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Seems like further news has died about the Oujda border?
In any case - IF - the border opens, will the Algerian visa be issued in Morocco?
Getting the Algerian visa in Tunisia (as far as i heard) was pretty difficult. I applied for the Algerian visa in The Hague, got one after 2 weeks but unfortunately wasn't able to go.
Might want to take a look at this border coming winter.
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18 Nov 2011
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I have no special inside info but I would not make plans on this border being open now, even if it all seemed so certain at the time.
I even wonder if it was not some sort of media distraction or appeasing gesture to do with the many revolts across the Maghreb at the time.
Let's hope it actually happens one day - it is Alg that is digging in.
btw, I hear the Almeria-Oran ferry has been suspended this winter but Acconia's Almeria-Ghazaouet (very close to Oran) is still running at least once a week in winter.
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Seems like further news has died about the Oujda border?
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Not quite, this came today Algérie-Maroc : Du nouveau dans les relations «dans un avenir très proche» - 7 jours - El Watan
"Rabat wants a "full normalization" of relations with Algiers, said yesterday the AFP Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taeib Fassi Fihri, who considers it "abnormal not to have a normalized relationship" with the neighboring country."
I think the algies are stalling. Like a comment says, this is politics: "Je t'aime moi non plus".
But change can come quickly in the arab world, as we have seen this year...
An opening of the border and the Western Sahara situation resolved would be tantamount to a minor revolution.
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Can I assume from the lack of recent thread additions that the border is still a no-go?
Would there be a problem with someone going through Morocco (and then Western Sahara), into Mauritania (and possibly Mali) and then going into Algeria? I'm not sure whether the Algerians would object to you having been in Morocco AT ALL, or whether it was just a no-no to go straight from one to the other?
It could be quite a nice diversion East . . . .
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Hi,
I don't have any info on the Moroc - Alg border, but confidently assume nothings significantly changed recently.......hope i'm wrong of course.
Def no problem with a Moroc stamp in your passport when going to Alg, but you'll have to go further south than Mauri or Mali, their borders have been either closed or the route far too risky for quite a while.
Read more here and/or check out Chris' website for all the info before making any plans
Sahara Overland ~ Trans Sahara Routes
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Hmmm, little by little!
Got my fingers crossed it's the first step, but I guess it's still likely to be a pretty long road?
Cheers Priffe
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