While Fouzi Lekjaa , president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), is running for election to the FIFA Council, former Atlas Lion Abdeslam Ouaddou has lent his support to Kheireddine Zetchi, president of the Algerian Football Federation (FAF) who has just been rehabilitated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. This has provoked the anger of Moroccans.
The defense wall has been extended by 50 km to the east to secure the Touizgui area in the province of Assa-Zag, and to complete the border system to the east. This new wall is located up to 3 km from the Algerian wall, according to satellite images broadcast by the unofficial YouTube channel of the FAR .
Morocco and Algeria have embarked on an arms race following the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. This is at least what the magazine The Africa Report reveals.
Algerian players have just postponed their trip to Morocco as part of the U17 Africa Cup of Nations, scheduled from March 13 to 31 in the kingdom. They are victims of the suspension of flights to Algeria, decided by the Moroccan authorities due to the health crisis.
The remarks of Abdelaziz Makri, leader of the Algerian Islamist party Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP) on the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) , the Sahara and the Morocco-Israel normalization have provoked a reaction from the Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD).
Morocco has decided to suspend air links with Algeria and Egypt. This decision is part of the preventive measures against the spread of the coronavirus and its new variants.
The Algerian ambassador to Yaoundé stated that Morocco continues to "trample" on "commitments by creating a fragile situation of neither war nor peace" in the Sahara. He was responding to a Moroccan official who described Algeria as an "enemy".
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stated that his country "will not abandon the Western Sahara issue". This is his way of reiterating his support for the Polisario, his protégé, and reviving tensions between the two countries.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune accuses Morocco , without naming it, of wanting to destabilize his country through media relays. Statements that add to the diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
The US State Department and the CIA are now using the map of Morocco integrating the territory of the Sahara. This should reassure the kingdom at a time when Algerian lobbies and supporters of the Polisario are calling on the Biden administration to call into question the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The Algerian authorities accuse Morocco of "flooding" its territory and neighboring countries with drugs, with the aim of destabilizing them and protecting drug traffickers.
Spain intends to play hardball with Algeria and Morocco over the delimitation of territorial waters, in accordance with the principles established by the United Nations. This is at least what Arancha González Laya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, affirmed before the Spanish Senate.