While he was determined to run the Marathon des Sables barefoot in the Moroccan Sahara, Loury Lag, the 35-year-old French explorer, was "disqualified by medical decision". He is thus forced to abandon the race.
It’s official! Algeria is boycotting the next men’s Africa Cup of Nations handball, scheduled for January 13-23, 2022 in Morocco. The reason is the diplomatic rift, but above all, the decision of the organizers to hold this competition in Laâyoune and Guelmim.
During the Council of Ministers meeting on August 30, 2021 chaired by the Algerian Head of State, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, several appointments were made at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Diplomat Amar Belani will be in charge of the Sahara issue and the Maghreb countries. An appointment that comes in a context of the breakdown of diplomatic relations between Algeria and Morocco .
Following the severance of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Algeria , José Manuel Albares, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed his country’s desire to contribute to a climate of calm, tranquility and good neighborliness in the western Mediterranean.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has decided to delete a tweet containing a non-compliant map of Morocco. In this tweet, the kingdom was cited among the countries that received doses of the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Johnson & Johnson laboratory.
During a visit to Morocco , the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Joey Hood, reassured the Moroccan authorities that the United States maintains its position on the Moroccanness of the Sahara. A statement that reinforces Rabat, which feared the reversal of this position.
The municipal council of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) took place under police protection last week. The reason is that tempers flared during a deliberation on the financing of a solidarity project for Sahrawi children in Tindouf.
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, has called on Morocco to stop targeting activists and journalists who defend human rights issues on the Sahara file.
Morocco has just achieved a new diplomatic feat. The position of the United States on their recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara remains "unchanged". This announcement was made by Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department.
The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) carried out airborne and ground maneuvers during the Moroccan-American combined exercise African Lion 2021, which took place from June 7 to 18 in several regions of Morocco, including Mahbès in the Sahara.
A local source denied any bombing targeting Smara following the release of images of explosions that allegedly occurred in the vicinity of the city in the Moroccan Sahara on Saturday.
Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, "Minister of Foreign Affairs" of the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)" reacted to the diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Spain. He claims that the kingdom "wanted" Spain and the European Union to recognize, like the United States, its sovereignty over the Sahara.