North Africa

Algiers has decided to recall its ambassador to Rabat for consultation. While the two countries are in conflict with the issue of Western Sahara, Algeria has not at all appreciated the Moroccan ambassador's withdrawal from the UN on the right of self-determination for the Kabyle people. It was during a virtual meeting with…

President Joe Biden's administration has transferred its first prison from the US military base at Guantanamo: a Moroccan who has been repatriated, the Pentagon announced on Monday (July 19). A way for the tenant in the White House to take over Barack Obama's unfinished work. "The Ministry of Defense announced today the…

It is one of the biggest spy scandals of the decade, revealed by fifteen international media. At least 50,000 people are monitored by a dozen states with Israeli software. Pegasus lets you take control of a phone, providing access to the entire contents of the device as well as its microphone and camera. Among the user countries, Morocco.…

Tensions are rising between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia as the latter is determined to begin the second phase of filling the Great Renaissance Dam (GERD) upstream of the Blue Nile in July. In the absence of a binding agreement, Khartoum and Cairo sent a letter to the UN Security Council condemning a unilateral decision that would jeopardize "peace and stability in the region". Sudan, on the front lines,…

Human rights activists, journalists and opponents around the world have been spied on by software developed by an Israeli company, according to a study published in several media outlets on Sunday. NSO Group spyware Pegasus, if inserted into a smartphone, can retrieve messages, photos, contacts and even listen to calls from the…

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

The Egyptian club Al Ahly won 3-0 in the final of the Champions League against the South African formation of Kaizer Chiefs FC, this Saturday 17 July at the Mohammed-V stadium in Casablanca. This is the tenth coronation of the "Red Devils" in the competition and the third for their coach Pitso Mosimane. "I am a South African…

The Executive Committee of the African Football Confederation (ComEx) (ComF), which met on 16 July 2021 in Morocco, reaffirmed the existence of a Super League project bringing together the best clubs on the continent. CAF ExCom has also shown its support for a World Cup that is held every two years. The Champions League, the…

In Morocco, journalist Soulaïmane Raissouni continues, imprisoned since May 25, 2020 and sentenced last week to five years in prison for sexual assault, hunger. His health is deteriorating. For 100 days he has stopped eating. Soulaïmane Raissouni's relatives and lawyersare very worried. "Today we are afraid for our lives.…

In a unanimous statement on Thursday, with several ministers present, members of the Security Council called on the Libyan parties to make progress in meeting the December deadline. Encouraging, they want to believe in possible progress. But their positions were at odds with those of the main actors invited to inform them in New York.…