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  • Saudi-Turkish Clash Reinforces Tensions in the Maghreb

    Morocco notched a diplomatic win this week as the United Arab Emirates opened a consulate in the Western Sahara, where Rabat has long sought international recognition of its claim over the disputed territory. It also signaled a troubling regional shift. The hostility between Turkey and the Saudi-aligned Arab states risks embroiling the Maghreb region, much as it already complicates conflicts and politics from Libya to the Red Sea region. In North Africa, as across the greater Middle East, a widening of the Turkish-Saudi confrontation is heightening the risks of destabilization and threats to U.S. regional and counterterrorism interests.

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    Tags : Maghreb, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Western Sahara,

  • Mauritanian markets face fresh produce shortages due to banditry

    The Polisario Frontis is a rebel national liberation movement, aiming to end Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara. Currently, Polisario militias continue to block the free flow of commercial traffic on the Guerguarat border crossing between Morocco…

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    Tags : Mauritania,Western Sahara, Guerguerat,

  • UAE to become first Arab state to open consulate in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara

    The United Arab Emirates is set to become the first Arab state to open a consulate in the disputed Morocco-controlled Western Sahara region, Rabat said on Tuesday. The consulate will be opened in Laayoune, the largest city in the Western Sahara, which has been under the control of Morocco since the end of Spanish colonial rule in 1974. The Algerian-backed Polisario Front has been unsuccessfully pressing for the region’s independence, while United Nations efforts to broker a settlement between Rabat and Polisario have repeatedly failed.

    Read more from the source : Middle East Eye

     

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Morocco, EAU, Western Sahara, consulate,

  • Moroccan Western Sahara: A Dagger in Morocco’s Back

    The Western Sahara territorial conflict is an artificial issue. It has been such since its inception in the 1970s during the Cold War era and here is why: The vast territory called Western Sahara had been under Spanish occupation…

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario, 

  • Morocco: Is Western Sahara A No-go For Trademark Protection?

    Western Sahara is an Atlantic-coastal desert area of 266,000km2, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. A former Spanish colony, it has been on the the United Nations (UN) list of non-self-governing…

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario,

  • Is Western Sahara a no-go for trademark protection?

    Western Sahara is an Atlantic-coastal desert area of 266,000km2, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. A former Spanish colony, it has been on the the United Nations (UN) list of non-self-governing territories since 1965 along with 17 other territories. ‘Non-self-governing territories’ are defined as “territories whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government” according to Chapter XI of the UN Charter.

    Read more the source : Inventa International

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, trademark,

  • US poised to flout int’l law as part of potential Morocco-Israel normalization deal

    Reports that Morocco would be willing to follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel in exchange for U.S. recognition of Moroccan control of Western Sahara are deeply concerning…

    Read more from the source : Responsible Statecraft

     

     

     

     

     

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

  • Western Sahara: a much-disputed territory

    Western Sahara, a region rich in resources, is a territory on the northwest coast of the African continent. It was a Spanish protectorate until 1975. Since then, Western Sahara, declared a non-autonomous territory by the United Nations…

    Read more from the source : Le Journal International

     

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Polisario Front, UN,

  • Western Sahara Forefront of Algerian-Moroccan conflict

    The conflicts of the Western Sahara region are one of the biggest obstacles in the Moroccan-Algerian bilateral relations, Morocco always blaming the neighbor for being the first supporter of the Polisario Liberation Front, that calls…

    Read more from the source : MENA Research Center

     

     

     

     

     

    Tags : Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Polisario Front,

  • Protect poupulation of Western Sahara from the Coronavirus

    If measures are not taken, the pandemic can hit Western Sahara strongly because of their living conditions, they live in tents with limited access to water, which means that the spread of the virus can be faster consequently the pandemic…

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    Tags : Western Sahara, Pandemic, Coronavirus,