After a defeat against Algeria, the Atlas Lions were crushed, on Saturday, January 16, by the Portuguese during the second day of the group stage of the Handball World Championship (Egypt 2021).
The Moroccan national handball team lost, Thursday, January 14, to the Algerian selection with a score of (23-24). It was the first match of the Atlas Lions counting for the first day of the World Handball Championship organized in Egypt.
Ahmed Wihmane, president of the Moroccan Observatory against Normalization, warns that normalization with Israel is a "serious and existential threat both for Morocco and Algeria".
During the graduation ceremony of the 49th promotion of the National School of Administration (ENA), the Algerian Foreign Minister made remarks that barely conceal a challenge to Morocco.
An Algerian woman living illegally in Morocco for more than twenty years is moving the web in a statement addressed to the authorities of her country. In a video, this single mother over 50 years old, with tears in her eyes, begs the Algerian authorities to issue the necessary documents to allow her son to go to Algeria.
The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, is considering appointing former Romanian Prime Minister Petre Roman as the next UN Special Envoy for the Sahara. A choice not yet confirmed, which is already causing lively controversy in Algeria.
The support of the Algerian raï singer Reda Taliani for Morocco’s territorial integrity is not to the liking of his compatriots. Some have violently attacked him.
"Morocco is in the crosshairs of the Algerian military regime," says Ahmed Ounaies, former Tunisian Foreign Minister. The latter hails the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara as a "victory that will preserve all the countries of the Maghreb from Algeria."
"Zionist", "traitor", this is how the Justice and Development Party (PJD) and its leader, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El-Othmani, are described by the head of the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), the Algerian Islamist party, Abderrazak Makri. This shower of insults comes following the agreement to resume relations between Morocco and Israel.
Rumors claim that the first direct flight between Israel and Morocco, on board which was an American-Israeli delegation led by Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the outgoing US president, crossed Algerian airspace. A member of this delegation has formally denied this.
The Head of Government, Saâdeddine El Othmani affirmed that Morocco is ready to reopen its borders with Algeria.
A wind of panic is blowing over Algeria following the announcement of the probable future installation of an American base in the Moroccan Sahara.