Morocco leverages Trump highway and Ceuta crisis in Sahara Western Sahara talks
Rabat is deploying a dual-track strategy to secure decisive backing from Washington on the Western Sahara issue—one symbolic, one strategic. While the newly renamed Tiznit-Dakhla highway pays homage to Donald Trump, the real pressure point lies 1,500 kilometers north, where a sudden surge of migration has thrown Ceuta into turmoil.
Summer 2026 has become a defining moment in Moroccan diplomacy, with Rabat pulling every diplomatic lever to advance its claim over Western Sahara—a territory it has administered since Spain’s 1975 withdrawal.
