Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than
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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...
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...
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.
As Saharan independence threatens, Rabat digs up its box of tricks
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...
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.
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...
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...
Hopes that the people of Western Sahara might one day decide their own future (AC Vol 42 No 10) have been dealt a possibly fatal blow by Rabat's decision to grant oil exploration rights to the waters off the coast of the disputed territory.
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