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Claude Fraissinet, Macron's future party rep in Western Sahara

Western Sahara business expert Claude Fraissinet has offered to open a committee of Emmanuel Macron's party in Dakhla. He wants to run the office with Mirelle Malbos, owner of a tourism business with Mohammed Vi's cousin Princess Noufissa El Yacoubi. [...]

Published on 19/04/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Morocco
Rabat rejects Eiffage's Dakhla port bid in a diplomatic tit for tat over Western Sahara

Morocco is furious about France's refusal to recognise its sovereignty over the Western Sahara and has retaliated by elimininating French construction group Eiffage from the bidding for the contract to build the port of Dakhla Atlantique in the contested territory.

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France, Morocco
Rabat stage-manages Western Sahara trip for French MPs

With the assistance of lobbyist Omar Alaoui, Rabat is planning a jamboree for French MPs supportive of Morocco's claim to sovereignty over Western Sahara. It is likely to involve a flight on the inaugural Royal Air Maroc flight between Paris and Dakhla in June.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 23.04.2021

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Morocco orders Turkish armed drones as hostilities resume in Western Sahara

Turkey's Baykar, which has close links with Erdogan, is to supply attack drones to the Moroccan army. The contract will not radically change the military balance between Morocco and Algeria but has been signed just as hostilities are resuming against Polisario in Western Sahara.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 16.04.2021

Algeria
Defence relations remain frosty after French PM cancels another trip to Algiers

Military cooperation between France and Algeria is at a standstill after the French PM Jean Castex cancelled his visit to Algiers planned on 10 April, thus exasperating his counterpart Abdelaziz Djerad.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 13.04.2021

The visit of French Prime Minister Jean Castex to Algiers, scheduled for April 10, has been cancelled.

Morocco
Somagec, Eiffage and Archirodon chase Dakhla port project

The battle for the estimated 10.2-billion-dirham contract to build the future port of Dakhla Atlantique has begun. On December 3, [...]

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Tourism in Dakhla is royal family business

Mohammed VI’s cousin, Princess Lalla Noufissa El Yacoubi and her family are looking to establish themselves in the hotel business in the Dakhla area, where there is enormous tourist potential. Their investment is reinforcing the "kitesurf diplomacy" that Morocco has [.

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Morocco
Claude Fraissinet, Macron's future party rep in Western Sahara

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Rabat rejects Eiffage's Dakhla port bid in a diplomatic tit for tat over Western Sahara

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Rabat stage-manages Western Sahara trip for French MPs

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Morocco orders Turkish armed drones as hostilities resume in Western Sahara

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Somagec, Eiffage and Archirodon chase Dakhla port project

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