After observing restraint in the face of harassment by the Polisario in El Guerguerate, Morocco decided to deploy the army to secure its border with Mauritania.
After having set up an International Cooperation Agency to compete with Morocco on the African scene, the Algerian president aims to bring changes to the army’s way of functioning. As part of the constitutional revision project, he plans to send soldiers abroad to take part in peacekeeping missions in Africa and elsewhere.
By the end of the 17th century, sultan Moulay Ismail decided to forcibly enslave all «blacks» in the Kingdom, including those who were free. Inspired by the Saadi dynasty, the sultan wanted to create an army based on slavery which angered Muslim scholars in Fez.