Algeria, in response to French President Macron's recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara, has excluded French companies from a wheat import tender and banned French wheat as a supply option.
As in September 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union has once again ruled in favor of Polisario’s claims, rejecting the appeals submitted by the European Commission and other parties in their entirety.
After the attempted coup in July 1971, Hassan II became suspicious of the Americans to the point that CIA agents in Morocco were unaware of the Green March project. A State Department document states that Henry Kissinger, the former United States Secretary of State, was certain that the king was planning an attack against the Sahara controlled at the time by the Spanish. Kissinger shared the information with the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.