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Gen. Stephen Townsend, Chief of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has described Morocco as a “strong” partner of the United States in counterterrorism, a major military ally, and as a regional leader in security. He made the remarks at a press briefing held Thursday in Rabat at the end of his visit to the North […]
U.S. army General, Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, met separately on Thursday in Rabat with Lt. General, the Inspector General of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces (FAR) Abdelfattah Louarak and with Minister Delegate for the National Defense Abdellatif Loudiy. A press release issued by the General Staff of FAR says the Moroccan-US […]
The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]
Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to US President Donald Trump, has praised Morocco’s efforts to ensure equality between women and men in terms of inheritance. “We applaud the Moroccan government for this important step towards the adoption of inheritance law amendments, and look forward to supporting their full implementation,” Ivanka Trump said on her twitter […]
Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz had then revealed that Western countries simply do not want the establishment […]
The US “Prosper Africa” program, designed by the Trump Administration, to replace the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), would be operational by 2025. Prosper Africa aligns with the Trump administration’s Africa strategy, introduced by National Security Adviser John Bolton last December. It aims to promote prosperity, security, and stability in US-Africa relations, and […]
The non-settlement of the Sahara issue poses a threat for peace and stability in the Sahara-Sahel region and US policymakers are fully aware of the urgency to settle the regional conflict, notes the Wall Street Journal in a long article published Sunday. The Polisario is a Marxist group linked to regional terrorism, so settling the […]
The United States made it clear that independence is not an option for settling the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, writes the US widely-circulated daily, The Wall Street Journal. In a story by its special envoy Dion Nissenbaum published Sunday, the US daily notes that US officials who are closely following discussions on the Sahara […]
Despite the recent efforts to restore democratic process in Sudan, the United States said it still needs to resolve long-standing issues with Sudan before it can consider removing the East African nation from its list of states sponsors of terrorism. “There’s a number of things we’re (United States) looking forward to engaging with a […]
Talks between African and US officials to review the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) free-trade deal ended Thursday in Côte d’Ivoire with no major deal. The African Growth and Opportunity Act, which in 2015 was extended to 2025, provides tariff-free access on 6,500 products from 39 countries, ranging from oil and agricultural goods […]