First Independent Mena Newspaper
Sahraoui woman Khadijatou Mahmoud urged the Spanish judiciary to activate a search warrant against Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali who is currently hospitalized at a Spanish hospital. Khadijatou said she was raped in 2010 by Ghali, who was then the separatist front’s representative in Algiers, whom she sued at a Spanish court the same year. […]
A Moroccan man suspected of stabbing to death six family members, including two minors, while they slept has been arrested in Spain, police said Sunday. The unidentified man is wanted in Morocco over his alleged role in the murders in February of his brother and his sister-in-law, as well as their two adult children […]
Morocco’s foreign ministry issued a strong worded statement in which it expressed its disappointment at the Spanish decision to allow into its hospitals head of the Polisario militia Ibrahim Ghali who is wanted on war crime charges. Ghali entered Spain using an Algerian passport with a false name in order to shun arrest after several […]
Moroccan Foreign Ministry has expressed its resentment and strong rejection of the Spanish move to hospitalize Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali in one of its hospitals after he entered Spain with an Algerian passport using a fake name. Le360 and El Pais both reported, citing diplomatic sources, that the Spanish Ambassador was heard at Rabat’s Foreign […]
Spanish victims of Polisario terrorism and war crimes are putting pressure on their government to arrest the leader of the Algeria-backed separatist group who is receiving medical care in Logrono. Ghali, who is wanted by the Spanish justice, entered Spain using an Algerian passport with a fake name to avoid arrest. Ghali “should be arrested […]
The revival of the decades-old project to connect Africa to Europe via the strait of Gibraltar was discussed at a virtual meeting Wednesday between the Moroccan and Spanish Transport Ministers Abdelkader Amara and Jose Luis Abalos. This meeting, held through video-conference as part of the two countries’ mutual interest in further strengthening their bilateral […]
Agents of the Spanish National Police in the town of Basauri, in Vizcaya, have arrested this week a Polisario activist for his alleged involvement in a crime of terrorist threats. The individual is accused of using his profiles on social networks to encourage attacks and violent actions against Moroccan institutions and people both in Spain […]
Algeria’s Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum was set back on his heels after a trip to Spain in which he failed to return with a statement backing his country’s support for separatism. Boukadoum was rather viewed as an official from a country whose nationals continue to top those who die while making the risky sea journey […]
Moroccan authorities have decided to temporarily suspend air links to and from France and Spain, extending thus the list of countries with which air links have been banned, in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. The suspension of air links with the two European countries comes into effect as of Tuesday March 30, […]
Members of a visiting Basque economic delegation said they were “surprised” and “impressed” by the quality of infrastructure in the city of Laayoune, expressing their keenness to examine investment prospects in the Moroccan Sahara, particularly in the sectors of fisheries and renewable energies. “We were surprised and impressed by the infrastructures that exist in […]