Politics

ABAM to meet again on Sept 20; says return to courts by some Casablanca lawyers does not point to split in ranks.

By adopting a bill granting Spanish nationality to people originating from the Sahara and their descendants, Spain’s Congress of Deputies is reviving the Franco-era legacy in the name of so-called “reparation.” This unilateral measure carries within it one final contradiction: claiming to erase the traces of the past with the instruments inherited from that very past, offering a European passport while interfering in a particularly sensitive geopolitical balance.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccan Expatriates provided details on the latest developments in Morocco-Spain relations in a statement released on Thursday.

Four parties field candidates in all 92 local and 12 regional constituencies; 227 sitting parliamentarians seek return to the Lower House.

From insults to invective, the Algerian regime has now moved from words to action by turning its back on Abu Dhabi. The Algerian authorities are thus following through on their obsessive threats and retreating further into isolation. It is a pathetic headlong flight, typical of a regime accustomed to empty bravado and to manufacturing scapegoats to conceal its failures.

The Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI) and Belgium’s development agency Enabel signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday, September 9, in Brussels to strengthen their partnership and develop new triangular cooperation projects in Africa.

Six members of the National Rally of Independents have submitted written resignations, formally ending their membership in the party weeks before the September 23, 2026 legislative elections.

The highly anticipated documents on Ceuta had barely been released before they were already fueling two opposing narratives: one implicating Morocco, the other targeting Pedro Sánchez’s handling of the crisis. The Spanish government quickly stepped in to set the record straight. The CNI had indeed detected calls circulating on social media, but it never warned of a mass arrival or estimated that 180,000 people might take part.

Official campaign for September 23 elections gets under way as parties chase the position that will give the winner first shot at forming the next government.