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As it continues to deepen its isolation in its immediate neighbourhood, the blunders of a military-controlled diplomacy have ensued new setbacks in ties with Saudi Arabia, where Algeria’s genuine ruler general Said Chengriha has spent more than ten days without being able to meet Saudi leader Mohamed Bin Salman. Chengriha, who pulls the strings of […]
Senior leaders from Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reportedly met three times in January for unannounced talks in Bahrain, the first such contact between the two warring sides in nine months of conflict, just as the United Nations has warned that the number of people uprooted by the war is almost […]
The proceedings of the 2nd meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the Islamic Military Coalition for the Fight against Terrorism were held on Saturday in Riyadh, with the participation of the coalition’s member states, including Morocco. Morocco was represented at this meeting, held under the theme “Combating Terrorism: A Shared Responsibility”, by […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince gave a directive ordering the administrations of his country to use only maps that show the full territory of the Moroccan Kingdom including the Sahara territory. Prince Mohammad Bin Salman also gave directives to drop the appellation “Western Sahara” in referring to the Moroccan Sahara in Saudi official jargon. The order […]
Sudan’s army-aligned government has announced it won’t attend an extraordinary summit scheduled for 18 January and organized by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), saying its had suspended with the East African, accusing it of “violating” the country’s sovereignty by inviting a rival paramilitary chief to the high-level meeting. This announcement comes as Sudan entered […]
A Moroccan-Saudi economic forum will be held in Riyadh this January 21-22 by the Moroccan Employers’ Association (CGEM) in cooperation with the Federation of Saudi Chambers. The program of the forum features presentations on the business climate in Morocco and Saudi Arabia, a session on investment opportunities in the two countries, a meeting of the […]
Custodian of the Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has sent a verbal message to King Mohammed VI. The message was conveyed to Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan this Monday in Rabat by Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Minister of State and member of the Council of […]
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is seeking the exclusive BRICS membership to enhance its global economic influence that would also allow it to loosen its ties with the West, according to experts. According to Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, the West African country hopes to join the influential economic alliance within two years, stressing […]
The African Union’s quest to assert itself in global arenas as a partner to regional institutions and global powers is undermined by the presence of a separatist proxy that lacks all the attributes of a sovereign state. In less than a week, two major partnership events were put off sine die to avoid the probability […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied removed Tuesday August 22 the governor of Kairouan governorate (Central Tunisia) because of delays in the construction of the King Salman Ibn Abdelaziz Teaching Hospital financed by the Saudi Development Fund. The removal came a day after a high-level meeting chaired by the President and attended by the governor Mohamed Bourguiba […]