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African Union calls for probe after migrants die at Morocco-Spain border

African Union demanded a probe into the treatment of migrants and refugees at the Morocco-Spain land border after at least 23 died in the attempted crossing.

Refugee, migrant crossing at Spain’s Melilla results in record death toll

The arrival of nearly 2,000 mostly sub-Saharan African refugees and migrants at Spain's Melilla enclave has resulted in the highest death toll of refugees and migrants at the border in years.

Morocco bans British film about daughter of Prophet Muhammad

“The Lady of Heaven” film, written by Shia Muslim cleric Yasser al Habib, has been banned in a number of Muslim countries for its "falsification of facts".

Algeria suspends 2002 friendship pact with Spain, bans imports

Algiers accuses Madrid of "contributing directly to the degradation of the situation" in disputed Western Sahara, over which Spain recently ended its neutrality and now backs Morocco's claim.

Dozens of migrants, asylum seekers missing off Spain's Canary Islands

Migrants who survived say the boat was carrying 41 people when it set off for the Canaries in a particularly dangerous route due to strong currents.

Spain's borders with North Africa will remain closed

Frontiers of Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa were closed in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic and were supposed to be opened but Madrid announced those borders will remain closed for 15 more days.

A Moroccan tradition: Aldurus Alhasania

The Ottoman Empire had its famed huzur debates. Morocco has the ‘Aldurus Alhasania’.

Algeria threatens to cut gas contract with Spain

Algeria warns it would terminate gas supplies to Spain if Madrid re-exported it to Morocco, a neighbour with which it is locked in a dispute over the Western Sahara region.

Algeria seeks 'clarifications' from Spain over Western Sahara policy U-turn

Algeria says return of its envoy to Spain depends on Madrid "clarifying" its stance on Western Sahara – a territory where Polisario fighters have waged a long-armed struggle for independence from Morocco.

Algeria accuses Morocco of carrying 'targeted killings' in border region

Algeria condemns what it calls an attack by Morocco against a convoy of trucks in the border area between Mauritania and disputed Western Sahara, saying it will jeopardise UN attempts to ease regional tensions.

Western Sahara's Polisario cuts ties with Spain over autonomy support

Polisario Front voices frustration over Madrid's U-turn on the conflict and support for autonomy to settle Morocco's decades-old conflict with the Polisario independence movement.

Morocco, Spain end rift after Madrid reverses stance on Western Sahara

Morocco's King Mohammed VI hosts Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez in a landmark visit ending a year-long diplomatic crisis, with both sides agreeing to turn a new page in ties, says Rabat.