Moroccan King Calls for Revival of the Arab Maghreb Union

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has called for the “revival” of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) which celebrates its 21st anniversary surrounded in tension between Morocco and Algeria amid the 35-year old Sahara crisis. “The revival of the UMA is a response...

Morocco Urges United Nations to Get Algeria Involved in Resolving Sahara Conflict

Morocco has called on the United Nations to get Algeria to take “full, active and constructive responsibility” to find a solution to the 34-year old Western Sahara issue. Time is “ripe for the United Nations and countries concerned with...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco Speaks in Favor of His Country’s Sahara Autonomy Plan

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has spoken in favor of his country’s Sahara autonomy plan which he termed as a “basis” for the UN-backed negotiation process, at the African local governments’ summit “AFRICITIES” which opened in Marrakesh...

Morocco Accuses Algeria And the Polisario Front of Blocking Sahara Talks

Morocco has accused Algeria and the Polisario Front of blocking the informal negotiations that should lead to the fifth round of talks on Western Sahara, backed by the UN since June 2007. Rabat’s response to the current stalemate led to a meeting between...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI Reveals Integrated Plan for West Sahara

Moroccan King Mohammed VI has announced that Western Sahara, which passed to Moroccan sovereignty in 1975, would be the priority of the country’s renationalisation process via an integrated plan which is expected to usher in a new chapter. The plan...

Morgan Tsvangirai Urges African Union to Find ‘peaceful Settlement’ for Sahara Conflict

Prime Minister-designate of Zimbabwe Morgan Tsvangirai has called on the African Union (AU) to work towards finding a “peaceful settlement” to the 33-year old Sahara conflict.

Morocco Says Talks with UN on Western Sahara “important And Fruitful”

Morocco said on Tuesday that it had “important and fruitful” talks with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the developments of the 33-year old Western Sahara issue at the at the UN headquarters in New York.

Malawi has Decided to Withdraw Its Recognition of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic

Malawi decided on Tuesday to withdraw its recognition of the “Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic” (SADR), which the Polisario Front separatists proclaimed as an independent state in 1976, in Algeria. The Malawi Foreign Affairs minister Joyce...

US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice Calls for Morocco And Algeria to Normalize Their Relations

US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has called for Morocco and Algeria to normalize their relations to take up their “challenges” facing them in the Maghreb. Rice made her appeal during a joint press briefing with her Moroccan counterpart,...