Because it was held against the backdrop of a transient crisis, the summit held between Moroccan Monarch King Mohammed VI and American President Barack Obama went beyond the efforts to dissipate the blames. Indeed, it addressed the future, in order (...)
The acute controversy surrounding the possible introduction of the colloquial language in preliminary schools in Morocco has retreated but is not yet over. This issue is like a giant emerging from the ashes. And just like some perceive it as being a (...)
The Maghreb capitals failed to promote a unified position during the regional conference on border security held in Rabat, under the sponsorship of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States. Although they expressed mounting concerns over the (...)
During his upcoming visit to Washington, Moroccan Monarch King Mohammed VI will not be carrying purely Moroccan concerns, but rather Maghreb and African aspirations that will be the main focus of the summit he will hold with President Barack Obama. (...)
It does not matter if the Iranian nuclear program is a priority for the Americans. Indeed, the postponement of American Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Algeria and Morocco leaves the door half open to the monitoring of the developments in (...)
The Moroccan ambassador's return to Algeria marks the end of a crisis, but not that of the disputes, knowing that such irregular diplomatic customs are only resorted to when patience runs out and the only way left to exchange messages of blame (...)
The collapse of Moroccan-Algerian coexistence on the edges of the Sahara quicksand was expected and did not come as a surprise to anyone. The return to square one, at the level of bilateral and regional relations, reveals that the two sides have run (...)
The collapse of Moroccan-Algerian coexistence on the edges of the Sahara quicksand was expected and did not come as a surprise to anyone. The return to square one, at the level of bilateral and regional relations, reveals that the two sides have run (...)
It makes no difference whether Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika runs for a fourth term or suggests a constitutional amendment to extend his mandate for two additional years, or if a vice president is elected to avoid vacuum. At the end of the (...)
Former American Secretary of State Colin Powell was astonished the day he was received by Moroccan Monarch King Mohammed VI in Marrakech with the following remark: "I had hoped to see you starting your tour to the region in Jerusalem." The Middle (...)
In the middle of the current term of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), international Envoy Christopher Ross is insisting on reaching something that would enhance the belief in the possibility of resuming the (...)
The Eid al-Adha holidays pushed hundreds of African immigrants to storm the border crossing into the occupied city of Ceuta in the northern part of Morocco, after the areas in its vicinity and in its twin enclave Melilla have become havens, where (...)
The speech of the Moroccan monarch during the inauguration of the parliamentary session provoked a dual feeling of reassurance and apprehension. Indeed, as much as he trusted the deputies' and the people's input about the social problems featuring a (...)
The Rally of Independents is not the one that saved Abdelilah Benkirane's government from collapse, although it did give it a push with a dose that circulated in the veins of the governmental majority after a long wait. Indeed, the commitment to (...)
Power appears to be like a millstone. If anything touches it gently, it refines it, and if anything puts pressure on it, it tears it apart. The same applies to the experiences of the Islamists in the authority following the Arab spring. In Morocco (...)
The loss of one parliamentary seat does not mean much in the majority and opposition equation in Morocco. But to the ruling Justice and Development Party, it represents a painful blow, considering that this is the first time it loses a political (...)
The Tunisian Ennahda Movement succumbed to the pressures of the street and accepted to step down from the troika government when it no longer had many options and all there was left to do was face the anger on the street or contain it with the least (...)
The Moroccan Unification and Reform Movement, which is perceived as the calling and guidance wing of the ruling Islamic Justice and Development party, recognized its disengagement from the consultations to form a government. And although it never (...)
Between the call to form a democratic and social front for confronting the decision taken by Abdelilah Benkirane's government to raise fuel prices and the organization by some opposition factions of crowded demonstrations throughout the country to (...)
In what was closer to an African-French summit, Bamako hosted leaders for the inauguration of President-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. This took place after the challenge related to the cleansing of Northern Mali from extremist movements, which (...)
The governmental crisis in Morocco is like no other, and what further complicates it is that no one wants to reproduce the Egyptian or Tunisian experience, to the point where coexistence with the crisis has become a phenomenon. More than four months (...)
The purpose of the governmental reshuffle conducted by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was to arrange the situation before facing more than one development, from the presidential elections to Algeria's return to the African and Maghreb (...)
The Egyptian events are being echoed in two different experiences in Tunisia and Morocco. And while the Tunisian street is busy carrying out an action aiming to topple the government of Ennahda and its partners in the troika, the Moroccans are (...)
The Moroccan opposition allowed Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to work on the "second version" of the experience of having Islamists in power, and did not withdraw confidence from his government, although it had attained the legal quorum to do (...)
The colors have become mixed up and what American President Barack Obama used to call red lines – in regard to the prohibited use of chemical weapons – now requires a green light to move forward with the implementation of his pledges. And by linking (...)