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Morocco's Islamist-led government offers no change in policy on Western Sahara, and Spain is sacrificing Polisario to warmer relations with Rabat. Polisario may score a legal success in the battle over offshore oil rights.

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  • Vol 43 No 4
  •  22nd February 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...

  • Vol 42 No 21
  •  26th October 2001

Murky depths

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.

  • Vol 42 No 10
  •  18th May 2001

Unending endgame

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

  • Vol 41 No 10
  •  12th May 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
  •  17th March 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
  •  5th November 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
  •  10th September 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 Natio...

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