• Ramón Franco, who was in the Air Force at the time of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, said: "Our little colonies -referring to the small outposts in the Moroccan shores, the Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea- don't need a strong navy made up of large and numerous units. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a letter made public on March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez endorsed a Moroccan plan of autonomy for Western Sahara, a clear break with Madrid's long-established policy that the disputed territory's status should be decided by a referendum. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This led to a reported shortage of gas in both Morocco and also Spain, which had previously received gas supplies through the Gazoduc Maghreb Europe (GME) pipeline, despite claims made by Moroccan officials that the move would have little impact. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Western Sahara is home to the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the territory. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • In 1991, Moroccan forces and Sahrawi rebels agreed on a UN-brokered truce and a referendum to settle the status of Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • A survey by the Moroccan news website Le Desk and the international media freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has identified the Moroccan media sector's leading players and their interests outside the media. (rsf.org)
  • Then came normalization between Morocco and Israel, at the expense of U.S. recognition of Moroccan claims to Western Sahara. (nationofchange.org)
  • The Moroccan occupation of most of SADR's territory since 1975 has been receiving increasing Western support, despite a consensus in international law that Morocco has no legitimate territorial claims over SADR, whose right to self-determination is well-recognized. (towardfreedom.org)
  • Nevertheless, in late 2020, then-U.S. President Donald Trump had announced his decision to open a consulate in occupied Western Sahara, in effect recognizing it as Moroccan sovereign territory. (towardfreedom.org)
  • The IMF mission which concluded its visit to Saudi Arabia also praised the structural reforms which are happening in the Kingdom in line with Vision 2030. (arabnews.com)
  • Along with basic fiscal and structural reforms, the IMF recommended that government place a greater emphasis on combating HIV/AIDS. (afrik-news.com)
  • The joint report by the Thai NGO iLaw, Digital Reach and The Citizen Lab found that the infections spanned 2020 to 2021 and involved prominent individuals leading the mass pro-democracy protests, which called for major political and economic reforms, as well as academics and human rights defenders who have publicly criticized the Thai government. (amnesty.org)
  • In a bitter response, Morocco lifted border controls into Ceuta, one of Spain's small enclaves in North Africa, allowing some 10,000 migrants to cross the border and effectively creating a humanitarian crisis. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Lebovich is currently a doctoral candidate in African History at Columbia University in New York, where he studies religion, politics, and society in North Africa, the Sahara, and the Sahel. (ecfr.eu)
  • He previously worked for the Open Society Initiative in West Africa (OSIWA) as a Sahel consultant, advising the organisation on political, social, and security issues in West Africa and the Sahel, and for the New America Foundation. (ecfr.eu)
  • Afrik-news is a daily online newspaper that highlights information from around the world with emphasis on Africa. (afrik-news.com)
  • According to a World Bank investment climate assessment survey [of Swaziland], over 50 percent of company managers reported much higher worker absenteeism due to sickness than other countries in Southern Africa," the IMF said. (afrik-news.com)
  • Chinese companies have previously been active in infrastructure projects such as the suspension bridge linking Rabat and Sale, among the largest of its kind in Africa. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • The principal partners are the Chinese aviation group Haite , BMCE's Bank of Africa, and the government of Morocco represented by the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima regional authorities. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • According to its website , the Forum provides a multinational platform for CEOs of African and international companies, financial specialists, investors, bankers, thought-leaders, and public sector leaders to exchange information and develop projects in Africa and internationally, and develop strategies to address the economic and industrial challenges facing the continent. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO), an organization that seeks the territory's independence, disputes Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the territory. (state.gov)
  • Government initiatives like 'Digital Morocco 2020' and 'Startup Act' are driving innovation and entrepreneurship in Morocco's tech scene. (moroccandiaspora.com)
  • Morocco's strategic location, strong infrastructure, and collaborations with other countries make it an attractive destination for tech companies, with opportunities for growth and expansion. (moroccandiaspora.com)
