Morocco

The Prime Minister provides his daily briefing: Northwest Territories limits non-essential travel while work continues to bring Canadians home from Peru, Spain, Morocco and elsewhere

Royal watchers are puzzled by the trip, but at least it’s not the disaster that was Elizabeth’s 1980 visit

The long-running dispute between Morocco and the Polisario Front over sovereignty of Western Sahara is usually ignored by the rest of the world. The territory is mostly desert flatlands and has a population of maybe half a million people. The conflict has little chance of spreading. The Polisario Front, for its part, appears to be almost a relic of the Cold War, heralding socialism and national liberation rather than Islam.

In Morocco, I worked for a press that had new freedoms — and old fears