Mauritania is actively encouraging dialogue between Morocco and the Sahrawis to resolve the Western Sahara conflict . Nouakchott stresses the urgent need for a political solution to address the severe economic and social consequences affecting the entire Maghreb.
The UN and the United States co-chaired new negotiations on Western Sahara in Washington. Based on Morocco’s autonomy plan, these discussions mark an “encouraging” step toward a mutually acceptable solution to the conflict.
Under the auspices of the United States, Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario Front discussed a revised autonomy plan for Western Sahara. This process implicitly marks the abandonment of the option of a self-determination referendum.
A 21-year-old Moroccan national, threatened with death by her family because of her homosexuality , was deported from the United States to Cameroon. The transfer, carried out despite a U.S. court ruling, ultimately forced her to return clandestinely to Morocco.
The American envoy Massad Boulos said that the United States wants a swift resolution to the Sahara conflict. Acting as a mediator within the UN framework, Washington warns that the talks recently held in Madrid will not drag on indefinitely.
Since 2021, the imposition of countervailing duties on Moroccan phosphate fertilizers has created trade tensions. Washington could once again review these duties.
The creation under the aegis of the United States of a multinational military force composed of Arab countries and including Morocco was at the heart of a discussion in Washington on the sidelines of a recent visit by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to the Uncle Sam’s country.
At the initiative of the Pulitzer Center, the screening of the short documentary Morocco, Morocco tracing the Moroccan origins of a small town in the state of Indiana, took place this week in Washington.
The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs was received this Monday afternoon by his American counterpart. At the heart of the exchanges between Nasser Bourita and Antony Blinken, the strengthening of relations between Morocco and the United States.
Army General James McConville, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, is working to implement the roadmap signed between Rabat and Washington as part of defense cooperation. He was on an official visit to Morocco last week.
Gérard Araud, retired, former French ambassador to Washington, and former external advisor to the Israeli company NSO, the manufacturer of Pegasus, has expressed doubts about Morocco, one of the countries accused of having targeted 10,000 phone numbers, including French President Emmanuel Macron , using the spyware.
The Algerian lobbies in Washington have reacted to the American recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara .