The Moroccan Sahara is increasingly attracting VIPs. On Saturday, Saudi Prince Abdelmohsen ben Bandar arrived in Laâyoune for a relaxing stay. A visit that confirms that the region has become a popular tourist destination for the Gulf elite.
While the Spanish government continues to repeat that relations with Morocco are going through the "best moment in their history", the reality of this year 2025 is more nuanced. Behind the absence of friction, Rabat maintains the pressure: Spain must take the decisive step on the Sahara, like the United States and France.
The warning from the Polisario Front to Spain awakens old geopolitical demons. By evoking a possible threat to the Canary Islands , the Sahrawi separatists are highlighting the expansionist doctrine of the "Great Morocco", born in the 1920s and which continues to shape, in the background, the relations between Rabat and Madrid.
On the eve of the bilateral summit in Madrid, the Polisario Front has issued a severe warning to the Spanish government. The organization claims that the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara is only a step and that the next target of Rabat’s ambitions will be the Canary Islands archipelago .
The Spanish and Moroccan governments are meeting in Madrid on Thursday for a High-Level Meeting (RAN) with multiple stakes. While migration cooperation has shown spectacular results, there are still gray areas, particularly on the fluidity of trade at land borders, in a diplomatic context marked by Rabat’s advances on the Sahara issue.
Morocco would be willing to renounce its claims on the Canary Islands if Spain agreed to recognize the Moroccanness of the Sahara, transfer control of the airspace of this territory to it, accept the delimitation of maritime borders with the archipelago, and allow Morocco to have rights over Mount Tropic.
The Maghreb Forum for Dialogue, dedicated to promoting a culture of dialogue in the Maghreb region, has called for mediation by Mauritania, Libya and Tunisia, with a view to reconciling Morocco and Algeria , while respecting the principles of neutrality and balance.
The Polisario Front rejects any attempt at negotiations with Morocco since the adoption of Resolution 2797 of the United Nations Security Council validating the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara as the sole basis for resolving the conflict.
L’Algérie entend jouer un rôle de médiateur entre le Maroc et le Front du Polisario pour le règlement du conflit au Sahara qui perdure depuis 50 ans. Elle pose toutefois ses conditions.
The European Commission (EC) has approved a proposal to open negotiations for a new fisheries agreement between the European Union (EU) and Morocco, announced on Tuesday Costa Kadis, the European Commissioner for Fisheries, before the Spanish deputies and senators.
On the orders of King Mohammed VI, a high-level meeting was held this Monday, November 10 at the Royal Cabinet. It brought together the sovereign’s advisers, the heads of national political parties and the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs to discuss the future of the autonomy plan for the Sahara .
The Moroccan Ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale , has described the recent Security Council resolution on the Sahara as a "decisive turning point" and a "historic change". He emphasized that this decision paved the way for a new era for the region, calling on Algeria to seize this opportunity for reconciliation in 2026.