France, Aug. 7 -- RFI spoke to Riccardo Fabiani, North Africa project director at the International Crisis Group (ICG), about US moves to increase its influence in the region by supporting Morocco.

The US has supported Morocco during the Ceuta crisis, while Spain has faced a divided EU in the wake of the crisis and pressure to give up its two enclaves in North Africa, after the influx of 50,000 migrants over 24 hours into Ceuta last week.

Also last week, King Mohammed VI of Morocco announced that the new expressway connecting Tiznit, in the south of the country, and Dakhla, in Western Sahara, will be named the Donald J. Trump Highway.

"This is part of Morocco's strategy to woo the Trump administration and, above all, to ensure that the...