Morocco has reportedly summoned Algeria’s ambassador in a secretive fashion

Morocco has reportedly summoned Algeria’s ambassador to Rabat, Adelhamid Abdaoui, who has been in office since September 2019, French-language newspaper Le360 reports.

This took place on Tuesday, June 9, when the spokesperson of the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry Belaid Mohand Oussaid said that Morocco’s former consul in Oran left the country at the request of Algeria. The Algerian diplomat was summoned in a secretive fashion and no official press release has addressed the matter.

Contrary to that, Morocco’s Foreign Affairs Ministry issued two press releases in January 2014 and April 2017 when it recalled the Algerian ambassador.

The same thing was done in May 2016, when Morocco summoned the American ambassador to protest against the 2015 human rights report conducted by the US Department of State.

This was also the case with the French ambassador, who was summoned in June 2014 amid a diplomatic crisis between France and the Kingdom.

For the record, Algeria has rejected a viral video that showed Morocco’s consul in Oran calling Algeria an «enemy country» when talking to a group of Moroccans that had been stranded in Algeria over the coronavirus lockdown. The diplomat left Oran weeks later.