The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya , reaffirmed on Thursday that the entry into Spain of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, was a "political" decision justified by Spain’s legendary "humanitarian tradition".
The Saragossa court has sentenced the Moroccan Mohammed AD and his wife, Hedangeline AL, of Venezuelan origin, to 34 years in prison for the murder of a businessman from Getxo (Basque Country), buried alive in Pedrola (Saragossa) in 2019.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has just extended for one month, until March 30, 2022, the closure of the border with Morocco due to the health crisis.
Over the past nine months, more than 2,500 Moroccans have applied for asylum in Spain. 360 have been deported while nearly 10,000 others have "voluntarily" returned to their country, according to Spanish authorities.
The maritime link between Morocco and Spain is tentatively resuming with the scheduled stop in Alicante on March 1st by the French shipping company La Méridionale, during the connection between the port of Tangier Med and the port of Marseille.
The municipal council of Algeciras, in its session on Friday, called on the central government to intensify negotiations with Morocco for the resumption of maritime links suspended since March 2020 and the organization this year of the Marhaba Operation.
The Spanish Senate on Thursday rejected the proposal by the Vox party to amend Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty to explicitly include the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla under NATO protection .
The body of Khaoula, the 14-year-old Moroccan girl killed in Jaen, Spain , was repatriated on Thursday to Beni Ayat, after a Muslim prayer held on Tuesday in the Great Mosque of Jaén. Her funeral will take place tomorrow, Friday.
King Mohammed VI has made available to Spain a site in Rabat to house a new Spanish school, whose construction work will last 36 months for 16.5 million euros.
The Moroccan high-speed train (TGV), Al-Boraq, is one of the seven fastest trains in the world, along with those of France, Spain and China.
The Spanish government has announced its intention to continue selling arms to Morocco, its "strategic partner", despite the latter’s manifest threats to its territorial integrity.
The Spanish government has assured that "it will act firmly" if the territorial integrity of Spain is violated by Morocco, which has announced the deployment of anti-aircraft systems in Tangier and Nador, near Ceuta and Melilla.