Morocco and Spain connect, however temporarily, with a wireless link: In a project that involved many people and organizations and had a political as well as technical goal, a 32-kilometer link between the continents was established from Tarifa, Spain, to Tangiers, Morocco (often spelled Tangier, too). The link has symbolic significance spanning countries, the sea, and hundreds of years.
Spain and Northern Africa have a lengthy shared history dating back 1,000 years and more, through Moorish Spain, the expulsion of Jews (which led to the Sephardic Diaspora), and more recent immigration and cultural conflicts. The empire of the Moors led to a cultural revolution unmatched again until the Renaissance in which algebra was invented, poetry was written, and members of a number of monotheistic religions lived in relative harmony. [link via Slashdot]