A cargo ship, the World Cup and the wrangle over Western Sahara are factors in a bizarre face-off between Africa’s powerhouse nations, SA and Morocco, writes Ranjeni Munusamy
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Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which attended a ministerial conference on the African Union's role in supporting the UN-led political process in Marrakech, defended their decision after snubbing a parallel meeting held in South Africa to support the Polisario...
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The chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s governing political party, is angry at Morocco for organizing a parallel conference as Pretoria hosts the Southern African Development Community Development Community (SADC) solidarity meeting on Western Sahara.
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The Kingdom of Morocco hosts the African Ministerial Conference on African Union (AU) support to the United Nations political process on the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, on Monday in Marrakech, says the ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
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I was flabbergasted when I read Mr.
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Morocco will hold an African conference at the foreign ministers’ level to show support for the UN process in the Sahara on March 25 in Marrakech.
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A specialized medical campaign for the benefit of sub-Saharans living in Dakhla was launched, on Friday, on the sidelines of the 5th Crans Montana Forum, held on March 14-17 under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI.
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The city of Dakhla, the Pearl of Southern Morocco, is hosting for the 5th consecutive year in a row the Crans Montana Forum from March 14 to 17 under the theme: “Building together a powerful & modern Africa dedicated to its Youth”.
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South Africa’s foreign policy is my moral compass. Whatever it is vociferously for, I am instinctively against. This is not only down to its ambivalence towards human rights abuses and electoral niceties (which it once deemed to make a policy lodestar) over at least two decades in Zimbabwe, but...
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During the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), held from the 25th of February to the 22nd of March, South Africa launched a campaign to defend the Polisario.
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The influential South-African newspaper ‘Daily Maverick’ criticized on Tuesday South Africa’s position on Morocco’s territorial integrity, noting that “Pretoria still prefers to view the issue through a Cold War lens.”
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South Africa and Namibia are co-hosting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) solidarity conference on Western Sahara from the 25th to the 26th of March, announced South Africa’s Foreign Minister Lindiwe Sisulu in an address made public on Wednesday.
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In South Africa, General elections will be held in May to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province and will be followed by presidential elections.
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Moroccan diplomacy has a lot of work to do at a time when South Africa, Morocco’s archenemy in the Sahara issue, is preparing to make its entry into the UN Security Council in January 2019, as a non-permanent member.
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The participation of the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI) in the first African forum on vocational training hosted by the city of Dakhla on Friday and Saturday was crowned by the signing of six cooperation agreements.
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Morocco’s southern provinces are the "ideal hub" to the African continent, said, Saturday in Laayoune, chairman of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Morocco (CFCIM), Philippe-Edern Klein.
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South Sudanese Foreign Minister Nhial Deng Nhial reiterated that his country does not recognize the Algerian-backed separatist SADR entity, saying that South Sudan’s President had sent a letter in this regard to King Mohammed VI.
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Unlike the African Union-European Union summit in November 2017, the Polisario will not be attending the China-Africa summit. The latter will be held Monday in Beijing and will be attended by a number of African leaders.
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Morocco and Angola are strengthening diplomatic relations which have been stagnating for years. The Southern African nation has been one of the countries that supported the Polisario Front in the past.
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South Africa’s election to the UN Security Council is a chance for the rainbow country to bridge the gap between the Council and the African Union but its support for the separatist SADR entity puts Pretoria at odds with leading African countries, The Globe and Mail, a South African paper, said...
