Mauritanian president Ould Abdel Aziz has seized all oportunities to send significant messages to the Moroccan authorities. On the 25th of December he sent a military delegation to take part to one of the Front's military exercises. On the 27th of February and May the 10th, he received two of the Polisario's emissaries.
A demonstration has marked the 45th anniversary of the Polisario’s creation. Festivities were reportedly interrupted by a wave of anger targeting the Front’s leadership.
On the 18th of December 1975, Omar Benjelloun, a journalist, trade union activist and founding father of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) was murdered in Casablanca. His assassination has been a significant turning point in the history of the Moroccan political scene which lost one of its most committed actors. Flashback.