Morocco alleges that slavery is widespread in the Tindouf refugee camps run by the Polisario Front in south-western Algeria ; Polisario denies this and claims to have eradicated slavery through awareness campaigns.

While little is known about Morocco settlement in these early times, excavations elsewhere in the Maghreb suggest an abundance of game and forests that would have been hospitable to Mesolithic hunters and gatherers.

Interest groups that formed among these elements continually pressured France to increase its control over Morocco.

Ties between these countries were strengthened when Morocco sent troops to help Saudi Arabia during the 1992 Gulf War.

Morocco claims these territories on the basis of the UN principles of decolonisation, territorial integrity and that Spanish arguments for the recovery of Gibraltar substantiate Morocco ’ s claim.

In the 13th and 14th century, these tribes migrated westwards along the northern border of the Sahara to settle in the Fezzan ( Libya ), Ifriqiya ( Tunisia ), Tlemcen ( Algeria ), Jebel Saghro ( Morocco ), and Saguia el-Hamra, ( Western Sahara ).

In these centers, they oversaw the traffic from sub-Saharan regions to Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

In these accords, Morocco was set to annex back 2 / 3 of the northern part of Western Sahara, whereas the lower third would be given to Mauritania.

Of these ' New Belgians ', 1, 200, 00 ( 49 %) are of European ancestry and 1, 350, 000 ( 51 %) are allochtonen i. e. from non-Western countries ( Morocco, Turkey, Congo, Pakistan, Algeria ).

The motivation for these measures was a desire to repair a perceived injustice, the need of a collaborative base of natives in Spanish Morocco, and an attempt to attract the sympathy of wealthy European Sephardis like the Pereiras of France.

Following the 1492 expulsion from Spain, and the subsequent expulsions in Portugal ( 1497 ), these Jews, the nascent Sephardim, settled mainly in the Ottoman Empire ( primarily in the province of Bosnia, Anatolia, the Levant and Ottoman North Africa ), Morocco and Algeria, southern France, Italy, Spanish North America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic ( Southwest United States New Mexico ( Hispano ), Texas ( Tejano ), Arizona, and Mexico ), Spanish South America and Portuguese Brazil and Goa, as well as the Netherlands, whence a number of families continued on to the former Dutch possessions of Curaçao, Suriname, Aruba and New Netherland ( now New York ), England ( as well as English colonies such as Barbados and Jamaica ), Germany, Denmark, Poland, Austria and Hungary.

Some monarchies employ a mix of these selection processes ( Malaysia, Monaco, Tonga, Jordan, Morocco ), providing for both an identifiable line of succession as well as authority for the monarch, dynasty or other institution to alter the line in specific instances without changing the general law of succession.

The jizya was eliminated in Algeria and Tunisia in the 19th century, but continued to be collected in Morocco until the first decade of the 20th century ( these three dates coincide with the French colonization of these countries ).

In Morocco some of these mixed forests are habitat to the endangered primate, Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus.

He conducted the negotiations with Tunis and Tripoli in 1685, and those with Morocco in 1687 ; and the zeal, tact and linguistic knowledge he manifested in these and other transactions with Eastern courts were at last rewarded in 1692 by his appointment to the Arabic chair in the Collège Royal de France, which he filled until his death.

While Moroccan cuisine for the most part remained outside of these relatively recent and contemporary influences, although Moroccan cuisine itself have roots dating back to the heyday of the kingdom of Numidia modern-day Algeria and kingdom of Mauretania modern-day Morocco.

Recently these trips have been to India, Brazil, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Morocco, Indonesia, Norway and Honduras.

The black berbers ( haratin ) of the south were the hereditary class of qanat diggers in Morocco who build and repair these systems.

Effectively, after the completion of the wall, Morocco has controlled the bulk of Western Sahara territory that lies to the north and west of it, calling these the kingdom's " Southern Provinces ".

The Netherlands concluded recruitment agreements with countries like Turkey and Morocco, allowing people from these countries to stay in the Netherlands ( smaller numbers of Muslim immigrants in this time came from Tunisia and Algeria ).

Interest groups that formed among these elements continually pressured France to increase its control over Morocco.

In 1956 King Mohammed V of Morocco sent a message to Buchman: " I thank you for all you have done for Morocco in the course of these last testing years.

Morocco makes similar claims against Spain over the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

Taya made his first visit to Morocco in October 1985 ( prior to visits to Algeria and Tunisia ) in the wake of Moroccan claims that Polisario guerrillas were again traversing Mauritanian territory.

When Morocco gained its indepence in the 1950s, the country also restated its claims over the still Spanish Western Sahara.

Morocco claims Tifariti is part of a buffer zone and the holding the congress there violates a ceasefire between the two parties.

Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas and his formal Army, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979, with Morocco moving to annex that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control over the majority of the territory.

Although Morocco claims that no recognition is required, Moroccan sovereignty over the territory is supported by the Arab League and by some other states as a policy of deliberate ambiguity.

* Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity ; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.

After Spain announced its intention to abandon the territory in 1975, the united front presented by the Maghreb nations quickly disintegrated, as a result of Morocco, and subsequently Mauritania, staking claims to the territory.

This agreement violated a United Nations ( UN ) resolution that declared all historical claims on the part of Mauritania or Morocco to be insufficient to justify territorial absorption and drew heavy Algerian criticism.

These differences were composed, by the Anglo-French entente, and in 1904 a convention between the two countries secured the recognition of French claims in Morocco in exchange for non-interference with the British occupation of Egypt.

The Royal Family of Morocco also claims ancestry from Imam Ali but they do not use Hashemite as their dynastic name.

For a comprehensive list of state recognitions of the competing claims by SADR and Morocco, see Legal status of Western Sahara.

Morocco claims sovereignty over the Spanish North African territories, plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Relations with Mauritania were tense too, as Morocco only recognized it as a sovereign country in 1969, nearly a decade after Mauritania's independence, because of Moroccan claims on the country ( see Great Morocco ).

As part of settling differences, France agreed not to dispute British control of Egypt, if Britain supported France's claims to Morocco.

" The journal also claims to publish " groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan.

GICM claims to intend to install a fundamentalist Islamist regime in Morocco, but has members around Western Europe and French Canada as well.

The Polisario Front restricts its claims to the colonially-defined Western Sahara, holding no claim to, for example, the Sahrawi-populated Tarfaya Strip in Morocco, or any part of Mauritania.

These claims are based on the allegations that until 1952, Tindouf was part of French Morocco and was administratively attached to Agadir, and promises made by parts of the Algerian underground during that country's war for independence.

The territory represented one of the last remnants of the Spanish Empire, and was abandoned following international pressure, mainly UN decolonisation resolutions, as well as internal pressure from native populations and the external claims of Morocco and Mauritania.

While Morocco claims the Spanish-held plazas de soberanía enclaves and islands on or near the Moroccan coast as part of Greater Morocco, it has never filed a formal claim to Alborán.