King Mohammed VI, accompanied by his son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, is expected to attend the Arab League summit to be held in Algiers on November 1 and 2. The presence of the Moroccan sovereign at this meeting would be a strong diplomatic gesture to ease tensions between the two countries.
The use of jet skis by migrants to illegally enter Spain from the Moroccan coasts has increased in recent months. The country’s security forces are having difficulty detecting these craft on radar and thus arresting these migrants and human traffickers who transport them.
The police arrested on Tuesday Mohamed Saïd Badaoui, head of the Islamic community of Reus (Tarragona), accused of being a threat to national security. The Moroccan activist, threatened with expulsion, was placed in custody at the La Verneda police station in Barcelona.
The Spanish government will approve this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers the granting of aid amounting to 30 million euros to Morocco to fight against illegal immigration and human trafficking.
Spain fears a massive assault of migrants in Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco, a few weeks before the high-level meeting between the two countries announced for November.
A new attempt to storm the metal fence of Melilla was thwarted by the authorities of Nador who arrested 25 migrants in the forest of Mount Gourougou. These are mainly illegal migrants of Sudanese and Chadian origin.
The renewable energy sector, which is booming in Morocco, is attracting the interest of Spanish companies, about ten of which will travel to the kingdom next week, notably to Rabat and Casablanca, to deepen their knowledge of the sector and exchange with public and private actors.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has reaffirmed that Ceuta and Melilla "are cities as Spanish" as Bilbao, Madrid, Granada or any other city on the peninsula and the islands.
The Spanish public prosecutor does not consider the installation by Morocco of fish farms near the Chafarinas Islands as a crime, and has therefore decided to close the investigation opened following the complaint filed by the deputy of the Popular Party (PP), Fernando Gutiérrez Díaz de Otazu.
Spain plans to install an automated entry and exit control system (EES) at the Melilla border with Morocco. It should be operational in 2023.
A young Moroccan saved a woman of Colombian origin, assaulted by her partner on a public street, in a street in Cadiz, Spain.
Former Spanish minister María Antonia Trujillo has reiterated her position on Ceuta and Melilla, and stated that "freedom of expression and information is more protected in Morocco than in Spain".