The UN special envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, is facing a wall. His proposal to partition the territory, presented during a closed-door meeting of the Security Council, received no support from Morocco or the Polisario Front.
At the request of Majda Moutchou, Morocco’s representative to the UN, the president of the National Union of Algerian Women, Nouria Hafsi, was expelled Tuesday from a meeting of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York, after attacking Morocco, which she described as a "colonial" monarchy.
Omar Hilale , Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, notes that Algeria is "stuck in the Cold War era" while the Moroccan Sahara has been fully integrated into the kingdom for more than 50 years.
In a response letter addressed to the President and members of the Security Council, Omar Hilale , Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, denounced the provocative statement made by the Secretary General of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lounes Magramane, on the Sahara, during the Security Council debate held on Monday, August 12, under the presidency of Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. This correspondence will be published as an official document of the UN body.
According to data from the international agency UN Tourism (formerly the World Tourism Organization), Morocco has gained ten places in the ranking of tourism revenues.
In a letter addressed to the President and members of the UN Security Council that will be published as an official document of the UN body, Omar Hilale , Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, denounces the obsession of his Algerian counterpart Amar Bendjama, for the issue of the Sahara.
Omar Hilale , Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, denounced the actions of Algerian ambassador Amar Benjama during the debate on the Moroccan Sahara issue at the C24 Seminar, held from May 14 to 16, 2024 in Caracas, Venezuela.
The Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale, firmly rebuked the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, who made erroneous statements about the Sahara and drew a parallel with Palestine, during a debate at the Security Council on "The role of youth in addressing security challenges in the Mediterranean".
Algeria looks askance at the joint organization by Morocco and the United States of "African Lion 2024", the largest military exercise in Africa, on Moroccan territory, particularly in the Sahara. A former Algerian minister is expressing his opposition and calling on Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General, to cancel it.
Moroccan households wasted more than 4 million tons of meals in 2022. This is revealed by the 2024 report on the food waste index of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), written by WRAP, a global NGO based in the United Kingdom.
Morocco has dropped seven places in the 2024 World Happiness Ranking, now ranking 107th, according to the report published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network on the occasion of the World Happiness Day.
Algeria, protector of the Polisario, is seeking the support of Mozambique to counter Morocco on the Sahara issue at the UN. These two countries sit on the Security Council as non-permanent members.