- Vol 52 No 7
- 1st April 2011
Just as United States-based Kosmos Energy is about to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange to finance operations in Ghana’s Jubilee field, the Polisario Front is demanding Kosmos halt drilling in the giant Boujdour block ...
- Vol 50 No 1
- 9th January 2009
Algeria and Morocco remain at odds over independence for the disputed Western Sahara – and Polisario is frustrated
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28th March 2008
Two dissimilar but durable leaders have more in common than
might at first appear
- Vol 49 No 1
- 11th January 2008
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
- 25th June 2004
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
- 5th March 2004
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
- 12th September 2003
As Saharan independence threatens, Rabat digs up its box of tricks
- Vol 44 No 18
- 12th September 2003
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
- 8th August 2003
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
- 19th April 2002
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...