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Algeria calls for direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front

09/06/2022 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. On a visit to Algeria, Staffan de Mistura visited the Tindouf camps, met with the Secretary General of the Polisario Front and the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs to try to make progress on the Western Sahara issue.

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Emmanuel Macron on "friendship visit" to Algiers and Oran to renew France's ties with Algeria

08/24/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / FRANCE. The president of the French Republic visits Algeria for three days to renew ties with the country and meet with the Algerian population, especially the youth.

Engie and Sonatrach extend their gas supply agreement

07/07/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / FRANCE. Sonatrach and the French energy group Engie are extending their natural gas purchase and sale agreement and want to extend it to LNG.

Responsibilities in question after the attempted mass entry of migrants in Melilla

06/27/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. Three days after the tragedy of Melilla, in the North of Morocco, which cost the life of thirty-seven migrants, everyone seems to pass the quid.

Algiers castigates EU intervention in its bilateral dispute with Spain

06/14/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / SPAIN. Despite the suspension of a friendship and cooperation treaty, the Algerian government assures that this decision will not affect gas deliveries to Spain.

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Algeria toughens sanctions against Spain with a boycott of Iberian products

06/09/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / SPAIN. After unilaterally breaking off all diplomatic relations with Spain, Algeria decided to suspend a friendship treaty signed in 2002 with Madrid and banned imports from Spain.

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Ceuta and Melilla border gates to be raised again

05/17/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. The announcement of the forthcoming reopening of the border posts of the Spanish enclaves in Morocco of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after their closure, constitutes a new fruit of the détente between the two countries.

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Gas further cools relations between Algeria and Spain

04/28/2022 | Industry

ALGERIA / SPAIN / MOROCCO. Relations between Algeria and Spain, disrupted since March 2022, are experiencing a new episode of tension as Madrid wants to send back to Morocco part of the Algerian gas it receives.

Morocco and Spain officially end diplomatic crisis between the two kingdoms

04/08/2022 | Society / Institutions

MOROCCO / SPAIN. After almost a year of crisis, the time has come for Spain and Morocco to return to more friendly relations and a consolidation of bilateral cooperation beneficial to both countries.

Israel recognises Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara

03/29/2022 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. At the Arab-Israeli summit held in the Negev desert, Israel affirmed its support for Morocco's autonomy proposal for Western Sahara.

Madrid joins Rabat's position on the future of Western Sahara

03/22/2022 | Society / Institutions

SPAIN / MOROCCO. The Spanish government is making a complete turnaround of its forty-six year old policy by joining the position of Morocco and its autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

European Commission releases €18m in humanitarian aid to North Africa

02/17/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / EGYPT / LIBYA. The European Commission will have a budget of €18 million in 2022 to help the most vulnerable people in North Africa due to conflicts.

Guterres calls for "once and for all resolution of the Western Sahara conflict"

01/25/2022 | Society / Institutions

MAGHREB. Conflict resolution is one of the five priorities of the UN Secretary General who wants dialogue to resume in Western Sahara.

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Albania becomes a member of the UN Security Council

01/03/2022 | Society / Institutions

ALBANIA. Since Saturday 1 January 2022, Albania has joined - together with Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Gabon and Ghana - the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member.

Western Sahara: An Algerian-Moroccan condominium as a political solution to the fifty-year old conflict

12/07/2021 | Reflections

For forty-six years, the realisation of the Greater Maghreb has been blocked by the absence of a diplomatic solution concerning Western Sahara, a...

Morocco signs a security cooperation agreement with Israel

11/25/2021 | Industry

ISRAEL/MOROCCO. After the political, the military and the economic. One year after the normalisation of relations between Israel and Morocco, the two countries have just signed a historic security cooperation agreement on 24 November.

Western Sahara issue further divides the Maghreb

11/02/2021 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. While the Minurso mandate has just been extended by one year, Staffan de Mistura starts his new mandate as UN envoy for Western Sahara in the middle of a regional crisis.

UN Secretary General calls for resumption of political process on Western Sahara

10/05/2021 | Society / Institutions

WESTERN SAHARA. In his annual report on the situation in Western Sahara, Antonio Guterres regrets a "greatly deteriorated situation" over the past year.

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Algeria closes its airspace to all Moroccan planes

09/23/2021 | Transport

ALGERIA / MOROCCO. The situation is getting tougher between Algeria and Morocco with the closure of Algerian airspace to all Moroccan planes.

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Forest fires reduce to ashes the incandescent relations between Algeria and Morocco

08/26/2021 | Society / Institutions

ALGERIA / MOROCCO. If the relations between Algiers and Rabat were never with the beautiful fixed since the independence of the Cherifian Kingdom, the storm, which smouldered since the beginning of the summer, fuelled by several thunderclaps, ended up causing a diplomatic power cut.

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