(MENAFN) On Thursday, two members of the US House of Representatives formally introduced legislation in Congress seeking to classify the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization. The proposed bill reflects escalating concerns over the group's...
Introduction Sustaining food security in North Africa,1 is a complex and evolving challenge, influenced by the region’s arid climate, limited water resources, and sparse arable land. In response, efforts to enhance food security by governments,...
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...
Introduction Morocco is a leader in the development of renewable energy among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The distinguishing feature of Morocco’s renewable energy sector is that its accelerating growth is...
Dear Fellow South African, Last week our country participated in the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Japan. This is an important forum for strengthening bilateral trade and investment between Japan and...
(MENAFN) Algeria has formally annulled a long-standing agreement that allowed French diplomatic and service passport holders to enter the country without visas, escalating a worsening dispute with Paris. The move follows what Algiers described as...
(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 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....
(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....
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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...
Executive Summary: Founded in 1973, the Polisario Front remains a UN-recognized secular liberation movement seeking independence from Moroccan rule. U.S. legislators are considering labeling the Sahrawi independence movement a terrorist group,...
Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...
The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...
Rabat – UN Envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura has directly challenged Algeria’s official narrative, refuting Algiers’ long-standing claim that it plays merely an “observer” role in the Sahara dispute. De Mistura made his remarks in an...
There has been a rapid shift in the international community towards establishing self-rule as the only viable solution to the Moroccan Sahara conflict. This marks a departure from the referendum option that Algeria has supported and the Polisario...
Solly Phetoe|Published 32 minutes ago 5min The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will be convening its Central Committee this week where delegates, from the leadership of the Federation and its Affiliates, to shop stewards and...
Rabat — An Israeli political analyst named Rafael Castro has sparked controversy with a proposal to relocate Gaza’s population in Morocco’s Western Sahara region. The analyst claimed this would offer a “realistic and sustainable solution” to the...
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...
A Polisario Front campaign targeting French energy company GEDIA has failed to stall Morocco’s growing development push in the Sahara, as new renewable energy projects in Dakhla advance with French support. The Polisario, which disputes Morocco’s...
