In 2007, shortly after Morocco tabled its initiative for autonomy to resolve the dispute in Western Sahara, David Welch, at that time the Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle...
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The Holy See's position on the Sahara issue "has not changed," said the Vatican's official representation in Morocco.
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I have heard a lot of oddly crazy options over the last 18 months about the future of MINURSO, the United Nations peacekeeping mission for Western Sahara. I say oddly crazy because some of them I heard directly from acknowledged experts on North African affairs.
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At the end of April, the Security Council surprised many observers by renewing the MINURSO mandate for only six months rather than a year, as had been the usual practice over the last decade. That raised a number of questions: Why the change? What did it hope to accomplish?
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Respect for territorial integrity of member states is a sine qua non for achieving the long-sought integration of the Maghreb Union (AMU), Morocco’s Lower House Speaker Habib El Malki told AMU’s Secretary General Taieb Baccouche.
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With impending visits to the region scheduled by UN Personal Envoy Kohler and US Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan, the Moroccan American Center for Policy (MACP) recently convened an informal discussion of circumstances in Morocco’s southern Saharan provinces.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives Habib El Malki was received, Wednesday in Belgrade, by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who reaffirmed his country’s support for Morocco’s territorial integrity.
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I keep having to ask myself, “what is it that Polisario really wants?” I know what Algeria really wants. They want the Western Sahara issue to drag on forever, all the better to keep poking Morocco in the eye with it. And in that project, Polisario is their ever ready stick.
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IRAN's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps is training and arming the Polisario Front, sparking fear and concern of Great Britain, wrote British "Daily Express".
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Iran opens up new front in global battle against Western allies by funding rebel group in North Africa, wrote British daily "The Sun".
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The Hezbollah-Polisario collusion is still making international headlines following Morocco’s decision to cut ties with Iran. An op-ed in the Washington-based political newspaper, The Hill, wrote that the collaboration between Polisario and Hezbollah unveils Iranian toxic” strategy.
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The decision of Morocco to sever its diplomatic relations with Iran matches the gravity of acts by Hezbollah, which is supported by this country and threatens the security of the Kingdom, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, assuring that Morocco, which has irrefutable evidence, would not have...
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Iran’s regional ambitions in the Middle East from Syria and Lebanon to Yemen are well-known. What is new is that Tehran is widening the geographic scope of its expansionism into North Africa as well.
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Morocco cannot afford a diplomatic confrontation with the U.N. veto yielding Russia. Nonetheless, the two nations should be able to talk frankly about issues of national interests without damaging their friendship.
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Speaker of the Arab Parliament Mechaal Ben Fahm Al-Selmi reiterated, on Wednesday in Rabat, the body's support for Morocco against any meddling in its domestic affairs or threat to its sovereignty, security and stability.
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While a host of pundits and political commentators have presented the recent Rabat-Tehran rupture as multilayered, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin believes that the real reason can be attributed to a far simpler cause: differences in ideology.
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While diplomats debate what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s revelations of a secret Iranian nuclear archives mean, 2,500 miles away another press conference dropped another surprising bombshell alleging Iranian malfeasance.
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After a few last minute grumbles from Russia and a few meaningless word adjustments, the UN Security Council has voted approval of a new mandate for MINURSO, the Western Sahara peacekeeping mission, now into its 27th year of a so far fruitless search to find some compromise political solution to...
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The Kingdom of Morocco has decided to break off its relations with Iran because of the military support of its ally the Hezbollah movement for the "polisario", announced Tuesday minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita.
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Polisairo leadership and proponents have often claimed to represent the population of the Sahara, despite the fact that Sahrawis have never voted for the separatist militia neither in the Tindouf camps nor in the Sahara provinces, which usually register higher turnout in Morocco’s local and...
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There is a strong feeling among Sahrawi refugees, Polisario’ s military and civilian officials, and pro-independence groups that Algerians started growing restless and annoyed with the presence of their Sahrawi “guests” on their soil. Has the Polisario overstayed the Boumediene welocome?