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Morocco’s Permanent Representative at the UN headquarters in New York, Ambassador Omar Hilale, reiterated the Kingdom’s commitment to the UN-brokered 1991 cease-fire agreement in response to the Polisario’s recent violation of the agreement in the area of Guerguarat and its provocations by threatening to resume armed hostilities on the backdrop of the security measures taken […]
Morocco’s leading banking group, Attijariwafa bank, has submitted a bid to take over British Barclay’s Egypt branch, a source close to the Moroccan institution told Reuters. The transaction has been estimated at $400 million. Barclay has decided to get rid of its Egypt’s branch as part of structural adjustment policy in a move to generate […]
Morocco mobilizes its security forces along with customs services in a clampdown on smugglers in the southernmost tip of the country on the borders with Mauritania. A statement issued by Dakhla regional authorities said that the operation started on August 14 in Guerarat on the borders with Mauritania with the aim of clearing the region […]
Heavy fighting erupted in Mali’s restive north between the Tuaregs of the Coordination of movements of Azawad (CMA) and the pro-government militias of the the Platform Movement causing dozen deaths and casting doubt on the viability of the fragile peace deal. The clashes, which took place on July 21-22, broke out in the town of […]
Islamist militant Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi, a member of the so-called People’s Army of Sahrawi Liberation (military branch of the polisario secessionist movement) who joined the terror organization ISIS, has threatened to attack MINURSO and foreign tourists in Sahara. In an audio recording aired by Al Jazeera, Abu Walid Al-Sahrawi has, for the first time, threatened […]
Two terrorists Monday opened fire at a hotel in the Malian capital, Bamako, where EU military instructors were lodging. The attack targeted Azalaïl Hotel Nord-Sud, located in a posh neighborhood of Bamako, near the US embassy and the UN headquarters in the Malia capital. The hotel is used by European Union multinational military training mission […]
The Algerian government has reportedly reached in 2012 a secret agreement with Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar to attack Moroccan interests in the Sahara, reveals a confidential e-mail of former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, made public by Wikileaks on Thursday “According to sources with access to the Algerian DGSE, the Bouteflika government reached a […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has condemned in the most vigorous terms the simultaneous terror attacks that targeted Sunday the Ivorian seaside resort of Grand Bassam. The King sent a message of condolences to President Alassane Ouattara and also talked to him over the phone. According to a statement released by the Royal Office Sunday […]
Predictions made years ago by many a pundit about the Tindouf-based separatists’ schemes to lay hand on the drug trafficking market in the Sahel-Sahara region have been confirmed once and again, and most recently by a Mauritanian official. Ahmadou Abdel Malek, the official spokesman in France of the Mauritanian ruling Union for the Republic, told […]
Under Secretary of State for political affairs Thomas A. Shannon hailed Morocco for its mature and balanced approach in dealing with the Sahara issue, describing the proposal made by the North African country to grant autonomy status to the disputed territory as “realistic, serious and credible.” “Morocco’s autonomy proposal is realistic, serious and credible,” and […]