n the midst of the historic death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention his own ongoing efforts to overturn the results of last month’s election, it was a little surprising to see President Trump tweeting out a very dramatic…
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Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario,
Disputed and divided Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions have simmered since the 1970s. An Algerian-backed independence movement — which holds a fifth of the territory …
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After Morocco’s historic “yes” vote on cannabis at the UN last Thursday, the path towards legal cannabis has widened. However, obstacles still exist. Morocco supported declassifying cannabis from Schedule 4, which contains the most dangerous drugs deemed to have…
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Tags : Morocco, Drugs, cannabis,
MOROCCO. The Council of the Moroccan Government decided, on Thursday 8 October 2020 in Rabat, to extend until 10 November 2020 the state of health emergency proclaimed since mid-March 2020. According to the CSSE of the Johns Hopkins University, on the morning of …
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Tags : Morocco, coronavirus, covid 19,
They deploy the only land borders between Morocco and Spain, and even between Africa and Europe*. Those which Moroccans and Sub-Saharans have been trying to cross en masse since 1995 and the start of illegal immigration in this region. The door to the European Union…
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Tags : Morocco, Ceuta, Melilla, Spain,
Traveling along the otherworldly, deserted coastline of Western Sahara, it is hard to imagine the region is one of political significance, much less one of entrenched conflict. Covering some 266,000 square kilometers (103,000 square miles), Western Sahara is larger than the UK, yet with a population of under 600,000, the territory is one of the most uninhabited corners of the globe.
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It’s not often that Western Sahara makes international headlines, but in mid-November it did: Nov. 14 marked the tragic—if unsurprising—breakup of a tenuous, 29-year cease-fire in Western Sahara between the occupying Moroccan government and pro-independence fighters. The outbreak of violence is concerning not only because it flew in the face of nearly three decades of relative stasis, but also because Western governments’ reflexive response to the resurgent conflict may be to upend—and thereby hamper and delegitimize for perpetuity—more than 75 years of established international legal principles.
Read more from the source : Foreign Policy
Tags : Morocco, East Timor, Western Sahara,
Mediterranean states France and Morocco have inked a deal on child migrant returns. The text of the agreement on the care of unaccompanied underage migrant children notably calls for “concrete tools” to facilitate the return of minors from France to Morocco. France and Morocco, on Monday, signed an agreement on the repatriation of underage Moroccan migrants. According to French Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, the agreement calls for the establishment of “concrete tools” for taking care of unaccompanied minors from Morocco.
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Tags : Morocco, Migration, France, childs,
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that’s relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has not yet…
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RABAT – South African President and current President of the African Union Cyril Ramaphosa disavowed the Algeria-backed Polisario Front on Sunday and reaffirmed Decision 693 of the African Summit held in July 2018 in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Ramaphosa, who was speaking at the end of the 14th African Union Extraordinary Session of the Assembly on Silencing the Guns, underlined that the amendments to Decision 693 proposed at this summit confirm the provisions of the said decision.
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