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The Sand War (Arabic: حَرْبُ الرِّمَال, romanized: Ḥarb ar-Rimāl) was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964.
In 1994, Morocco accused the Algerian Secret Service of being behind the Marrakech attack of 1994, where two Spaniards were killed, [19] [20] and imposed visa requirement on Algerians and nationals of Algerian origin. [19] The immediate response by the Algerian government was the closure of the border with Morocco. [19]
Relations between Morocco and Algeria have been marred by several crises since their independence, particularly the 1963 Sand War, the Western Sahara War of 1975–1991, the closing of the Algeria–Morocco border in 1994, an ongoing disagreement over the political status of Western Sahara and the signing of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement (as part of the Abraham Accords) in 2020.
The efforts invested by Algeria in the Western Sahara conflict, especially at the level of its international relations, are comparable to the ones of an involved party such as Morocco. Morocco's position is that Algeria is part of the conflict and uses the Sahara issue for geopolitical interests that date from the Cold War, claiming that this ...
Morocco's deadly earthquake prompted Algeria, which cut ties with its neighbour two years ago, to put aside the countries' bad relations and open its air space to aid flights. The border between ...
[3] [8] As Algeria slid into civil war in the 1990s, relations once again soured, with Algeria closing the border in 1994. [9] Relations thawed slightly with the advent of peace in Algeria in the early 2000s, though at present the border remains closed. Travel and trade between the two countries is allowed, but must be done either by air or sea.
King Mohammed VI said on Saturday Morocco hopes for a return to normality and open borders with Algeria amid severed diplomatic ties. Borders between the Maghreb region's two most populous nations ...
Algerian forces killed two men and detained a third after they strayed across Morocco's maritime border with Algeria on water scooters, according to Moroccan media reports. A French citizen was ...