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UK considers building a tunnel linking Gibraltar and Tangier

The possibility is being considered by Boris Johnson's executive to strengthen commercial ties with Morocco

Diego Urteaga

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PHOTO/AP - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London on 20 January 2020

The possibility of building a connection between the Iberian Peninsula and the African continent is once again on the table. However, it is not Spain that has taken up this initiative, which has been explored for almost half a century, but the United Kingdom. London, or rather Boris Johnson, is determined to take advantage of the trade opportunities that may arise from its new status as a former partner of the European Union. And connecting Gibraltar to Morocco through Tangier is one of them.

The British premier's cabinet would be considering, in collaboration with the Moroccan government, taking up a project that has already been started previously by Spain and Morocco, of a tunnel to connect the British Overseas Territory Gibraltar with the Moroccan city of Tangiers. At the time, Spain began the construction of the tunnel in Cadiz, but after two years, work on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar was abandoned due to maintenance problems and flooding.

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AFP/JORGE GUERRERO - A man checks his luggage while waiting to board the ferries to Tangier at the port of Algeciras on 27 July 2019

In principle, the most plausible option is an underwater tunnel of about 30 kilometres long, similar to the Eurotunnel that connects the island of Great Britain with France, built at the end of the last century and with a length of 50 kilometres. In 2013, it is projected to exceed a turnover of more than one billion euros for the first time in its history, and it seems that the United Kingdom wants to repeat this engineering success and exploit its commercial potential.

Morocco would see this project in a good light, not only because of the facilities that this would bring for example to the always multitudinous operation of the Strait, when thousands of Moroccan citizens travel from different points of Europe to Morocco and collapse the port areas of southern Spain. In Rabat it is also seen as an option for boosting the commercial role of the north of the country in the respective Mediterranean areas, which is centred, among other things, on the port of Tangiers-Med, whose expansion was completed just a year and a half ago.

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PHOTO/REUTERS - Overview of the Tangier-Med container port at Ksar Sghir, near the coastal city of Tangier, Morocco

Relations between the two capitals have been strengthened in recent years, once the Brexit was confirmed as a new reality for the United Kingdom, as a means of diversifying and strengthening trade ties in an attempt to mitigate the economic impact of its withdrawal from the European Union.

Before coming to power, Boris Johnson, in his capacity as British foreign minister, was responsible for initiating this new strategic relationship with the Alaouite kingdom. He did so through a series of meetings with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, in the British capital, where issues related to the economy, culture and security were discussed.

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PHOTO/REUTERS - Prince Henry of the United Kingdom meets Saad Eddine El Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco, during the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, UK, on 20 January 2020

Moroccan agricultural products can replace Spanish, Portuguese and Italian products now that the United Kingdom is outside the EU, and this is just one of the areas where the two countries can come closer together. Of course, the tourism sector is another of them, and that is why Morocco is also investing heavily in its development in the north of the country, where the connection between Tangiers and Gibraltar could be a major incentive.

At last year's United Kingdom-Africa summit, it was already possible to see how well the Moroccan and British authorities were attuned to each other. During the summit, Morocco offered itself to the United Kingdom as a gateway to the African continent. This growing relationship was consolidated this past summer with the signing of several trade agreements between the two countries to reduce or directly eliminate tariffs on a number of fruit and vegetable products.

