Algeria and the Polisario have lost a legal battle over phosphate imports in the Sahara against the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. The High Court of New Zealand dismissed the separatists’ complaint filed against this fund in March 2020.
The shadow of the Sahara continues to loom over the relations between Russia and Morocco. During the meeting at the Kremlin, the ambassador of the kingdom in Moscow Lotfi Bouchraara met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov on this subject.
Europe must make a realistic decision on the Sahara issue. This is what the former Spanish Foreign Minister, Ana Palacio, demands in an op-ed after the American recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.
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.
Omar Hilale , Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, stated that the problem of the El Guerguerat border crossing post was definitively over.
During the videoconference meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) at the level of Heads of State and Government, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on Morocco and the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to dialogue in order to resolve the Sahara conflict. He associates the AU and the UN with this endeavor.
Algeria is attacking the map of Morocco integrating the Sahara adopted by the United States and other countries. It calls on its various departments to use all their weight to ban its dissemination at international events.
Morocco and Algeria have embarked on an arms race following the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. This is at least what the magazine The Africa Report reveals.
Morocco’s suspension of its relations with Germany sounds like a warning for Spain, with which the kingdom has disagreements on the same issue of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.
The Algerian ambassador to Yaoundé stated that Morocco continues to "trample" on "commitments by creating a fragile situation of neither war nor peace" in the Sahara. He was responding to a Moroccan official who described Algeria as an "enemy".
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stated that his country "will not abandon the Western Sahara issue". This is his way of reiterating his support for the Polisario, his protégé, and reviving tensions between the two countries.