Despite the severing of diplomatic relations between Algiers and Rabat, the match between Algeria and Burkina Faso for the second round of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers will take place on September 7 at the Grand Stadium in Marrakech. Amine Labdi, general manager of the Algerian national team, provides details.
Morocco has decided to close its embassy in Algiers this Friday, August 27 after the Algerian decision to break off diplomatic relations .
The statements of the Israeli Foreign Minister during his historic visit to Rabat are one of the grievances for which Algeria says it has severed diplomatic ties. Israel rejects these accusations and calls on Algiers to "focus" on its economic "problems".
The tension prevailing between Morocco and Algeria could lead to the end of the concession of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline (GME) linking the neighboring country to Spain. While the kingdom has stated its position on its renewal, Algeria is slow to do so. Its position could be unfavorable.
The Polisario is changing its strategy of action to achieve its goal of resolving the crisis in the Sahara. At the end of a press conference held in Algiers on Monday, Mohamed Ould Salek expressed his willingness to sit at the United Nations in order to be able to directly raise his problems to the Security Council.
During the 110th week of the peaceful Hirak protests, the police arrested a Moroccan on Friday, March 26 in Algiers. He is a 30-year-old man in an irregular situation on Algerian territory.
Iran provides evidence that it had conspired in secret in Algiers three years ago against Morocco. This is what can be deduced from the recent statements of an Iranian diplomat on the Sahara, supporting the Polisario.
Faced with tensions between Morocco and Algeria, especially over the Sahara, China, which is their partner, could use its full weight to facilitate constructive interaction between the two countries. This is at least the view of Michaël Tanchum, associate professor at the University of Navarra, and Nerea Álvarez-Aríztegui, a student at the same university.
The Algerian authorities prevented, on Sunday, Moroccan nationals from demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Algiers. Marginalized during the repatriation operation, they decided to organize a sit-in protest.
Air France announced on Sunday, May 10, the end of its "special and capped fares" used for the repatriation operations of French and dual nationals stranded abroad due to covid-19.
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, was to visit Algiers on February 26. Unexpectedly, Algeria decided to postpone this visit. And for good reason...
After his expulsion ordered on Sunday, August 18, 2019 by the Algiers Tribunal, the former Moroccan journalist and former founder of the TelQuel magazine arrived on Monday in Casablanca.