Moroccan parliamentarian Mohamed El Hidaoui, sentenced for embezzlement over tickets destined for the country's fans in last year's World Cup in Qatar, has lost his seat at the parliament. The decision was made public, Tuesday December 26, by the country’s Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court was seized by Thami Lmsekki, a politician and member of the Democratic and Social Movement Party. Lmsekki participated to the September 2021 general elections alongside National Rally of
Algeria wants to reconcile with Sahel countries. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received yesterday in Algiers his Nigerien counterpart, Bakary Yaou Sangaré. «The two ministers evaluated cooperative relations between the two countries in different areas, notably the trans-Saharan road, including its role in the development in the Sahel», indicates the Algerian Foreign Ministry in a press release. Attaf and Sangaré «reviewed the developments
Morocco is ready to engage in a trade and security deal with the United Kingdom, which plans to double trade with Africa. A potential Brexit trade and security deal with the North African Kingdom could «open massive opportunities from the entire African continent», wrote Daily Express on Tuesday. The move has reportedly been celebrated by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the daily reported. Johnson would have told friends that the increase trend of trade with Morocco
The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs met, Tuesday, December 26 in Rabat, with the Senior Presidential Advisor on Middle East Affairs, Mohamed Ahmed Kisuule, who delivered a message to King Mohammed VI from the President of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni. The day before, the Foreign Minister received «Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, who came to present a copy of his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uganda to HM King Mohammed
They are love letters that, unfortunately, never made it to their destination, Morocco. Filled with love and affection, they were carefully written by Spanish women who were madly in love with Moroccan men in the middle of the Spanish colonization of northern Morocco. Sent between the 1930s and the 1950s, these letters attested to forbidden relationships between Spanish women and Moroccan soldiers deployed to fight alongside Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War. The mails were
No official celebrations of the three-year anniversary of the signing of the normalization agreement between Morocco and Israel have taken place this year. Instead, thousands have marched in Morocco since the start of the war on Gaza to demand the end of normalization with Israel.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune reaffirmed, yesterday in a long speech delivered before both Houses of Parliament, his country's «unwavering support» for the Polisario. The Head of State called the matter a «national cause», the same as that of Palestine. The two matters will be the pillars of Algeria’s foreign policy during its mandate at the UN Security Council, expected to start on January 1, 2024 and last until December 31, 2025. To
The Moroccan Minister of Health has reassured Moroccans regarding the spread of the new JN.1 coronavirus strain. Khalid Ait Taleb said yesterday during a weekly session at the House of Representatives that the World Health Organization (WHO) had said that «the seriousness of the new variant, the speed of its spread, and even its morbidity rate have not been proven yet». «There is no need to panic», he argued. The minister reminded MPs that his department
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune chaired a council of ministers on Sunday, December 24. The Head of State ordered the Prime Minister, Nadir Larbaoui, to launch an «in-depth study, for the creation of a free trade zone» with Mauritania. The project will help «contribute to the diversification of economic activities and the creation of a dynamic in the region, particularly along the borders between Algeria and Mauritania», reads a press release by the presidency of
The Polisario has commented on the meeting organized on December 23 in Marrakech, and attended by Morocco and Sahel countries. «What Morocco is doing in the Sahel is some sort of maneuver intended to deceive some African countries and create more instability and tensions in the region (…) A maneuver which aims to overshadow the successes of the Algerian approach to the Sahel», a senior Polisario member told Algerian media. «The Atlantic is a region at
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