• The countries listed are those described in the United Nations geoscheme for Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria won its independence from France in 1962. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) controls about 1⁄4 of the territory of Western Sahara and is recognized by about 40 countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • The area 446550km2 excludes all disputed territories, while 710850km2 includes the Moroccan-claimed and partially-controlled parts of Western Sahara (claimed as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic by the Polisario Front ). (explained.today)
  • Chief of state: Chairman of the Presidential Council and Prime Minister: Fayez al-Sarraj (since December 2015) Vice President of the Presidential Council and Deputy Prime Minister: Ahmed Maiteeq (since March 30, 2016) The Alaouite dynasty began its rule in 1631 but in 1912 Morocco was divided between French and Spanish protectorates. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 'Alawi dynasty , which rules the country to this day, seized power in 1631, and over the next two centuries expanded diplomatic and commercial relations with the Western world . (explained.today)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco regained its independence in 1956. (wikipedia.org)
  • After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the 'liberation' of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. (wsrw.org)
  • If the answer to the first question was in the negative, it also requested the International Court of Justice to rule on the issue of the legal ties between Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco and the Mauritanian entity. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . (explained.today)
  • Chief of state: King: Mohammed VI (since July 30, 1999) Head of government: President of the Government: Saadeddine Othmani (since March 17, 2017) When Spain gave up Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco, Mauritania, and Polisario Front fought for control of the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chief of state and head of government: vacant Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (since August 21, 2019) Prime Minister: Abdalla Hamdok (since August 21, 2019) Tunisia threw off its French yoke on March 20, 1956, and the Republic of Tunisia was declared the following year. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified. (explained.today)
  • Morocco is a member of the Arab League, the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), and the AU. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is located in eastern Morocco on the Mediterranean coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east , and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south . (explained.today)
  • In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. (factretriever.com)
  • 7 By Resolution 3292 (XXIX) on the Question of the Spanish Sahara, adopted on 13 December 1974, the UN General Assembly decided to request the International Court of Justice for an Advisory Opinion on whether Western Sahara (Rio de Oro and Sakiet El Hamra) was, at the time of its colonisation by the Kingdom of Spain, a territory belonging to no one (terra nullius). (wsrw.org)
  • [16] Morocco is a unitary semi- constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. (explained.today)
  • Sultan Mohammed V, the current monarch's grandfather, organized Morocco as a constitutional monarchy and assumed the title of King in 1957. (factretriever.com)
  • in 1912, France and Spain divided the country into respective protectorates, reserving an international zone in Tangier. (explained.today)
  • An Arabic name for Morocco, al-Magrib al-Aqsa , means "the extreme west" and attests to Morocco's place as the westernmost country in the Arab world. (factretriever.com)
  • Chief of state and head of government: President: Abdelmadjid Tebboune (since December 12, 2019) Modern Egypt gained nominal independence from the British Empire as a monarchy in 1922. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since independence, Morocco has remained relatively stable. (explained.today)
  • 1 Western Sahara is a territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the north-east, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast faces the Atlantic. (wsrw.org)
  • One of the recent incidents that has strained bilateral ties is the alleged involvement of Indian government agents in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia1. (blogbyzaka.com)
  • Mayor-President of Melilla: Eduardo de Castro (since June 15, 2019) Morocco also claims the Spanish territories of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera and the Plazas de soberanía along its northern coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco also claims Ceuta and Melilla , making up about 22.8km2 more claimed territory. (explained.today)
  • Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta , Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera , and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. (explained.today)
  • Morocco agreed to autonomy in 2007 but no referendum. (wikipedia.org)
  • 6 On 20 August 1974, the Kingdom of Spain informed the UN that it proposed to organise a referendum in Western Sahara under UN auspices. (wsrw.org)
  • Furthermore, the UN General Assembly called upon the Kingdom of Spain, which it treated as the administering power, to postpone the referendum that it was planning to organise in Western Sahara until the General Assembly had decided on the policy to be pursued in order to accelerate the decolonisation process in the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • Head of state: Monarchy of Spain: King Felipe VI (since June 19, 2014) Head of government: President of the Government of Spain: Pedro Sánchez (since June 2, 2018) Canary Islands The island of Fuerteventura is located only 50 nautical miles (93 km) west the coast of Western Sahara in the Atlantic Ocean, leading to a conflict over offshore mineral rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • 3 In 1963, following the transmission of information by the Kingdom of Spain pursuant to Article 73(e) of the Charter of the United Nations, the UN added Western Sahara to its list of non-self-governing territories. (wsrw.org)
  • The Marinid and Saadi dynasties otherwise resisted foreign domination, and Morocco was the only North African nation to escape Ottoman dominion. (explained.today)
  • The SADR claims El Aaiún as its capital, but as that is controlled by Morocco, Tifariti in the Liberated Territories east of the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall is the de facto capital. (wikipedia.org)
  • Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (center) with fellow government representatives of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere . (wikipedia.org)
  • In contemporary Morocco and all of North Africa , it is generally used to refer to the fortified strong point in a city. (factretriever.com)
  • Bolton, a Fox News contributor, noted that a strike launched from Azerbaijan would be much easier for the Israelis than a strike launched from their own country -- jets could stay over their targets longer and worry less about refueling. (blogspot.com)
  • Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration, was responding to an article in Foreign Policy magazine that quoted government sources claiming Israel had been granted access to airfields in Azerbaijan -- along Iran's northern border. (blogspot.com)
  • Firas Press , one of my best sources for news, changed their format, apparently without testing it. (blogspot.com)
  • The fighters are part of the Brigades controlled by Fatah, the party which also controls the caretaker government in the West Bank. (blogspot.com)
  • Bharti Airtel Limited (commonly shortened to Airtel and stylised airtel) is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New Delhi, India. (unionpedia.org)
  • Morocco is the largest processor and exporter of sardines in the world. (factretriever.com)
  • Chief of state: President of Egypt: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (since June 8, 2014) Head of government: Prime Minister of Egypt: Moustafa Madbouly (since June, 2018) The Kingdom of Libya lasted from 1951 to September 1, 1969, when Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris and established the "Libyan Arab Republic," becoming the "Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" in 1977 and the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" in 1986. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco is one of the world's largest producers of illicit hashish. (factretriever.com)
  • [15] Centuries of Arab migration to the Maghreb since the 7th century shifted the demographic scope of Morocco. (explained.today)