Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali reacts after Spain’s decision to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara. He condemns the "betrayal" of Pedro Sanchez and insists on the need to go to a self-determination referendum to "liberate the Sahrawi people".
Morocco is preparing to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) via the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline (GME) during the month of Ramadan. Last March, the kingdom and Spain had concluded an agreement in this regard.
The Moroccan Abdelillah Touzni, known as "Le Toui", is a "dangerous criminal" accused of alleged thefts on six people he drugged before dispossessing them of their belongings in nightclubs. He faces more than 25 years in prison.
The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured that the official visit that President Pedro Sanchez will make to Morocco in "the next few days" will bear tangible "fruits" of the new relationship between the two countries.
Since Spain has revised its position on the Moroccanness of the Sahara, this is the first time that Brahim Ghali has broken his silence. In an interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo, the Polisario Front leader accused Spain of once again abandoning the Sahrawis.
Many Moroccan women crossed the border to give birth in hospitals in Ceuta and Melilla. Since the closure of the borders, this movement is no longer possible, which has led to a 50% drop in the number of births in the autonomous cities.
For a few months, contacts between the United States and Spain on the one hand and Morocco on the other hand have intensified; which suggests that the Moroccan authorities have acted in the shadows for the change in Spain’s position on the Sahara.
Diplomat and former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Jorge Dezcallar, argues that Morocco "will never abandon" its claims on Ceuta and Melilla, despite Spain’s support for the Sahara autonomy plan .
A 15-year-old Moroccan minor was arrested in Spain on Wednesday for the murder of a 41-year-old Spanish woman considered the friend of his grandfather with whom he lives in an apartment in the Madrid region.
Spanish soldiers deployed in Ceuta and Melilla, and those who have served in the garrisons of the Al Hoceima rock and the Chaffarines islands, fear that the government of Pedro Sanchez, in its dynamic of appeasement of tensions with Morocco, will cede them to the kingdom.
The Russian ambassador to Algeria, Igor Belyaev, deplored the abrupt change in Spain’s position on the Sahara, recalling that it has a "historical responsibility" towards the Sahrawi people, that of completing the decolonization process.
The former Spanish Prime Minister, Felipe González, supported his country’s new position on the Sahara, considering the Moroccan autonomy initiative as "the best solution" to definitively settle the regional dispute.