Morocco could reopen its skies on June 10, on which date it would certainly lift the suspension of air links with 54 countries including France, Spain and Algeria. For now, this date is maintained.
King Mohammed VI ranks 2nd out of 15 in the 2021 Business Insider Africa ranking for the best-paid heads of state in Africa. He far outpaces Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Morocco accuses Spain of having "facilitated" the return of Brahim Ghali to Algeria, in the early hours of Wednesday, June 2, 2021, and promises to take drastic measures urgently.
A wind of panic is blowing on the Algerian intelligence services, who are desperately searching for the spy who leaked information about the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , leader of the Polisario, to a hospital in Logroño, Spain under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, Algerian nationality, on April 18. An investigation is underway.
Morocco has been engaged for a few years in a dynamic of strengthening and modernizing its army, with the support of the United States and Saudi Arabia. Would this Moroccan military policy constitute a threat to Spain?
The diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Spain caused by the hospitalization of Brahim Ghali, the Polisario chief, in Logroño under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, an Algerian national, is worsening. The first vice-president of the Spanish government, Carmen Calvo, accuses Rabat of having exceeded "the limit of good neighborliness".
On the run and under an Interpol international arrest warrant, an Algerian suspected of drug trafficking was arrested on Thursday in Casablanca. The accused was running a very active drug trafficking network in Aïn Beïda, a commune in northeastern Algeria, near the province of Constantine.
A large sum of counterfeit dinars was seized at the Algerian-Moroccan border by the services of the National Gendarmerie and the Border Guards. A criminal network composed of six individuals was also dismantled.
The future of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline will be played out in four months, upon the expiration in autonomy of the agreement linking Algeria and Morocco for its operation. The tension between the two countries does not bode well for a renewal of this contract, which penalizes Spain.
The crisis between Morocco and Spain, born after the reception of Brahim Ghali in a hospital in Logroño, is not about to see its epilogue. This Sunday, Arancha González Laya, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicated that the leader of the Polisario "will return to his country when he has recovered".
Many men and women from North Africa choose to immigrate to France via Spain, at the risk of their lives, in search of a better future. Once on French soil, they face many disillusions.
In Morocco, thousands of people, including journalists and activists, are reacting to the new tension between the kingdom and Spain caused by the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , the Polisario leader, to a hospital in Logroño, under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality. They have called for a boycott of Spanish products.