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Western Sahara Bleeds Under the Complicit Silence of the UN and Spain

Western Sahara Bleeds Under the Complicit Silence of the UN and Spain

The mother of the martyr Mohamed Lamine Haddi has done yesterday a month of hunger strike in front of the Moroccan consulate in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria under the indifference of the UN. Her health is consumed slowly without any gesture of compassion comes from neither Rabat, nor Madrid, nor New York. MINURSO, United […]

AU Call UN to Set Date for Self-Determination Referendum

AU Call UN to Set Date for Self-Determination Referendum

The Conference of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) called on, in decision adopted on Monday at the AU summit in Johannesburg, the Un General Assembly to “set a date for holding the self-determination referendum of the people of Western Sahara and to protect its integrity.” Recalling the legal opinion […]

Sahrawi Struggle – ‘Horrors of Colonialism From Another Age’

Sahrawi Struggle – ‘Horrors of Colonialism From Another Age’

Western Sahara continues to suffer from the “horrors of colonialism from another age,” Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal stressed Sunday in Johannesburg, adding the acceleration of the decolonization of this territory needs the mobilization of efforts. “Finally, I would like to talk about the last of decolonization in Africa, namely the territory of Western Sahara, which […]

Ban Convinced of Resumption of Negotiations Between Sahrawis and Moroccans

Ban Convinced of Resumption of Negotiations Between Sahrawis and Moroccans

The Chief of Staff of the United Nations Secretary General, Susana Malcorra, said Saturday in the Wilaya of Smara, refugee camps, that her visit explains the “firm conviction” of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, in the resumption of the negotiating process between the two parties in conflict, the Polisario Front and Morocco. “My […]

Multiple Agreements Signed during King Mohammed VI’s Visit to Four Countries

Multiple Agreements Signed during King Mohammed VI’s Visit to Four Countries

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI continued his economic diplomacy in Africa these past weeks visiting Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Gabon. The most remarkable feature of these visits is the down-to-earth bilateral projects agreed to, which wed Moroccan expertise and resources with specific human and economic development goals in each country. Morocco is not only the […]

Geneva Show to Boost Global Appetite for African Fashion

Geneva Show to Boost Global Appetite for African Fashion

Africa’s indigenous creativity in fashion goods and services is something to be discovered and promoted at this year’s Africa Fashion Show Geneva (AFSG). The annual event promotes, showcases and celebrates the richness and diversity of Africa’s cultural heritage driven by the fashion industry and its talents. The creative textile and clothing industry is a multi-billion […]

Prime Minister of Morocco hits Jennifer Lopez with ‘sexually suggestive’ lawsuit

Prime Minister of Morocco hits Jennifer Lopez with ‘sexually suggestive’ lawsuit

Jennifer Lopez has become the subject of an investigation ordered by the Prime Minister of Morocco. Moroccan PM Abdelilah Benkirane called for the probe after an educational group sued the singer over her May 29 performance broadcast on public television. Benkirane said the broadcast of the concert on the 2M public network was a ‘serious […]

Boy caught being smuggled into Spain inside a suitcase reunited with his mother

Boy caught being smuggled into Spain inside a suitcase reunited with his mother

An eight-year-old African boy caught being smuggled into Spain in a suitcase last month has finally been reunited with his mother. Duo Ouattara, aged eight, was locked in a suitcase as part of a plan to smuggle him into Spain.The tragic pictures shocked people around the world, showing the desperation of migrants trying to enter […]

Morocco won 2010 FIFA World Cup vote, not South Africa

Morocco won 2010 FIFA World Cup vote, not South Africa

Morocco won the voting process to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, not eventual host South Africa, and both countries offered bribes to secure votes, according to a report in The Sunday Times. The newspaper released tapes supporting the allegations that bribes were offered prior to the vote. In the tapes, FIFA executive committee member […]

2,000 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya.

2,000 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya.

European warships and coast guard vessels have rescued more than 2,000 migrants off the coast of Libya.The Malta-based, Migrant Offshore Aid Station, said it co-ordinated the operation along with Italian, Irish and German ships.Italy’s coastguard could not confirm the numbers, but said it was trying to help around a dozen other vessels.HMS Bulwark, a British […]

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