The US State Department and the CIA are now using the map of Morocco integrating the territory of the Sahara. This should reassure the kingdom at a time when Algerian lobbies and supporters of the Polisario are calling on the Biden administration to call into question the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The Court of First Instance in Casablanca decided last Thursday to postpone the trial of the American citizen of Moroccan origin to March 11. The so-called "3roubi fi merikan" is being prosecuted in pre-trial detention for insulting institutions, national bodies and state officials.
The U.S. Embassy in Rabat has alerted Americans to the spread of the coronavirus in Morocco. It calls on them to reconsider their travel plans in light of the epidemiological situation.
"Morocco is one of the United States’ strongest partners in the fight against terrorism." This is what Major General Andrew Rowling, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe and Africa, declared.
In a letter addressed to the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, 250 international personalities from 25 countries have welcomed the American decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The US President is also invited to support the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the only way to end this long-standing conflict.
The health crisis related to the coronavirus could eliminate 700,000 jobs in Morocco . This is revealed by a study carried out by the American firm McKinsey Global Institute.
Spain fears that the new President of the United States, Joe Biden, will maintain the decree recognizing American sovereignty of Morocco over the Sahara. This is at least what the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reveals.
Nasser Bourita , Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, has terminated the lobbying contracts of public relations agencies led by the JPC Strategies firm, which were defending Morocco’s interests under the Trump administration. The kingdom has not, for the time being, appointed any other agency to influence the Biden administration.
Canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the African Lion military exercise will take place this year in June in three countries, including Morocco, with some new features. The U.S. Army is considering consolidating the European Army and the African Army into a single four-star command.
Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert Kennedy Center for Human Rights, close to the separatist Aminatou Haidar , calls on the current US President, Joe Biden, to cancel the decree recognizing US sovereignty over the Sahara.
Alex Lasry, son of Marc Lasry, an American billionaire born into a Jewish-Moroccan family from Marrakech, is a candidate in the 2022 Senate elections. He aims to win the position of Senator for Wisconsin.
In the phone call he had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday, current US President Joe Biden affirmed "US support for the recent normalization of relations between Israel and countries in the Arab and Muslim world." This is reassuring for Morocco .