In his latest periodic interview with the Algerian press, the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, discussed the creation of the Maghreb bloc and the issue of the Sahara, while extending a hand to Morocco, a neighboring country with which Algeria, the protector of the Polisario, unilaterally severed diplomatic relations in August 2021.
Images showing a drone allegedly Moroccan shot down by the Polisario in the Sahara are circulating on social media. What is it really about?
The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, expressed his concerns to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, about the naval maneuvers that the Royal Moroccan Navy is preparing to launch in the waters of the Sahara, near the archipelago.
At 75 years old, a Briton is taking on a crazy challenge, that of participating in the 38th Marathon des Sables which will take place in the Moroccan Sahara, in order to raise funds for a children’s hospice.
The Royal Moroccan Navy is preparing to carry out naval maneuvers in the waters of the Sahara, off the Canary Islands. An operation that comes after the request of the Advocate General inviting the Court of Justice of the EU to cancel the fisheries agreement with Morocco.
Relations between Morocco and France have experienced strong tensions in recent years for various reasons, including the rapprochement with Algeria, Morocco’s neighboring rival, and Paris’s reluctance to recognize the Moroccanness of the Sahara, as already done by the United States, Spain, Israel and Germany. Today, the power of Emmanuel Macron is working to turn the page on tensions.
Morocco’s diplomatic advances on the Sahara issue are always viewed in a negative light in Algeria. The former Algerian minister, Abdelaziz Rahabi, who is also a former Algerian ambassador to Madrid, points to Rabat’s blackmail.
Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is irrefutable if one refers to the historical royal documents, said Bahija Simou, the director of the Royal Archives, during a conference organized by the Ribat Al Fath Association for Sustainable Development on "Morocco’s sovereignty over the Saharan territories through royal documents".
Morocco is gearing up for the transfer by Spain of the management of the airspace of the Sahara , in exchange for the opening of the customs offices of Ceuta and Melilla.
The promotion of the Moroccan destination in the United States, financed by the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT), is not well received by Moroccans. And for good reason, its partner, an American airline, has displayed a map of the kingdom without its Sahara in an advertising campaign.
A concert by Algerian singer Cheba Chinou scheduled for this weekend in Oujda has been outright canceled by local authorities. The reason? Accusations of hostility towards Morocco and support for the division of the kingdom.
Morocco and the United Arab Emirates maintain good diplomatic relations. But the occurrence of an incident causes surprise among Moroccan internet users: a map of the kingdom without the Sahara.