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Thérèse River (1901-1970), an unknown ethnologist in Morocco. At the Ethnography Museum of Trocadero, from 1933 he was in charge of the department dedicated to White Africa and the Levante. In December 1934, she left with Germaine Tillion to Algeria, in the Aures, to conduct a sociological and ethnological investigation. 857 items were reported and 3000 photographs taken. Its archives on the Aures gather around twenty field "notebooks", the mission's linguistic questionnaire, the captions of its photographs, the inventories of the collected objects, the mission report, the publications planned and the texts of some lectures. The results of the mission will be presented in 1943 at the Museum of Man in the L'Aurès exhibition. Thérèse Rivière took thousands of photographs during her ethnographic missions, mainly in the Aures in Algeria (1934-1937) but also on short missions to Morocco (1937), again in Algeria (1937-1939) and Spain (1939). She mostly uses a Leica device. Starting in 1937, she preferred the Rolleiflex2, which she used according to the circumstances, favoring a "participative" vision presented as a "visual ethnographer both cartoonist and photographer". Missing with the deportation of Germaine Tillion, in 1942, and the long hospital lockdown suffered by Thérèse Rivière starting in 1948, the photographs were rediscovered in the early 2000s, but no text giving information about her missions to Morocco has ever been presented to this day.

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First hydrogen-powered car.
Made in Morocco

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This is a habit well known among Touaregs and desert inhabitants: when a Touareg is sleeping or resting, it draws a circle around it and puts its stick under it in a certain direction... What is the reason behind this???

When a Touareg is tired of the length of the road on a desert journey, it chooses a place to lie down or sleep to rest, it draws a circle around it to

immunize yourself against snakes, scorpions and other things, and this circle won't be surrounded by these insects and reptiles. Waking up on any road, it goes, especially when the place is flat and there are no signs, to avoid getting lost in the vast desert.

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AT THE HEART OF THE ATLAS. Mission in Morocco 1904-1905.

By the Marquis of Segonzac, Emile Larose, Bookkeeper-publisher, Paris 1910. 800 pages,

with 178 photos, 14 cards in text 1899-1905.

This book can be consulted entirely online:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6209642w/f9.item

At the same time, a pack of maps at 1/250,000 was published giving the details and profile of the itinerary followed by the Segonzac Mission under the title: Itineraries in Morocco, 1904-1905. Ed. H. Barrier, Paris 1910.

Marquis René de Segonzac, former cavalry officer, worthy successor to Vicomte Charles de Foucauld (1882-1883), was one of the first French to face the unknown Moroccan. In 1899, it first entered by walking between Mogador, Agadir, Tiznit and Taroudant. In 1901-1902, he traveled all the north of the country, the Rif and especially the Beraber country, so far unexplored, of the Middle Atlas. He went to climb the giant of the Moroccan mountains, Ari Aïach (1), from which he descended, like waters, following the valley of Moulouia. At the end of 1904, for the mission assigned to him by the Committee of Morocco (2), the explorer acknowledged that the Middle and the Grand Atlas were well separated by a very sharp depression, as the hole of the Inaouen Oued clearly separated the Middle Atlas from the mountains from the Rif. The opposite valleys of the Moulouia and the oued el Abid, a tribute to the Um er Rebia, continued without the threshold raised between them presenting a serious obstacle. So there existed, between the plain of Marrakech and Algeria, the passage of a future trade route, a day exploited. Throughout the rest of his exploration, he made some interesting observations. His dangerous misadventure in the North of the Anti-Atlas that prevented him from pushing further south, to the Oed Noun, a prisoner of a chleuh, living half plunder and half the product of their gardens grown by slaves, the Marquis of Segonzac managed to be tolerated, then almost adopted, at point that he had some trouble avoiding becoming the son-in-law of his wife...geolier. The narrative of his captivity showed well what to think of the "Moroccan fanaticism" where he had as much admiration as fear for the Roumi thought capable of doing wonders. The captive was forced to practice medicine throughout the neighborhood, perhaps he owed life to the pharmacy box seized in his luggage. Reading even the most moving and dramatic pages of his book tracing his journey deserves the attention of PMs who wish to know the Moroccan South of another era... When we think about the conditions in which the Marquis of Segonzac travelled, we feel even more respect for his work. From Foucauld traveled through the Bled Siba disguised as a Jew, René de Segonzac made his last journey as a follower of a little sheriff who pretended to be the relative of the famous Ma el Aïnin. It is under the constant threat of betrayal that the elements of his extremely complete work were gathered. It took a remarkable unconsciousness to work in such conditions. We needed this beautiful skull, carefree in appearance but applied and serious, which characterized the best of the French at the time.

