Snubbing Pretoria’s conference to attend Morocco's one, SADC states defend their decision

After snubbing Pretoria’s solidarity conference, SADC member states that attended Morocco’s parallel meeting on Western Sahara defended their choice. The two meetings made some of the organization’s leaders question SADC’s unity.

Morocco’s conference on the Sahara : Guterres calls member states to support the UN’s efforts

South Africa left angered over Morocco’s conference on the Sahara

The chairperson of the African National Congress, a ruling party in South Africa, criticized Morocco for hosting a parallel conference on the same day SADC was organizing a meeting to support the Polisario Front.

Sahara : SADC member states torn between a Polisario conference and a Marrakech meeting

As Marrakech is hosting an African meeting on the Western Sahara conflict, Pretoria chairs a SADC conference to support the Polisario. Some African countries have decided to send delegations to both Morocco and South Africa, trying to please both parties.

Prohibited by the Dean, a student organization hosts several Islamic conferences in Fes

Since Monday, student organization Attajdid Attolabi chaired a series of conferences at the faculty of Islamic law in Fes, despite the refusal of the Dean. After Abdellah Nhari and Jamila Ziyane, students at the university attended a conference of Salafist scholar Adil Reffouch.

Nasser Bourita misses the anti-Iran conference, attended by Mohcine Jazouli

Marrakech : Dimitris Avramopoulos to lead EU delegation to migration conference

Moroccan activists sign a petition against the Egyptian Islamic theologist Omar Abdelkafi

History : The Fedala conference and the end of Tangier’s international statute

On October the 29th, 1956, Ahmed Balafrej, who headed the Moroccan diplomacy at the time, signed the Final Decleration of the International Conference of Tangier. The treaty put an end of the city’s international statute.

A Moroccan association invites Amir Peretz to chair a conference in Tangier