Ministry of the Presidency. Government of Spain (Attribution or Attribution), via Wikimedia Commons By Allie Heiniger In late July, more than 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on Morocco’s northern coast. Spanish authorities returned most of the migrants within days, but roughly 10,000 remained in Ceuta by early October, placing continued... Continue Reading →
LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Allie Heiniger On September 10, 2026, Algeria severed diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accusing Abu Dhabi of repeated “provocative or hostile” actions. Algeria expelled the Emirati ambassador and closed its airspace to UAE-registered aircraft, though it temporarily exempted commercial flights. The UAE responded... Continue Reading →
By Abby Burczyk On October 31, the United Nations Security Council backed a resolution for Western Sahara to maintain autonomy under Moroccan rule. Though Morocco has presented similar resolutions to develop governmental systems for Western Sahara since 2007, the most recent resolution was written by the United States. The Trump administration has been very supportive of... Continue Reading →
By William Crawford The Moroccan government has imposed limits on what can and cannot be said during religious addresses regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Discourse around the role the Moroccan government plays in determining the subject matter of the countries imams was reignited by socialist lawmaker Nabila Mounib, who went as far as to claim that... Continue Reading →
By William Crawford A United Nation’s Envoy has recently suggested a partition of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The rightful authority in the former Spanish colony has long been in dispute since its listing by the United Nations as a “Non-Self-Governing Territory” in 1963. Since the end of Spanish rule in the territory, both... Continue Reading →
