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A new chapter has been opened in Moroccan-South African relations following the ice-breaking meeting between Morocco and the outgoing South African President Jakob Zoma. The election of Cyril Ramaphosa is boding well for bilateral ties between two of Africa’s leading powers. King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who showed interest in bolstering ties with South Africa, […]
Morocco and South Africa showed converging views on addressing migration challenges in Africa following an approach permeated by south-south cooperation and solidarity. South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkoana-Mashabane told the press, on the sidelines of her participation at the Ministerial Conference for an African Agenda on Migration held in Rabat on January 10, that her country […]
The rapprochement between Morocco and South Africa seems to annoy some pro-separatism journalists who continue to spit their venom in the media. The diatribe written on Eyewitness News by Jean Jacques Cornish against Morocco is illustrative of the demise of the separatist discourse in Africa in general and in South Africa in particular. In a […]
President Jacob Zuma has made a volte-face that bodes well for relations between South Africa and Morocco. Following the talks he had with King Mohammed VI in Abidjan on the sidelines of the AU-EU summit, Zuma continues to talk about promising prospects for ties with Morocco making allusions that Morocco’s absence from the African Union […]
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma said that a promising future awaits his country’s relations with Morocco following the ice breaking talks he had in Abidjan few days ago with King Mohammed VI. Speaking in an interview with South African news outlet “News 24″, Zuma said that “Morocco is an African nation and we need to […]
Morocco has adopted a pro-active diplomacy that breaks away with the empty chair policy, which left the country outside AU institutions since 1984. Almost one year after its triumphal return to the African Union, Morocco made diplomatic headways thanks to an African Policy that continues to turn former African adversaries into friends. The talks held […]
An “ice break meeting,” thus South African paper, the Daily Maverick, described the talks between King Mohammed VI and President Jacob Zuma on the sidelines of the 5th AU-EU Summit in Abidjan. The paper recalls that the two heavy weights of Africa have given each other the cold shoulder against the backdrop of Pretoria’s stand […]
King Mohammed VI received on Wednesday in Abidjan President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, and the two leaders, who are both taking part in the 5th African Union-European Union Summit, talked about the future of their countries’ relations. The meeting, the first between the two leaders, was described as “warm, candid and characterized by good […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists have once again failed to practice their “political piracy” as they did in South Africa last May. Last week, it was in Latin America, precisely in Uruguay, that the Polisario attempted to incite a Uruguayan court to order the seizure of a 300-ton shipment of Moroccan phosphate. But, although Uruguay backs […]
In detaining a vessel loaded with Sahara phosphates bound for New Zealand, the ruling party in South Africa, the ANC, is reconnecting with its anachronistic populist marxist ideology, putting politics above justice in a hostile action that threatens to derail a peace process led by the UN, said the US public policy think tank, The […]