(MENAFN) Algeria has canceled a longstanding visa exemption agreement for French diplomats and service passport holders, responding to what it described as France’s “provocation, intimidation, and bargaining” in an escalating diplomatic dispute....
This week, US President Donald Trump makes his inaugural visit to the Middle East since the start of his second term, traveling to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates on May 13-16. Amid the heightened focus on US policy toward the...
(MENAFN) Algeria has annulled a ten-year-old pact that allowed French diplomatic and service passport holders to travel without visas. This move is a response to what Algeria described as France’s “provocation, intimidation, and bargaining” amid...
(MENAFN) Algeria has canceled a decade-old visa-free travel agreement for French diplomatic and service passport holders, responding to what it described as France’s “provocation, intimidation, and bargaining” amid worsening bilateral relations....
Honourable House Chairperson, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Moraka, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Director-General Zane Dangor and Members of the South African...
Africa: Implementing Agenda 2063 Our foreign policy is an extension of our domestic imperatives on human rights and resolving the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment. Through attracting Foreign Direct Investment, we intend to...
Honourable Speaker / House Chair, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Botes, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Senior Officials of DIRCO led by Director-General Zane...
SLOVENIA, April 18 - During Minister Fajon's visit to Rabat last year, the two ministers signed the Joint Declaration on further strengthening cooperation between the two countries. Friendly relations between Slovenia and Morocco have recently...
(MENAFN) French President Emmanuel Macron and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune held a lengthy and candid phone conversation to address rising tensions and strained relations between their countries, the Élysée Palace announced Monday. The...
Introduction The Middle East and North Africa has the potential to become the world’s largest renewable energy-producing region. Solar energy is MENA’s most abundant renewable energy resource. The Sahara Desert, which covers the majority of North...
Issue Brief September 15, 2025 • 8:00 am ET Print this page The Abraham Accords at five By Allison Minor, Daniel B. Shapiro, Amir Hayek, Loay Alshareef, Ahmed Khuzaie, Sarah Zaaimi Perspectives from Five years ago, the announcements that the...
The current influx of Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 cargoes to China in a little over 10 days has cut Asian spot LNG prices, but the delivery is slated to slow as passage through the Northern Sea Route to conventional LNG tankers is set to close in about...
A Review of Elham Fakhro, The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization (Columbia University Press, 2024) On September 15, 2020, US President Donald Trump was joined at the White House by Israeli Prime Minister...
The French town of Dreux considers ignoring a ruling in the French courts and to engage with a controversial energy operation in occupied Western Sahara. A company partly owned by the French town of Dreux is seeking opportunities to engage with...
Rabat – As foreign companies continue to explore opportunities in Morocco’s southern provinces, the separatist Polisario Front and its dwindling cohort of global advocates are growing desperate to halt this momentum before it gathers more steam....
Iran and its Resistance Axis suffered heavy blows since October 7, 2023: Syria’s Assad regime lost, Hezbollah decimated, the Houthis degraded, and Hamas annihilated. Yet the Axis is not shrinking. Its latest addition is the Polisario Front, which...
Moroccan authorities on Sunday barred two foreign activists supportive of the separatist Polisario Front from entering the city of Laayoune, citing national sovereignty and legal entry requirements for foreigners. The two women, Ilaf Hassan Qasim,...
A Moroccan security analyst says decades of attacks carried out by the Polisario Front meet international criteria for classifying the group as a terrorist organization. Hassan Ramo, an expert with the National Observatory for Strategic Studies,...
Emmanuel Macron is not a resentful man. While Rabat likely had his phone tapped using Israeli software Pegasus during his first term, the French president has decided to stake everything on Morocco in an attempt to preserve a minimum French...
In the grand, often-recalcitrant theater of Middle East diplomacy, the Abraham Accords of 2020 landed like a paradigm-shifting third act. Brokered under the bright lights of a White House lawn, the normalization agreements between Israel and the...
