During a visit to Morocco, Libyan Vice President of the Presidential Council Abdallah Ellafi announced that 195 Moroccans detained in Libya will be repatriated to the Kingdom.
While they wanted to reach Libya, many Moroccan migrants find themselves stranded in detention centers in Algeria. Living in very difficult conditions, they are asking the Algerian authorities to grant their request for repatriation and to speed up the expulsion procedure to Morocco .
Morocco has updated its list A, which includes all countries with positive indicators regarding the control of the epidemiological situation, particularly the spread of virus variants. New countries such as Libya, Turkey and Qatar are now on this list.
Morocco could intervene in Libya in the military field. The Libyan army has just requested the support of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) to meet the security challenges in the country.
Morocco displays the best connection in the Maghreb, far ahead of Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. This is revealed by the global ranking of the specialized site Speedtest Global Index on mobile and fixed internet connection in March 2021.
Morocco is the 11th happiest country in Africa, 6th in the Arab world and 106th in the world, ahead of Algeria (12th, 7th and 109th) in the 2021 World Happiness Report ranking.
Rached Ghannouchi, President of the Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP), also leader of the Islamist party Ennahdha, has called for a three-member Maghreb Union composed of Libya, Algeria and Tunisia. This proposal, which automatically excludes Morocco, sounds like a diplomatic blunder.
Morocco’s contribution to the resolution of the Libyan crisis has been welcomed by the European community. The president of the European delegation for relations with the countries of the Maghreb and the Arab Maghreb Union, Andrea Cozzolino, thanked the kingdom, in particular King Mohammed VI , for the essential role played in this process.
A Moroccan national residing in Libya has not given any sign of life for more than a month. Several calls for witnesses have been launched, without success, by his family and friends.
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.
Morocco is one of the Arab countries to which the Israeli government intends to claim nearly $250 billion. This amount will be paid as compensation for the assets and property left by the Jews who left after the proclamation of the State of Israel.
Libyan MP Omar Garmil died on Sunday, December 13, from Covid-19 in Morocco, after participating in late November in the Libyan peace talks.