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...
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The seizure of a phosphate cargo from its legitimate owner "OCP Group" is an act of political piracy which ended in a failure, said, Thursday in Rabat, government spokesperson Mustapha El Khalfi.
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Cherry Blossom vessel, carrying a 50,000-ton phosphate cargo, has finally left Port Elizabeth in South Africa, reports French-language online newspaper Telquel Tuesday.
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When the late anti-Apartheid activist Nelson Mandela emerged from prison and became South Africa’s first black president, he carefully steered the country away from the radicalism of the African National Congress's Marxist past and toward a policy which embraced moderation and responsibility in...
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The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in South Africa, dispatched Monday three of its senior leaders to Morocco to attend the 4th Crans Montana Forum, which is held March 15 to 20 in Dakhla.
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As was expected, a high court in South Africa delivered a politicized verdict giving ownership of the 50,000-ton Phosphate cargo on board bulk carrier Cherry Blossom to the Polisario separatists.
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In September 2004, upon South AfricaSouth Africa’s decision to recognize Western Sahara as an autonomous and self-determined country, the Kingdom of Morocco recalled its ambassador to Pretoria, engaging the two African giants in a series of implicit hostilities that lasted for over a decade.
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The African National Congress party frowns upon the meeting that brought both King Mohammed VI and Jacob Zuma. To justify his new policy, the South African president referred to the history and legacy of Nelson Mandela and the support he received from Morocco. Details.
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In 1962, Morocco delivered weapons for the ANC fighters. Nelson Mandela had even spent a few months in the Kingdom. Abdelkrim El Khatib played a crucial role in bringing both Hassan II and Mandela together. The two men met, for the second time, in 1994 in Rabat. While in prison for 27 years,...
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Angola, one of the last few countries in the continent to maintain ties with the Polisario separatist militias, is on course to join its voice to the bulk of African countries supporting Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its southern territories, the Sahara.
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The self proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has not been invited to attend the upcoming 5th European Union-African Union Summit in Ivory Coast, despite Algerian claims to the contrary.
