The women’s national team of Morocco outclassed Burkina Faso (5-0) in a friendly match. This commanding victory confirms the Atlas Lionesses’ intensive preparations for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations.
Due to tensions with Morocco and Sahel countries like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, Algeria is maintaining a high budget for defense in the 2026 finance law, close to 20%, around $25 billion, out of an estimated general national budget of around $135 billion.
The four Moroccan truck drivers, kidnapped in January 2025 in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, have been released. This is the result of a joint operation between the National Security Agency (ANSE) of Mali and the Directorate General of Studies and Documentation (DGED) of Morocco.
Announced in November 2023 by King Mohammed VI, the "Atlantic Initiative" aims to facilitate access to the ocean for the landlocked countries of the Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) through the port of Dakhla, under construction in the north of the city.
Worried, the families of the missing Moroccan drivers between Burkina Faso and Niger have launched an urgent appeal to the Moroccan authorities, urging them to intervene immediately. They fear they may have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
The steps taken by Moroccan diplomacy, in collaboration with professionals in the transport sector, to find the four Moroccan truck drivers who had been missing since Saturday, January 18, on a road between northeastern Burkina Faso and western Niger, have borne fruit.
Thanks to an intervention by King Mohammed VI, Morocco recently obtained the release of the four French agents of the Directorate General of External Security (DGSE), held since December 1, 2023 by the junta in Burkina Faso. However, the kingdom is said to have paid a payment in return for the service received.
Following mediation led by King Mohammed VI , four French citizens, held in Ouagadougou since December 2023, have been released.
Unlike France and Algeria, Morocco has intelligently managed the crisis in the Sahel, according to Jeune Afrique.
Morocco is ahead of France in signing a partnership with the Sahel states to facilitate their access to the Atlantic Ocean, analyzed Alain Juillet, former head of French intelligence services.
Morocco defeated Burkina Faso (1-0) on Tuesday in Lens, in a friendly match charged with emotions for the Moroccan national team led by Walid Regragui, after the deadly earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people in Morocco.
The Moroccan national team defeated Burkina Faso in a friendly match, which ended 1-0, on Tuesday, on the pitch of the Bollaert stadium in Lens, France.