  • However, he stressed that rejoining of the body did not mean an change in Morocco's stance on Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The findings of this survey, entitled Media Ownership Monitor Morocco (MOM), and the first database about Morocco's media are now available to the public at www.maroc.mom-rsf.org - a trilingual website (French, Arabic and English) that was unveiled in Casablanca today. (rsf.org)
  • Casablanca, 17 November 2017 - According to the MOM's findings, nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco's most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. (rsf.org)
  • With Israel's normalization, the feud between Algeria and Morocco is escalating. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Dubbed North Africa's new 'Cold War', the tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria threaten to escalate and the consequences of this have a lot more to do with Western meddling in the affairs of the two countries than meets the eye. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Algeria justified its move further by citing examples, such as Morocco using the Israeli Pegasus spyware against Algerian officials, supporting terrorists groups, failing to uphold bilateral commitments, the normalisation of ties with Israel, and refusing to engage diplomatically on the Western Sahara issue. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Although many of the accusations made against Morocco by Algeria have been strongly denied, they nonetheless have a real impact on public perception of the two sides. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • He said that "first you are going to have them [Algeria and Morocco] seeking regional supremacy, through the arms race that we have been seeing for nearly a decade now, but also through the diplomatic race. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Saifi, who has been called the "bin Laden of the Sahara," was traveling with about 50 jihadists, some from Algeria, the rest from nearby African countries such as Mauritania and Nigeria. (villagevoice.com)
  • News sure local epub Muted is on a unknown paper between PCBs advanced in persuasive photosensitive woman and optical young question. (visualdiaries.com)
  • After resignation of Personal Envoy of the Secretary General Horst Kohler in May 2019, the UN Security Council returned to one-year renewals of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. (state.gov)
  • This communique, which was made public on Monday, September 19, reiterated, "UN Security Council Resolution 690 (1991)… calls for the self-determination of Western Sahara through a free and fair referendum administered by the UN and the AU. (towardfreedom.org)
  • Relations between Madrid and Rabat have been frosty since May 2021, when Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, for hospital treatment after he suffered complications related to COVID-19. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This is especially the case since the reforms' impacts - including desperately needed diversification of the mining-dependent economy - will only be felt in the medium-to-long term at best. (africanarguments.org)
  • it was among the deadliest organizations in the world, with operatives in Europe and North America. (villagevoice.com)
  • The credit of book takes watermarking slowed by North America, Western Europe, and Japan. (kobeltonline.de)
  • Spain's stance on the matter is especially important, as the country was Western Sahara's colonial ruler until 1976 . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Morocco has made an official request to join the African Union (AU) again more than four decades after leaving the pan-African bloc in protest at Western Sahara's membership. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The statement further claimed that Morocco and Kenya had signed a joint statement agreeing that "in deference to the principle of territorial integrity and non-interference, the Republic of Kenya [had extended] total support to the serious and credible autonomy plan proposed by the Kingdom of Morocco" as the only possible solution to the Sahara issue. (towardfreedom.org)
  • Citing projections compiled by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the IMF report said by 2016, eight percent of Swaziland's GDP would be devoted to training workers to replace those who have died from AIDS. (afrik-news.com)
  • Morocco withdrew from the AU in 1984, when the mineral-rich and sparsely populated Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) - commonly known as Western Sahara - was accepted as a member. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Also known as Western Sahara, SADR is a founding member of the African Union (AU) and the continent's last colony, fighting a war for liberation from Morocco. (towardfreedom.org)
  • This was a setback to Morocco, which had declared a diplomatic victory over SADR prematurely, before any official announcement by the Kenyan government. (towardfreedom.org)
  • The UN, the AU, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the International Court of Justice all maintain that Morocco has no legitimate territorial claims over SADR. (towardfreedom.org)
  • NSO Group, the company behind Pegasus, claims that it only sells products to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies. (amnesty.org)
  • The Pegasus Project was a collaboration by journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries, coordinated by Forbidden Stories. (amnesty.org)
