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A person is killed and three more people are injured during a rocket attack by the Polisario Front in Smara, in the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara.
2023-10-29

In association football, FIFA awards the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, making it the first FIFA World Cup tournament to be hosted in North Africa. The opening ceremony will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, to mark the 100th anniversary of the competition.
2023-10-4

A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain.
2021-08-17

Morocco suspends all flights to Spain and France due to the worsening of the epidemiologic situation in Europe.
2021-03-29

The foreign ministries of Spain and Morocco announce they will hold talks to resolve a dispute over territorial water rights in the North Atlantic, caused by the Moroccan parliament passing two laws that extended its claims to the coast of Western Sahara earlier this week. Spain expressed concerns that these laws would encroach on its claims near the Canary Islands.
2020-01-24

Morocco suspends contact with the European Union over a European court ruling that invalidates the bloc's farm trade deal with Rabat, and saying it should exclude the disputed Moroccan-controlled territory of Western Sahara.
2016-02-25

Fourteen people are arrested in Spain and Morocco for allegedly trying to recruit people to ISIL.
2015-08-25

Four-hundred African migrants charge past Moroccan border forces by throwing rocks, trying to storm border fences separating Spain's North African enclave Melilla, but Spanish guards repel them.
2015-02-1

Morocco arrests 96 people it accuses of inciting violence during last Monday's deadly police raid on the Gdaim Izik camp in Western Sahara. Half a dozen appear before a military court, including activist Annaama Asfari.
2010-11-13

The death toll from clashes at a camp in Western Sahara between Sahrawi protesters and Moroccan police rises to eleven.
2010-11-9