Morocco can continue to export its Charentais melons and cherry tomatoes produced in its southern provinces to France. This is the result of a recent decision by the French Council of State, which sounds like a setback for the Polisario and its allies.
Several Polisario militiamen were reportedly killed and wounded by a strike by the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) as they tried to approach the defense wall near the Galtat Zemmour region in the Sahara.
The information disseminated in recent days by certain media, including Bladi.net, reporting on the construction by Morocco of a road connecting the city of Es-smara, in the Sahara, to Mauritania, with a view to opening a new border post in the Amgala region, are not verified.
Morocco is about to finalize a major road project connecting Smara to Mauritania. This new 53-kilometer communication route will help strengthen economic and social ties between the kingdom and sub-Saharan countries.
As the draw for the quarter-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup is imminent, the Union Sportive de la Médina d’Alger fears a new dispute with the Moroccan club Renaissance de Berkane over the jersey of the Atlas Lions containing a map of the kingdom including the Sahara in the event of a match against the Moroccan players.
Morocco expects to strengthen cooperation with the United States with the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Rabat hopes that the US president, who had recognized the Moroccanness of the Sahara during his previous term, will proceed, as he had announced five years ago, to the opening of a US consulate in Dakhla.
Spanish public television TVE is at the center of a controversy. The channel broadcast a map of Morocco over the weekend that included the Sahara, prompting the Polisario Front to demand the correction of this "error".
New tensions are likely to emerge between Morocco and the European Union over the airspace of the Sahara.
Just hours before the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, scheduled for this Monday, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is displaying the map of Morocco integrating the territory of the Sahara.
Due to tensions arising from their differences on the Sahara issue, Algeria, the protector of the Polisario, and Morocco have intensified their arms race to the point of becoming the biggest spenders in North Africa.
Tunisia would seek to normalize its diplomatic relations with Morocco. The country would like to appease the tensions that arose after the reception of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario, by the Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, during the Africa-Japan summit held in Tunis in 2022.
Polisario commander Salamou Mohammed Fadel El Boubari and other militiamen were reportedly killed by a strike by the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) in the Haouza region, located in the buffer zone, in the Moroccan Sahara.