First Independent Mena Newspaper
The African Lion drills, the most important military exercises that take place in Africa, will unfold this year partly in the Moroccan Sahara. The news was already relayed late March by Moroccan media following a preparatory meeting between Moroccan and US senior army officials. The media had then reported that Tan Tan, Mahbes and Dakhla […]
Foreign minister Nasser Bourita has reiterated Morocco’s strong rejection of the Spanish decision to host Separatist leader Ibrahim Ghali, and said that Spain has to choose either Morocco or Ghali. The Spanish decision risks seriously undermining relations with Morocco, Bourita told Spanish news agency EFE. Ghali was admitted at a Spanish hospital after entering the […]
Morocco spent €1.4 million in support for mosques and Muslim associations in Madrid and Catalonia, Islamic affairs minister Ahmed Taoufiq said. That amount was intended to cover the financial needs of places exclusively dedicated to worship as well as legal associations, the minister told Spanish news agency EFE. Morocco’s support for mosques in Spain does […]
Despite the call by the UN Secretary General Antonio Gueteres for the need to maintain the flow of commercial traffic between Morocco and its southern neighbors unhindered, the Polisario obstinately harasses and blocks the movement of Moroccan trucks in the buffer strip of Guerguarat. The Polisario is thus blatantly violating the 1991 ceasefire agreement, which […]
Spanish security forces over the week-end arrested in Madrid and near Barcelona two Moroccans operating as recruiters for the Islamic State group (IS), reports say. The two men operating in separate cells were nabbed in Madrid and at Roda de Ter near Barcelona on Saturday, the interior ministry announced. The IS militants according to the […]