According to the 2025 Passport Index by Henley & Partners, Morocco's passport ranks 69th globally. The index, which relies on data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), evaluates the travel freedom of passports (...)
Ptolemy, the last king of Mauretania, which included parts of modern-day Morocco, was executed by Roman Emperor Caligula in 40 AD over a purple cloak. Following his death, Mauretania was annexed by Rome and divided into provinces, with northern (...)
In the wake of a statement by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune against the hashtag «Manich Radi», Algerian influencers residing in France, including two with irregular immigration status, issued threats against opponents of the regime and against (...)
Faced with French ambassadors, President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the strategic partnership sealed with King Mohammed VI at the end of October, elevating it to a model for the renewal of French policy in Africa. In contrast, he criticized Algeria (...)
In a significant diplomatic shift, Tunisia has aligned more closely with Algeria on the issue of Western Sahara. President Kais Saïed of Tunisia has embraced the official Algerian stance, instructing his Foreign Minister, Mohamed Ali Nafti, who has (...)
The French Foreign Minister has publicly voiced «doubts» regarding Algeria's commitment to a bilateral relations roadmap established in August 2022 during President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to Algiers. This diplomatic engagement was followed by (...)
Algeria will hold the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council from January 1 to 31, 2025. For now, Algerian diplomacy has avoided placing the Sahara issue on the list of matters it wishes to address during this month, preferring to prioritize (...)
On January 1, 2025, five new non-permanent members began their two-year term on the UN Security Council. These are Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Somalia, and Panama.
These five states hold positions close to Morocco's on the Sahara issue. Somalia, (...)
Relations between Algeria and Mali are at an all-time low. In a new clash between the two countries' diplomatic chiefs, a strongly-worded communiqué accuses Algiers of supporting terrorist groups.
Following the pattern of 2024, 2025 begins with a (...)
Algeria will continue to pursue its «Maghreb without Morocco» project in 2025. «We are currently preparing for the third summit in Tripoli at the beginning of the new year», stated the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs during a press conference (...)
On Thursday, a drone strike by the Royal Armed Forces targeted two all-terrain vehicles carrying approximately 20 members of the Polisario Front and Algerian personnel. According to a Moroccan security source, the attack resulted in one fatality—an (...)
Following restrictions on movement and trade, Algeria has imposed new restrictions on Saharawis in the Tindouf camps. They are now barred from recharging their telephone cards, reports the Forum de soutien aux autonomistes de Tindouf (FORSATIN) on (...)
In Morocco's absence, the internationally recognized Libyan government of Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba, based in Tripoli, organized a meeting of military intelligence chiefs from «Libya's neighboring countries».
The Algerian delegation, led by (...)
The Libyan Foreign Ministry, reputedly close to Algiers, has written to its Moroccan counterpart to protest against the hosting in Bouznika of a consultative meeting between the Libyan House of Representatives and the High Council of State.
The (...)
The United States has expressed its disagreement with Algeria's decision to label the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (MAK) as a terrorist group, considering that this designation is more about «political considerations than security (...)
Four French officials, detained in Burkina Faso since December 1, 2023, on charges of espionage, have been released. The French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) confirmed their release on Thursday, December 19. French President (...)
Morocco was one of the last Arab countries to adopt the printing press. The credit for bringing it to Morocco goes to Cadi Tayeb Roudani in 1864. However, shortly after its arrival, the printing press was confiscated by the Makhzen.
Getting Muslims (...)
It's now official. Morocco is interested in a permanent seat on the Security Council. This announcement was made on Saturday, December 14, in Rabat by the Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Omar Hilale.
«The Kingdom (...)
Following the integration of Saharan representatives in negotiations with the United Nations and the European Union, Morocco is strategically positioning this region as a vital crossroads in its African diplomatic policy.
Rabat no longer holds a (...)
Former Mauritanian president Ould Taya was deeply concerned about the possibility of an end to the war between Morocco and the Polisario. This is revealed in a declassified US State Department document.
Towards the end of the 1980s, Mauritania (...)
After their involvement alongside Gaddafi's forces against Libyan opposition troops in 2011, a confidential document reveals that an agreement formalizing this cooperation was signed in January 2012 in Algeria, involving representatives from (...)
Mauritania is hosting an African congress on December 10-11, focused on education and youth employment. Notably absent from the official photo was Polisario leader Brahim Ghali, following a request from the Mauritanian government for him to delegate (...)
Morocco has experienced numerous freezing winters throughout its history, with notable cold waves such as those during the Little Ice Age, in 1956, and more recently in 2016 and 2017.
Winter is breathing down our necks, with temperatures already (...)
It is the end of an era for the El-Assad family's rule in Syria. The regime, established in 1971 by the father, Hafez, has fallen. His son Bashar, in power since July 14, 2000, left the country on Saturday, heading to Russia.
This escape of the now (...)
Ties between the Ba'ath regime, which ruled Syria for decades, and Morocco were not always amicable, as Syria supported the Polisario and leftist opposition groups while aligning more closely with the Algerian regime.
On December 8, 2024, the Arab (...)