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Where was Abd el-Krim exiled after the Rif War?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

Following his surrender to the French on May 27, 1926, at the conclusion of the Rif War, Abd el-Krim and his family were exiled to Réunion, an isolated French outpost located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar.12

He remained in exile on the island for approximately 20 to 21 years. In 1947, the French government granted his petition to relocate to France for health and educational reasons. However, while in transit, his party was intercepted by Moroccan nationalists in Port Said, Egypt, and taken to Cairo, where they were granted asylum by King Farouk.12