  • In the last year, the Security Lab uncovered new instances of targeting using Pegasus in Morocco-Western Sahara and Poland. (amnesty.org)
  • This has turned Israeli cyber into a world leader, so much so that over 40% of investments in the sector globally in 2020 went to Israeli companies and entrepreneurs. (business-humanrights.org)
  • The following day, alleged drone strikes carried out by Morocco directly targeted clearly marked Algerian trucks near the Mauritanian border with the disputed Western Sahara region. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • The first section of this paper will briefly describe the plea made by the European Union for recognition of special rules of responsibility for regional economic integration organizations, with an emphasis on rules on attribution (Part 1). (sharesproject.nl)
  • Meanwhile, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development upgraded Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product growth to 2.9 percent in 2023, from its initial forecast of 2.6 percent in March. (arabnews.com)
  • As the OIC had had a session of its Contact Group on Kashmir at the level of Permanent Representatives to the UN a month ago, Saudi Arabia apparently thought the Pakistani request was uncalled for, forcing the organisation to take an avoidable anti-India political stance. (anantaaspencentre.in)
  • Asked to explain the sudden change in stance and dissonance within the government, Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua told KTN News on Monday, "This was an administration in transition-[having been] only one day in office… We had many visitors, there [were] so many delegations, and communications had to be made. (towardfreedom.org)
  • This time around, Riyadh would settle for some unspecified version of prison reform: better meals, more exercise in the yard outside, perhaps conjugal visits. (nationofchange.org)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco has officially submitted a request to accede to the African Union Constitutive Act, and therefore, become a Member of the Union," the statement read. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Following the Asian Financial Crisis, she founded and managed the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening (FIRST) Initiative, a US$ 66 million global fund established to provide direct support to countries in reforming and developing their financial systems. (laurelstrategies.com)
  • His successor Umaru Yar'Adua declared the organisation of the sector as not fit for purpose in 2007 - but both his administration and Goodluck Jonathan's which followed in 2010 foundered in their efforts to adopt a new reform initiative (AC Vol 50 No 23 The biggest reform of all & Vol 54 No 11 Blocking the great reform bill). (africa-confidential.com)
  • Morocco obviously normalized relations with Israel so it's expanding its diplomatic influence. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • President Trump's border-wall obsession and the political uproar over it have dominated the news, while the alleged dangers of undocumented immigrants - whose numbers he wildly exaggerates - have dominated his rhetoric. (truthout.org)
  • But Badibanga will struggle to continue his predecessor's donor-friendly reform programme at the same time as responding to various political pressures. (africanarguments.org)
  • All these factors and more were cited in a 4 November letter sent by the local Federation of Congolese Enterprises (FEC) to Kongo Central province officials, in western Democratic Republic of Congo. (africanarguments.org)
  • They cast a dim eye on the reforms of the armed forces introduced by newly nominated Republican Minister of War Manuel Azaña within the first few months of the new government. (wikipedia.org)
  • In order to ingratiate itself with key officers in the Navy, the Republican Government promoted to high posts men such as Lieutenant Commander Ángel Rizo Bayona who was given the post of representing the state in the Trasmediterránea Shipping Company and Navy engineer Alfredo Cal Díaz who was promoted to the post of Navigation Director. (wikipedia.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • With government initiatives driving innovation and entrepreneurship, a growing startup ecosystem, strategic location and strong infrastructure, as well as a vibrant culture and lifestyle, Morocco is quickly becoming a hotspot for technology enthusiasts. (moroccandiaspora.com)
  • The government of Morocco understands that without adequate funding, many promising startups would struggle to get off the ground. (moroccandiaspora.com)
  • Firstly, Morocco has been successful in attracting startups from around the world, thanks to its supportive government initiatives and flourishing tech scene. (moroccandiaspora.com)
  • Meanwhile, the government has reverted to paying the money it owes large companies in Congolese francs, drawing the ire of the business community. (africanarguments.org)
  • First Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) an Irish-based company founded by Brendan Cahill and Michael Quinn which won a power sector contract in the final days of the Umaru Yar'Adua administration has secured a judgement debt in the United States against the government that with daily interest is pushing US$10 billion over 2. (africa-confidential.com)
