Tag: Western Sahara
Diplomatic warming between France and Morocco against the backdrop of economic partnership
Visiting Morocco, French Foreign Trade Minister Franck Riester met several Moroccan ministers and numerous economic partners, but above all announced French investments in Western Sahara. A gesture on a very…
The French Minister of Commerce visits Morocco to “renew the economic partnership”
After almost two years of crisis and a virtual breakdown in trade between the two countries, France and Morocco are resuming exchanges and official visits. Starting this Wednesday, April 3…
Warming of ties between France and Morocco: “Interests are very intertwined”
The head of French diplomacy visiting Rabat to open a new chapter in the relationship between Morocco and France. Points of tension have been accumulating in recent years between the…
President Tebboune takes stock of his four years in power
Abdelmadjid Tebboune took stock of his four years at the head of Algeria in a hundred-minute speech before the two houses of Parliament meeting in Congress, at Club des Pins,…
Washington sends diplomat to Algiers to relaunch discussions on Western Sahara
The American administration sent Joshua Harris, the Deputy Secretary of State for the Middle East, to Algeria on Thursday, December 7. With the aim of relaunching discussions about Western Sahara…
Morocco reopens its embassy in Iraq, a highly symbolic step
It was the last Maghreb country without diplomatic representation in Baghdad. This Saturday, January 28, Morocco finally reopened its embassy in Iraq after 18 years of absence. A symbolic step…
new complaints for torture against Morocco filed by a group of NGOs and lawyers
Twelve years ago, the Gdeim Izik camp, established a month earlier near Laayoune, by Sahrawi independence demonstrators, was dismantled by the Moroccan authorities. Hundreds of people were arrested. Twenty-five Sahrawi…
Diplomatic quarrel between France and Morocco, “the visa crisis is only one element”
In September 2021, Paris had decided to reduce by 50% the number of visas granted to Algeria and Morocco to put pressure on governments deemed too uncooperative in the readmission…
Mohamed VI takes stock of the “Development Program for the Southern Provinces”
On Sunday, Morocco celebrated the 47th anniversary of the Green March. On November 6, 1975, 350,000 Moroccans and 20,000 soldiers began their march towards the Spanish Sahara. They responded to…
UN envoy for Western Sahara meets Polisario Front leader
The UN envoy for Western Sahara ended a two-day visit to the refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria on Sunday. After January, this is Staffan de Mistura’s second tour of the…