A boat carrying around 40 migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of Mauritania, leaving only one survivor, a United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) spokesman said on Thursday. “Tragic news coming in of a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania. Some 40 people were reportedly…
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The Maghreb – which principally comprises Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – has been hard hit by the coronavirus, but the pandemic has also sparked innovation and driven changes in the region that many hope will outlast Covid-19. In mid-March Morocco became one of the first countries in the region to implement strict lockdown measures – a move that earned praise from the EU, as did King Mohammed VI’s proposal for a continental initiative to pool knowledge and resources.
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Ever since the launch of the BRI in 2013, Beijing has shown great interest in the Maghreb region as an entry point to European and African markets. Beijing has prioritized commercial relations over political influence in the Maghreb. While the current BRI map does not officially include the Maghreb region (by design, as the BRI is more a loose brand than a strict program), Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed between China and every country in the Maghreb, demonstrating that China is expanding its foothold in the region. China’s most significant 21st century diplomatic and economic activity is the launching of the new Silk Road project, dubbed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI, a sprawling network of trade and commercial ties between China and various world regions, is the flagship foreign policy of the Xi Jinping administration and the Chinese Communist Party.
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Military members from across U.S. Africa Command attended the inaugural Tunisia International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition (IADE) March 4-8. Participation in events like these demonstrated the United States’ commitment to the region…
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Mauritania has pronounced its first casualty from coronavirus (COVID-19), state media wrote about March 31, adding to the developing loss of life on the African mainland. The casualty is a 48-year-old French-Mauritanian double national…
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Morocco’s West-Africa-to-Western-Europe commercial transportation corridor is redefining the geopolitical parameters of the global scramble for Africa. Morocco has surpassed Spain and is poised to become the dominant maritime hub in the western Mediterranean. Morocco is now…
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RABAT – Morocco is seeking to regain its mediator role in the Libyan crisis, a role it had played towards reaching the 2015 Skhirat Agreement, which was seen as an agreement capable of resolving the Libyan crisis if all of its provisions had been…
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On Thursday, the Council of the European Union updated its list of third countries for which restrictions on non-essential travel should be gradually lifted. In what is the second update to the list, the EU decided to remove one country…
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Tags : Algeria, coronavirus, covid 19, travels,
he seizure of Morocco coincided with the conquest of Libya. The modern use of the term “Libya” was coined by the Italians, who borrowed it from ancient geography. The ancient Greeks had called the entire territory of North Africa “Libya”; the Italians used it in reference to the regions…
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Women in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have significantly influenced their country’s social, economic, religious, political, and artistic realms. How they have done so has been affected by the country’s nomadic past, severe droughts, history with slavery, and rapid urbanization…
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