In his 1820 account, a foreign merchant in Mogador described the fear, calamities and deaths that accompanied the 1799 plague. James G. Jackson's detailed letteres addressed the rise, progress and decrease of the epidemy that killed thousands of people in Morocco.
In 2015, Morocco supported Muhammadu Buhari while running for Nigeria’s presidential election. This year, the Kingdom has chosen to back the Nigerian President through Zawia Tijaniyya.