Armed clashes between Morocco and the Polisario Front reflect the movement’s frustration with a three-decade status quo that has frozen its dreams of independence in the Western Sahara, analysts say…
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario,
After the Mauritanian Government turned away from the Makhzen in the Guerguerat case, the Moroccan monarch, Mohamed VI, asked the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Al-Ghazwani, to schedule a visit for him to…
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In an official statement, the Moroccan government informed that “King Mohammed VI made a phone call on Friday to his brother Mohamed Ould Cheikh al-Ghazouani, the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”. During this call, the two…
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Tags : Mauritania, Morocco, cooperation,
The Palaeozoic record of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, chimaeras, extinct relatives) and thus our knowledge of their anatomy and functional morphology is poor because of their predominantly cartilaginous skeletons. Here, we report a previously undescribed symmoriiform…
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Salmi Gailano was born in 1991, the year that Morocco agreed to a ceasefire with the rebels of the Polisario Front after almost two decades of warfare in Western Sahara : Despite the peace, Gailani has grown up in exile. His childhood was spent in refugee camps of the Polisario-held territory near the Algerian border and in Spain.
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario Front,
Known to some as Africa’s last colony, nearly 80 per cent of Western Sahara was annexed by Morocco Back in 1675. A smaller area is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Reoublic, a liberation movement of Saharan people. At the weeken, their army broke a 29-year-old ceasefire and declared war on Morocco.
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The Polisario Front said Sunday (15 November) it was mobilising “thousands of volunteers” to join its fighters, on the third day of a crisis in the disputed Western Sahara that pits the Sahrawis against Morocco.
Rabat launched a military operation on Friday to reopen a key highway on the border between the territory and Mauritania that it said was blocked by the Polisario Front, which seeks independence for Western Sahara.
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The Polisario Front, the organisation seeking independence for the disputed territory of Western Sahara, said this weekend it had launched attacks on Moroccan forces after ending a 30-year ceasefire. The rebel group, which is backed by neighbouring Algeria, said on Saturday that “attacks of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army units continue against various hiding places of the Moroccan enemy along its positions in the occupied parts of the Sahrawi territory, causing loss of lives and equipments and disrupting its military plans”.
Read more from the source : Financial Times
Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Frente Polisario,
(CNN)The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali…
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The pro-independence Polisario Front on Friday said a 30-year-old cease-fire in disputed Western Sahara ended after Morocco launched an operation in a border area. “War has started, the Moroccan side has liquidated the cease-fire,” senior Polisario official Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told the AFP news agency.
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