December 17, 2020, marked ten years since Mohammad Bouazizi immolated himself in a small town in Tunisia. His death on January 4, 2011, unleashed a chain of events that led to national protests and uprisings first in Tunisia, then in Libya…
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Largely overlooked amid a turbulent presidential transition and worsening pandemic has been a wholesale change in U.S. policy toward Western Sahara. While it likely appears trivial to most Americans, the shift highlights…
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US President Donald Trump’s surprise backing of Morocco’s claim to sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara upended years of international consensus, but will this break a deadlock or inflame a conflict? AFP looks at how a dispute often dubbed a “forgotten war” suddenly shot to world attention — and what it means for the region. What’s the issue?
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Israel, Normalization,
Germany was a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council from 1 January 2019 till 31 December 2020. This was Germany’s sixth term on the Council, assuming particular responsibility for peace and security around the world and striving to strengthen the international…
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Host Evan Gottesman speaks with Einat Levi, a researcher at the Israeli think tank Mitvim who specializes in Israel-Morocco relations, about the history of Israel’s ties with Rabat, the new normalization agreement…
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Israel, West Bank,
Washington D.C. – Morocco has been facing a fierce and systematic media attack since President Trump announced US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara on December 10. After Stephen Zunes, — a professor at the University of San Francisco known for his hostility towards Morocco, desperate defense of the Polisario Front, and use of misinformation to achieve his agenda…
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, US Media, USA,
Ten years ago, anti-government protests began in Tunisia, leading up to the toppling of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime in January 2011, the country’s transition to democracy, and the start of the Arab Spring that saw the ousting of autocratic…
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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Springs and 25 years since the beginning of the Barcelona Declaration that gave birth to the Union for the Mediterranean. The world is very different now. Those promises for the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood were not kept. Countries from Libya to Egypt or Syria cause headaches for European diplomats rather than inspiring hope. Turkey showed it has a special relation with Russia and its own plans for the Mediterranean.
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On December 10, there was an important development for North Africa when Donald Trump tweeted: “Another historic breakthrough today! Our two great friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!”. He further announced that the US now recognizes Morocco’s claim over Western Sahara. This was an unprecedented move. Last week American ambassador to the Moroccan capital of Rabat, David Fischer, announced that the US adopted a new official map of Morocco that now includes Western Sahara. In what would not be a coincidence, the US government also started talks two weeks ago to sell over $1 billion in arms to Morocco, including MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones.
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On October 20, 2020, an escalation of tension began between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front. On the one hand, the Moroccan Army is involved in this conflict, and since Spain left the area, it has taken advantage of it to settle and exploit the natural resources that the area possesses, among them the largest phosphate mines in the world, an enormous fishing bank, reserves of oil, gas, iron, copper and uranium, etc. On the other side is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguía el Hamra and Río de Oro, known as the Polisario Front, which heads the government of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which, despite lacking international recognition, has been trying to carve out a niche for itself in international geopolitics since 19761.
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Tags : Morocco, Western Sahara,