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Rome, March 14: Morocco is winning the fight against terrorism particularly through the promotion and dissemination of moderate Islam as an antidote to religious fundamentalism, according to a leading Italian daily.
Commenting on the recently concluded three-week African tour of King Mohammed VI that took him to Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea and Gabon, the Il Foglio said in an article that Morocco has embarked for several years on the fight against religious fundamentalism and terrorism, the Maghreb Arab Press (MAP) reported.
This approach has found today its full scope in the strategic choices of Morocco, recalling in this context the African tour of the king.
Headlined ‘The Moroccan model’, the author of the article pointed out that the first leg of the royal tour was Mali, a torn country where Rabat plays, both at the request of the Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, and that of the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MLNA), a crucial role in the process of pacification and democratisation of the country.
King Mohammad VI’s tour of sub-Saharan and West Africa came amid talk that this was part of Moroccan diplomacy to lobby for kits return to the African Union which it left in 1984 in protest against the admission of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
