First Independent Mena Newspaper
The UN has laid bare the claims of Polisario regarding tensions in the Sahara and exposed to the world the lies of the Algeria-backed separatists. The UN mission in the Sahara “continues to receive unconfirmed reports of sporadic firing across the berm. The Mission continues to monitor the situation throughout the Territory, including in Guerguarat,” […]
The undivided map of Morocco, including the Sahara provinces, continues to be officially adopted by US authorities and international bodies since the US recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara on dec.10, 2020. After the US Department of State, the Pentagon, the CIA and NATO, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has also displayed […]
Morocco has called on the European Union to leave its comfort zone and support the positive dynamics underway in the Moroccan Sahara. The call was launched by Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita in an interview with Europe Agency. Answering a question on the US decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara, the minister […]
The stand of the United States on Moroccan Sahara remains unchanged despite the heavy pressure exerted by pro-polisario lobbyists paid by Algeria to push the Biden administration to reverse its predecessor’s recognition of Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara territory. But all the hostile campaign fueled by Algeria’s military junta was deflated on Monday […]
American political scientist, Robert Satloff, a reference in Arab-Muslim world policy and US policy in the Middle East, expressed his strong disagreement with the approach by Republican senator and fervent defender of the Polisario Jim Inhofe, who urged President Joe Biden to reconsider the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. “I think this is […]
The Spanish government has asserted that Spain has had no “responsibility of an international character” with regard to the administration of the Sahara since 1976, dealing a scathing blow to the Polisario and its supporters. “Spain considers itself released from any responsibility of an international character with regard to the administration of Western Sahara since […]
The US Department of State has updated Morocco’s undivided map, including the Sahara southern provinces, on its international travel information website. Regarding the international Covid crisis, the State Department website places Morocco in the yellow zone, while Algeria is cataloged in the red zone for terrorism, kidnapping as well as for the Covid 19 virus. […]
Blinded by its support for the Polisario separatists, Algeria mulls withdrawing from the African handball championship to be held in Laayoune and Guelmim in the Southern provinces, in 2022, Algerian media reported. An investigation has also been opened against the head of the Algerian handball federation for voting in favor of Morocco. The move highlights […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, on Tuesday sent a letter to the UN Secretary General and to the President and members of the Security Council, in which he denounced South Africa’s the maneuvers and misleading tactics about the Sahara issue. The Moroccan ambassador’s letter comes following the correspondence that South Africa’s Permanent […]
The outgoing US ambassador to Morocco, David Fischer, said he was confident “as to the future of Moroccan-American relations”, deeming that “they will be in safe hands”. At a press conference Monday in Rabat marking the end of his mission in Morocco, the US ambassador commended King Mohammed VI for having guided US-Moroccan friendship towards […]