(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...
Thirty years ago, Jeff Greenwald became unenchanted with airplanes. As an established travel writer who crisscrossed the globe on assignment for a variety of magazines, he had already logged more miles than Magellan, Marco Polo and Christopher...
Rabat – A senior Polisario member has stirred renewed alarm after issuing fresh terror threats against Morocco. Mansur Omar, a senior member of the Polisario leadership, threatened the international community, especially Morocco, that the...
Rabat – France has renewed its steadfast support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara. French ambassador to Morocco Christophe Lecourtier renewed his country’s position in a speech during the opening of a...
Christophe Gleizes believed he was getting closer to the truth. For years, he had investigated the mysterious death of a soccer player killed just feet from the field after a game in northern Algeria in 2014. The Algerian government claimed that...
The Spanish withdrawal and the Green March Funding and professionalisation of solidarity Symbiotic relationship with the Polisario Inconsistencies in the Sahrawi solidarity movement The case of Carmelo Ramírez and reactions Internal debates and...
In an inspiring tale of adventure and determination, Petek Philippe, a Swiss man has reached an incredible milestone by visiting 197 countries. Philippe has been chronicling his travels on his Instagram page, ‘ROAD TO 197’. In September, he posted...
There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: the Zionists kill Palestinians with Arab money and now intend to rebuild Gaza with funds from the very same source. This brutal contradiction encapsulates more than seven decades of political...
Marrakech – Few acts could carry greater symbolic weight than the display of a Polisario/ self-styled Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) flag in the Spanish-administered city of Melilla, a city already entangled in the crosscurrents of...
High unemployment, inflation, lack of basic services and bad governance are driving young people into the streets Geostrategic Analysis In the last remaining monarchy in North Africa, the Kingdom of Morocco, has been hit with mass demonstrations...
The U.N. envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, is expected to arrive Saturday in Laayoune as part of a regional tour ahead of the U.N. Security Council’s October deliberations on the decades-long dispute, a U.N. source told Hespress AR. De...
