel group, Anti-Balaka, […]
Two soldiers of the Moroccan Royal Army operating under the banner of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) were gunned down Tuesday by armed men while escorting a convoy of trucks transporting fuel from Zemio to Obo, the UN mission said in a statement on Wednesday. The two […]
More countries have joined the group of 28 member states of the African union, which addressed last Monday a motion to the AU chair expressing support to Morocco’s return to its African family and demanding the suspension of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic from the pan-African organization. In this vein, Egypt’s Ambassador in Rabat, Ihab Jamaleddine […]
The days of the self-proclaimed SADR as a member of the African Union seem to be counted after 28 African countries called for suspending the membership of the Algerian-based republic from all the bodies and activities of the African Union. This came in a motion submitted by the 28 African nations to the President of […]