Short presentational grey lineThe main crossing between Morocco and Algeria is called Zouj Beghal, which translates as “Two Donkeys”. No-one understands that more than the communities that live along the donkey border and who crossed clandestinely for decades on end. It felt surreal looking a few hundred metres out of the caboose and seeing Moroccan gendarmes and border patrols. The bloc, which consists of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, could have been one of the continent’s and region’s superpowers. Yet the dream will remain just that so long as the two governments in Morocco and Algeria do not change their ways.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 04, 2021 23:37 UTC