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news from Western Sahara
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Found 16 articles.
- Vol 50 No 1
- 09/01/2009
Stalemate in the Western Sahara
Algeria and Morocco remain at odds over independence for the disputed Western Sahara – and Polisario is frustrated
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
The ex-revolutionary front
Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than might at first appear
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11/01/2008
Unjust deserts in the Western Sahara
Despite the intervention by the United States, which has seen two rounds of direct talks between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front liberation movement, tensions are again rising over a lack of progress towards definitive decolonisation, prov...
- Vol 45 No 13
- 25/06/2004
Iraq first
After seven frustrating years, former United States Secretary of State James Baker III has resigned as the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to Western Sahara. He is 74 and busy enough as George W. Bush's envoy for restructuring Iraq's huge...
- Vol 45 No 5
- 05/03/2004
Whose land?
The row over who owns the Western Sahara's mineral rights is reopening. British-based Wessex Exploration has applied to Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines to explore for oil and gas onshore.
- Vol 44 No 18
- 12/09/2003
Saharan box of tricks
As Saharan independence threatens, Rabat digs up its box of tricks
- Vol 44 No 18
- 12/09/2003
Rabat's regional security web
As it tries to regain some of the initiative in the struggle for Western Sahara, Morocco will seek to pull in debts from several West African and other states with which it has long enjoyed strong commercial and security links. While King Mohammed VI does...
- Vol 44 No 16
- 08/08/2003
A line in the sand
Morocco has been outmanoeuvred in the United Nations. Algeria persuaded the Polisario Front it should accept the plan drawn up by UN Special Envoy James Baker III for a solution to the protracted Western Sahara dispute.
- Vol 43 No 8
- 19/04/2002
UN manoeuvres
Morocco, the Polisario Front and their allies are lobbying hard before the United Nations Security Council's 30 April vote on the future of its Western Sahara mission (AC Vol 43 No 6). While most Moroccan eyes have turned towards Palestine with King Moham...
- Vol 43 No 4
- 22/02/2002
Uncharted waters
The United Nations has issued an ambiguous legal opinion about exploration licences in the ocean off Western Sahara, and Morocco is objecting to exploration by Spain's Repsol YPF off the Canary Islands. Spanish-Moroccan relations are further soured by the...
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