Since April 1 Morocco has launched an unprecedented diplomatic offensive to mobilize support for its position on the Western Sahara.
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New York- Today the Moroccan people are celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Green March, which took place on November 6, 1975 and saw the participation of 350,000 Moroccans from all walks of life, who marched into the Sahara to free the territory from Spanish rule. This peaceful march...
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In the midst of the global and regional economic and political turmoil, Morocco has chosen a new approach to its international relations by focusing on the South-South cooperation, and it has been obvious that Morocco is heading towards a successful expenditure in Africa and tightening its...
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Morocco’s minister-delegate in charge of the national defense administration, Abdeltif Loudyi, examined here this Monday with US secretary of the navy, Ray Mabus, various aspects of cooperation in defense matters and prospects of developing it.
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The Western Sahara, located in the southern part of Morocco, has been the object of intense litigation and military conflict since Spanish decolonization in 1975.
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With the security situation in the Sahara/Sahel still deteriorating and a disgruntled and youthful refugee population of the Polisario camps in Algeria increasingly vulnerable to the siren songs of various terrorist and criminal gangs active in the region, the Polisario is facing a theoretical...
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The FREMM multimission frigate on order for the Royal Moroccan Navy is pursuing sea trials off the French coast in preparation for delivery later this year. In June, French naval shipbuilder DCNS successfully completed a third series of trials to test the performance of the ship’s combat system...
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The Russian arms export/import agency Rosoboronexport has been promoting its non-nuclear submarine, the Amur 1650, on world markets.
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General Taoufik in the head of DRS have ordered the Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, to generate budgets, the sum of $ 300 million, which should be used to finance arms purchases for the Polisario militia .
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A few weeks ago, the U.N.
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Algeria, in the midst of its own internal power struggle, seems determined to thwart Morocco's growing diplomatic success in ending the Algerian-sponsored attempt to pry Moroccan Sahara away from the Kingdom.
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A few days before the Security Council adopts the annual resolution on the mandate of the MIUNRSO in the Sahara, the Polisario are no longer upbeat as they were last week when the US announced its intention to push for the inclusion of human rights monitoring system in the Sahara, a demand made...
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France, Morocco’s traditional protector on the U.N. Security Council, is unlikely to use its veto to block a U.S. proposal to have U.N. peacekeepers monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, envoys said.
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US troops are to redeploy from Morocco after Rabat cancelled annual war games in the kingdom, the US army said Wednesday, amid sharp disagreement over plans for a UN mission in the Sahara.
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This is a high-level diplomatic deployment that Rabat has operated since last Tuesday, April 16, to world capitals to counter U.S. plans to align with the position of the Algerian regime on the Sahara issue.
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The United States is in an urgent need to understand the real significance of Human Rights. No, human rights do not mean a way to control the others. No, human rights do not mean a lie to deviate people from reality.
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The initiative seeking to expand the UN Sahara mission (MINURSO) mandate risks to stall the ongoing discussions between Morocco and the UN secretary general personal envoy for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, said on Tuesday speaker of the Chamber of advisors, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah.
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Morocco on Tuesday warned of “harmful consequences” for regional stability from US-backed plans to broaden the mandate of the UN mission in the disputed Sahara to probe human rights abuses, AFP reported.
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Following the announcement made last Friday by the US Embassy that Washington to push for the inclusion of a human right monitoring mechanism in the MINURSO mandate in the Sahara, Morocco decided to cancel the a annual African Lion exercise between Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces and the U.S.
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Attempting to denature the mandate of MINURSO in the Sahara , the question of the credibility of the UN and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who was engaged to King Mohammed VI, that no change would affect the terms of the UN mission in the Sahara.
