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As the diplomatic row continues between Rabat, Madrid and Berlin over the Sahara, and as the Kingdom’s relations with France are facing destabilisation attempts over espionage allegations, German Institute for International & Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/SWP) step in to add fuel to the fire. In an analysis published by SWP, which advises Bundestag […]
Morocco has been clear and accurate in spelling out its disagreements with Berlin, while German authorities keep waffling and playing deaf & dumb. Prior to recalling its ambassador to Germany this weekend, the North African Kingdom had first suspended contacts in March with German embassy in Rabat. So, it is not a rushed but a […]
Morocco has recalled its Ambassador to Berlin for consultation in a diplomatic spat over the Sahara and in protest against the “the hostile acts” made by Germany to undermine the interests of the North African Kingdom. Germany has adopted “a destructive attitude on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara”, following the US presidential Proclamation recognizing […]
A German citizen who recently converted to Islam has beheaded his Moroccan wife in a crime that bears the hallmark of the Islamic state group, ISIS. The man in his fifties, living in the city of Hamburg attends a local mosque in the northern German city where there is an important Turkish community, local […]
Algeria, which is known as a traditional customer of Russian and Chinese arms, has become the major buyer of German weapons during the past four years, according to new data released by the Stockholm-based International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In its report on global arms transfers between 2016-20, the Swedish Think-tank ranks Algeria as […]
After the defeat of Daesh by the international coalition, no less than 500 fighters of the Islamic State managed to flee via Turkey, Syria and Iraq, towards Europe, according to the investigative program de the French TV channel M6 Enquête exclusive. These seasoned terrorists have settled in some European countries with a predilection particularly for […]
The age of patronizing is bygone and Morocco has taken matters into its own hands by cutting all contacts with the German embassy in a hard worded message to some European parties that they cannot do business as usual while seeking to undermine Morocco’s territorial integrity. A leaked foreign ministry document, confirmed to the […]
Morocco has decided to halt all contacts with German Embassy in Rabat due to “deep disagreements” with Berlin regarding the Kingdom’s “fundamental issues”. In a note addressed to Head of the Govt. Saad Eddine El Othmani and all members of the cabinet, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has called on all ministries and governmental bodies […]
The German parliament, the Bundstag, canceled a meeting that was proposed by the Greens to discuss the situation in the Moroccan Sahara, deemed by observers as a desperate move by proponents of Polisario separatists to pressure the German state to anti-Moroccan positions. The proposal was canceled by the foreign relations commission led by the Christian […]
German Ambassador to Rabat has described the autonomy initiative put forth by Morocco to settle the Sahara issue as the most realistic solution and separatists claims of the Polisario are “unfeasible”. “It is difficult to find a more realistic solution” than the autonomy initiative to the Sahara conflict which has long lasted, the German Ambassador […]