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 (...)
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 (...)
«Morocco hopes that the recent developments in Syria will bring stability, fulfill the aspirations of the Syrian people, and offer a better future for the country» said Morocco's Foreign Minister on Monday, marking the kingdom's first official (...)
On Friday, Moroccan inventor Fouad Faqiri won the gold medal at the Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF), held in the South Korean capital from November 27 to 30.
During the event, Faqiri also received an honorary award from «Citizen (...)
Following the Security Council's vote on the latest Sahara resolution, Algeria's permanent representative to the UN, Amar Bendjama, delivered a pointed critique of the United States. Algeria argued that «the penholder (the USA) deliberately ignored» (...)
On Monday, October 28, the UN Security Council did not hold the meeting scheduled at Algeria's request to continue its closed-door review of the U.S. draft resolution on the Western Sahara issue. «Algeria withdrew its request to organize a new round (...)
The Biden administration's draft resolution on the Sahara issue has been reviewed by the «Club of Friends of Western Sahara» and is now being discussed by the UN Security Council, with Algeria unsuccessfully pushing for amendments on human rights (...)
At the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, September 30, Algeria called for the «decolonization of Western Sahara», according to an official media source. The Algerian Foreign Minister stated, «The colonization of this (...)
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has sparked anger among Polisario supporters. In audio messages consulted by Yabiladi, they strongly criticize the 10 seconds the head of state dedicated to the Sahara issue during his speech at (...)
Spain's National Court has rejected an urgent request to cancel the expulsion of a Sahrawi activist detained at Madrid's Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas airport. The activist, who is still in one of the asylum rooms at the airport, requested (...)
On Tuesday, September 24, a 22-year-old Moroccan national was arrested at the Geneva train station in Switzerland for his alleged involvement in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student in France. The victim's body was found lifeless in the Bois (...)
Rachid Talbi Alami, Speaker of Morocco's House of Representatives, met with South Africa's National Assembly Speaker Angela Thokozile Didiza to discuss enhancing bilateral cooperation. While Didiza expressed interest in deepening ties, relations (...)
Spain's National Court has ruled that poverty in Morocco does not qualify as grounds for asylum, rejecting an appeal from a Moroccan man who entered Ceuta by swimming during the May 2021 migration crisis.
The court stated that «alleged poverty or (...)
Mauritania declined an invitation from the Polisario to a conference titled «From occupation to self-determination: a comparison between Western Sahara and Palestine», reveals a media outlet in Nouakchott. The meeting, organized on September 10 in (...)
The Polisario continues to exploit the Palestinian issue to support its cause. With backing from the «Geneva Group», which includes Algeria, South Africa, and Namibia, the Front organized a conference on the sidelines of the 57th session of the UN (...)
A Royal Armed Forces (FAR) drone struck two Polisario vehicles yesterday near the border with Mauritania. According to a Moroccan source close to the matter, the provisional toll from the strike indicates that two members of the Front's militias (...)
At the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council, countries that support Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara made their voices heard. In a statement read yesterday at a session of the HRC on behalf of 40 States, the Ambassador of the Dominican (...)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, once again ignored the positions of the Polisario during the opening of the 57th ordinary session of the Human Rights Council, being held from September 9 to October 11 in Geneva. (...)
After an initial acquittal, Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with one year to be served, for the rape of Brigitte (a pseudonym) in 2008. On Tuesday, the Criminal Appeal and Review Chamber issued its (...)
وجه مدافعون عن حقوق الإنسان، على هامش أشغال الدورة ال56 لمجلس حقوق الإنسان بجنيف، نداء عاجلا لرفع الحصار والسماح بالوصول إلى مخيمات تندوف بالجنوب الغربي للجزائر، وذلك في ظل تردي الأوضاع الحقوقية بشكل غير مسبوق في مخيمات تندوف على الأراضي الجزائرية، (...)
Sixteen West African crocodiles, reared at Lausanne's Aquatis Aquarium, were transported to Morocco on Wednesday, June 12, to begin a gradual reintroduction into their natural environment.
According to the Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA, the young (...)
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs affirmed that no official representation of the Polisario Front exists either at the United Nations Office at Geneva or with the Federal Council (Swiss government).
In a verbal note addressed to the (...)
The UN Committee on Decolonization (C-24) is holding a new session from May 14 to 16 in Caracas, Venezuela. The Moroccan delegation, led by the kingdom's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Omar Hilale, includes two Sahrawi elected (...)
The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Daren Tang, met, Tuesday, with Morocco's Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, to discuss intellectual property's role in safeguarding (...)
The Polisario has welcomed Staffan de Mistura's visit to Moscow on Monday, March 11th. «Russia wants to relaunch the political settlement process, based on UN resolutions and its Charter. It has always opposed the arbitrary and undemocratic manner, (...)