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Western Sahara

Population: 0.27 million
GNI: $n/a million
Debt: $n/a million
Overview: The Polisario Front threatens a resumption of armed hostilities should US-mediated negotiations with Morocco fail to produce agreement on a referendum on the future of Western Sahara.

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  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

Unending endgame

Imagination and innovation are needed if a new war is to be prevented

  • Vol 41 No 10
  • 12/05/2000

Fishy business

As if the Western Sahara did not have enough tangles, an old debate about fishing rights has reemerged to weave fresh knots. Most of the fish that swarm off the 1,835 kilometres of the territory's coastline are caught by boats from Spain, Europe's biggest...

  • Vol 41 No 6
  • 17/03/2000

Baker's big idea

A new drive for peace in Western Sahara is signalled by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan's choice of a new Special Envoy. Former United States Secretary of State James Baker III is a heavy hitter

  • Vol 40 No 22
  • 05/11/1999

Desert king

Is the 'people's King' preparing an initiative that would win him huge support at home by underlining the 'Moroccaness' of Western Sahara but could seriously compromise the United Nations-led referendum process?

  • Vol 40 No 18
  • 10/09/1999

Self-determination

King Mohammed VI's government was 'astonished' by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's claim that Rabat was training Islamists who on 15 August massacred 29 people in Algeria's border area of Beni Ounif, Bechar. This quarrel also threatens July's United N...

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