(1) At the time, the Tubkal had not yet been explored, Ayachi was considered the highest peak in Morocco.

(2) The Committee of Morocco included the societies of Geography Paris; Commercial Geography of Paris; Geography of North Africa (Algiers); Normandy Geography (Rouen); Geology of France; Association of French for the Advancement of Sciences; School of Anthropology Paris & Society Relief for the wounded soldiers.

Works by the same author:

* Journey into the Sub (1899). Ed. Callamel, Paris 1900

* trips to morocco . Routes and Profiles. Ed. Henri Barrère, Paris 1903

* trips to morocco . (1899-1901) . Ed. A. Colin, Paris 1903

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Isla de Alborán (Spanish: Isla de Albourán) is a Spanish island located in the Mediterranean Sea, located roughly in the middle of the distance between the African and European coasts, and it is a part of the province of Malaga. Its area is 0.0712 km2 and its maximum height is 15 m. The sea part that stretches between it and the Strait of Jabal Tariq is called Al-Burhan Sea.

Location of the Island

The island of Burhan, whose name is written to the island of Bran, according to the way it is pronounced in Spanish, known by them with the same name in the Mediterranean Sea, 56 km north of the head of the hip, located on the beach of the Bani Shekar tribe in the direction of Kart, is a rock island formed by a volcano, which is approximately a triangle of shape and its surrounding is estimated by 3 kilometres. Given its volcanic rock nature, the vegetation cover is almost non-existent as there are no trees but some grasses growing above its surface. One of the most important meeting points for fugitives between my Middle Bank.

The border dispute.

Morocco refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Spanish rule on the island of Bran, the two cities of Sabata and Melilla and the Jaafria Islands (Spanish: Chafarinas). Morocco is demanding Spain to enter into direct negotiations with it to restore Spain, which it considers one of the last colonial strongholds in Africa, but the region has not been classified as an occupied territories by the United Nations.

Landmarks.

The island currently has a lighthouse, a building owned by some members of the Spanish Army, a small harbor and a place for helicopters to land.

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Morocco Camping Guide 2024-2025 is out!

More information and orders directly from the publisher's website: https://www.extrem-sud.com/.../10-campings-du-maroc-et-de...

After two years of forced interruption due to the health crisis and the impossibility to visit Morocco during this time, the new edition of the Critical Guide to Campings of Morocco is out of the press celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Many new things to discover in this 2024-2025 delivery: more pages, many more photos and information, new establishments and, as usual, sheets, revised and mostly modified, of all the Moroccan camps worthy of the name, with a QR code that allows to be guided to the establishment or to contact him directly, via a smartphone or tablet.

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This is the first time I have traveled from Tizi-N-Test to Marrakesh since the earthquake, the road was built by the French Foreign Legion from around 1926, one of the first true roads in Morocco to save time by travelling over the High Atlas rather then driving around. It is an amazing feat of engineering.

The road is billed as one of the most dangerous roads in the world, and even more so now.

It has taken me a nights sleep to gather my thoughts.

To say it was a numbing experience, does not cover what we saw.

It is about 18 months on from the actual earthquake, and I cannot begin to understand the magnitude of the task the Morrocan people and rescue workers faced.

It’s hard to believe the road is open now!

People are living in makeshift villages and as Moroccans do getting on with life, with a shrug and smile life goes on.

The loss of building even what we could see will be in the 1000’s some ancient some new, few survived.

(Many will be in better accommodation in the temporary accommodation than before)

Morocco is a resilient country , but after the earthquake and the dust literally settles, years of reconstruction will need to take place.

So when your driving through the High Atlas Mountains stop get out of your glass bubble (vehicle) interact, spend money and engage.

The people of Morocco have massive hearts get to see them.