Morocco is tightening control over its southern borders with state-of-the-art technology to keep the Sahara and the whole country at bay from threats posed by terrorist groups and organized crime networks, the Moroccan press reported.
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Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane.
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Speaking during an election rally, Wednesday, Mauritania’s former Defence Minister Mohamed Ould Ghazounai said that he is against the idea of granting Mauritanian citizenship to Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps. Ould Ghazouani is running for presidential elections, scheduled for June 22.
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Interviewed by Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan, the Mauritanian president said that «the West, the United States and Europe do not want a state separating Mauritania from Morocco». «Everything you hear, outside this framework, is wrong», he said, adopting a position that was voiced in...
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Only words but no action. That sums Algeria’s attitude towards any initiative to reinvigorate the Maghreb.
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Sahrawis living in the Tindouf camps participated in the Mauritanian elections, held Friday 31st of August. The same thing applies for the elections in Algeria.
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Mauritanian media sources reported that Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps, who work as smugglers, kidnapped, Sunday, the son of a Mauritanian mayor.
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After Morocco, which severed ties with Iran over its support for separatists, Mauritanian authorities are complaining of the meddling of Iranian embassy which they accuse of spreading Shiism among the Sunni population.
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A Spanish military delegation has visited Mauritania. Yesterday, its official news agency AMI announced that the Spanish army chief, Chief of the Defense Staff Fernando Alejandro Martinez, was received in Nouakchott by the Mauritanian Minister of Defense Diallo Mamadou Bathia.
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Mauritanian authorities have refused entry to a Moroccan businessman and former Mauritanian official who used to raise funds for the Polisario Front. The denial comes amid speculation of tension between the North African neighbors.
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Morocco and Mauritania have not been in good terms since the first term of the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz. This is confirmed through the fact that the neighboring country has not appointed an ambassador in Rabat since the retirement of Mohamed Ould Mouaouia in 2012. With the...
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The Mauritanian army arrested this week some men and several weapons on board a four-wheel vehicle near Mauritania’s North-eastern borders with Algeria.
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A new attempt to embezzle humanitarian aid by the Polisario separatists has been foiled in north-eastern Mauritania where large amounts of foodstuff and medicines were seized, Moroccan daily Al Massae reported.
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Taeib Fassi Fihri, the advisor to King Mohammed VI, has said that Hamid Chabat’s statement about the territorial integrity of Mauritania created problems for the Moroccan diplomats to the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
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Mauritania has announced that it will vote in favor of Morocco’s return to the African Union, local media said.
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Mauritanian leaders who have been shunned by Morocco for a long time seem to close their eyes on the activities of the Polisario’s armed militiamen that wander in Mauritanian territory unbothered and go back to the demilitarized locality of Lagouira at the extreme northwest of the country.
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At the end of the day, King Mohammed VI chose the right time and the right place to answer Mauritania’s diplomatic provocation.
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The security and customs services led, on Aug. 14, clean-up operations in the region of Gargarate, south of Morocco, to end activities related to smuggling and illegal trade, said on Tuesday a statement by the wilaya of the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region.
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Mauritanian highest authorities have been multiplying provocative and hostile acts towards their Moroccan neighbor.
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Doomed to a plight that lasted longer than he and his family could bear, Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Moloud continues his forced exile in Mauritania while his family is stuck in the Sahraoui Camps in Tindouf on the Algerian territory.
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Predictions made years ago by many a pundit about the Tindouf-based separatists’ schemes to lay hand on the drug trafficking market in the Sahel-Sahara region have been confirmed once and again, and most recently by a Mauritanian official.