  • For its part, the government of Morocco will continue its economic development projects in the north, including the high speed train scheduled to begin service within the next year, expansion of the free trade zones around TangerMed Port, and additional excavation of the deepwater harbor facilities. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • According to a report by NASDAQ , the Central Bank of Morocco, Bank Al-Maghrib, has positive economic projections for 2017, even as some indicators such as inflation and the balance of payments are slightly more negative. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • Energy policy reforms over the past decade have focused on creating enabling conditions to deliver on the government's ambitions to achieve an affordable, secure and sustainable energy system. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • The security apparatus includes several police and paramilitary organizations with overlapping authority. (state.gov)
  • and the talks are being used to delay humanitarian response and lack transparency by suppressing security sector reforms. (co.ke)
  • Attijarawafa Bank was named African bank of the year by yet another business organization. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • This file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows an African Union summit at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • According to the firm's Organisation Reform Manager Engidaget Manuye, the shipping company transported some 466,000 tonnes of cargo out of the landlocked Ethiopia to other destinations around the globe. (afrik-news.com)
  • Repeating its formula for yet another successful foray into an African economy, China has agreed to form a joint enterprise with Morocco to develop an industrial and technology park, hosting hundreds of Chinese companies , to support manufacturing centers in the Tanger region. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara and administers the territory that it controls. (state.gov)
  • States have binding obligations under international law to not only respect human rights, but also to protect them from abuse by third parties, including private companies. (amnesty.org)
  • Morocco maintains that Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom, but the international community has not recognized the annexation. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Often in the discussion of the allocation of international responsibility between an international organization and its Member States for unlawful acts pride of place is given to the allocation of powers or competences between the organization and its Member States. (sharesproject.nl)
  • Meanwhile, AU Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said member states will be informed and the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI will be notified of the outcome. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Sudan is also a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, AU and Igad. (co.ke)
  • Face Detection and Recognition: analysis and osoblyvostey Rewards means, interpretations, and links with a own organization for media title on the global jobs, years, and glaciers originated in Dual Y product and path. (weitz.org)
  • The MOM investigation, which took three months, focussed on 46 media outlets and the 36 companies that own them. (rsf.org)
  • Oando's management are in dispute with the minority shareholders Gabriele Volpi the Italian owner of leading oil service company Intels and Dahiru Mangal one of the wealthiest businessmen in the north who was close to the late President Umaru Yar'Adua . (africa-confidential.com)
  • Morocco has occupied the territory ever since, a presence most of the world considers illegal. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Oil undergirded the longstanding U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia, a regressive, authoritarian state that has nevertheless thumbed its nose at the United States by funding anti-Western extremism throughout the world. (nationofchange.org)
  • The leader of companies your request was for at least 30 agreements, or for again its molecular research if it uses shorter than 30 aspects. (montecalvario.com)
  • They balked at the costs and at the lack of results of the Spanish military during the Rif Wars in Morocco and their vision was to have a smaller and more modern Spanish Navy that would meet the needs of the country. (wikipedia.org)
  • To blame for the attack, according to the authorities, was "the Zionist entity [Israel]" and a "North African country," broadly interpreted to have meant Morocco. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Overall, the news is good: the economy is steady and performing soundly resulting in controlled inflation, minimal increases in the trade deficit, and a more-than-manageable budget deficit. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • Baheej will study each city in Saudi Arabia to identify gaps in a tourist's itinerary, and speaking to Arab News on the sidelines of the Future Hospitality Summit in Abu Dhabi, one of the executives involved with the company gave more details of its future plans. (arabnews.com)
  • But the reports from recent days regarding offensive-cyber company NSO, which joins a long list of exposes in Calcalist over recent years, must push the responsible authorities, both inside and outside of the industry, to reassess the situation. (business-humanrights.org)
  • The radio sector is dominated by the state but its ownership is otherwise more diverse, consisting of several smaller companies that have emerged in the past ten years. (rsf.org)