Between 2014 and 2016, Algeria and Libyan military officer Khalifa Haftar were on good terms. It is not the case anymore, as the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned military escalation in Libya, following the footsteps of Morocco.
In 2018, Morocco’s military spending reached $3.5 billion. During the same period, Algeria spent $9.6 billion on defense, revealed SIPRI in a recent report on global military spending.
As in 2008, Spanish voters chose to vote for the center-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Pedro Sanchez has all cards in hand to form a new government. Would PSOE’s victory reassure Morocco ?
South Africa wants the UN Security Council to condemn Morocco’s «impediment» to MINURSO’s access to local actors and its ceasefire “violations”. This pressure is believed to be behind postponing the vote on the new resolution on the Sahara.