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  • Trump's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara will increase tensions in Africa

    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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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Donald Trump,

  • The US-Morocco quid pro quo

    The recent exchange of quid pro quos between the U.S. and Morocco has been handled well by both sides, despite the ritual carping to be expected from opponents of the quid and the quo. It was the proponent of the deal in general who once announced, “Quid pro quo? That’s just what negotiation is about.” The U.S. got another endorsement of the “Abraham Accords,” made by a state that already has quiet relations with Israel, but in this case carefully phrased as a future intention, to dampen domestic opposition.

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    Tags : Morocco, Western Sahara, Donald Trump,

  • The Western Sahara Conflict is Upended By a Trump Tweet

    On December 10th, Donald Trump upended over 30 years of US diplomacy with a tweet in which he declared American support for Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over Western Sahara. Since the 1970s, Morocco and a local group called the Polisario Front have fought for control of Western Sahara. In the early 1990s the United States brokered a ceasefire agreement which called for the people of Western Sahara to vote in a referendum to determine their status as an independent country. A UN Peacekeeping mission was deployed to region to help maintain the ceasefire and prepare for the vote.

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario, Donald Trump,

  • What’s Next for the Western Sahara Conflict?

    On Dec. 10, Morocco scored a long-dreamed-of foreign policy victory. After decades of international impasse and intense lobbying, the United States recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory, which Morocco has occupied since 1975. The U.S. recognition, in exchange for Morocco normalizing relations with Israel, opens a new chapter in an issue that has long been static. And it has implications not only for Morocco and the Polisario Front—which represents the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), the government in exile that aims to govern Western Sahara—but also for those indirectly involved: Algeria, the United States and the European Union.

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Donald Trump, Israel,

  • Trump’s Morocco-Israel Transaction

    This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood unpack the normalisation of relations between Israel and Morocco with Century Foundation Fellow Dahlia Scheindlin and talk with Crisis Group’s North Africa Project Director Riccardo Fabiani about how U.S. recognition…

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    Tags : Morocco, Donald Trump, Normalization, Israel,

  • The Israel-Morocco peace deal is roiling Western Sahara

    Israel’s formal ties with the Arab world now extend from the United Arab Emirates (uae) in the east to Morocco in the west. On December 10th President Donald Trump announced the latest breakthrough in his diplomatic push on behalf of the Jewish state. Morocco, the Arab world’s oldest monarchy, will become the fourth Arab state in as many months to establish diplomatic relations with Israel (following the uae, Bahrain and Sudan).

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    Tags : Morocco, Israel, Western Sahara, Donald Trump,

  • Morocco''s police disperse protest against ties with Israel

    Rabat, Dec 15 (AP) Moroccan authorities dispersed a group of activists who tried to hold a protest outside the parliament building in the capital to denounce the country”s recent decision to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Dozens of police officers in riot gear were mobilsed to push protesters away from parliament in Rabat. Demonstrators wanted to show solidarity with Palestinians and reject the normalisation of ties between Rabat and Tel Aviv.

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    Tags : Maroc #Marruecos #Morocco #Israel #USA

  • Russian position on Trump Morocco deal over Western Sahara

    MOSCOW, December 12. /TASS/. Washington’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara could hamper UN efforts aimed at resolving the conflict and trigger a new spiral of violence in the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

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    #SaharaOccidental #Polisario #WesternSahara #Maroc #Marruecos #Morocco #Israel #USA

  • Trump ignores global efforts on Western Sahara

    Washington, Dec 14 (Prensa Latina) President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara causes unease and criticism in the United States and globally. The action sparked a strong rebuke from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and ally of the president, who described the move to acknowledge Rabat’s claims on Western Sahara as ‘shocking and deeply disappointing.

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Donald Trump,

  • SAHARAWI: EU FOR UN-LED TALKS

    Brussels.- “Western Sahara future should be solved in political negotiations. We call for quick resumption of negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) to find lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to the issue”, the spokesperson of the European External Actions Service said, while reacting upon recent events around the status of Western Sakhara.

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    #USA #Polisario #WesternSahara #Morocco #DonaldTrump #Israël