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20175
  • Elections for the lower chamber of parliament were held in 2017 and did not result in significant changes in the composition of the government. (state.gov)
  • According to a report by NASDAQ , the Central Bank of Morocco, Bank Al-Maghrib, has positive economic projections for 2017, even as some indicators such as inflation and the balance of payments are slightly more negative. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • While this is good news for 2017, overall growth is expected to decline in 2018 as the price of phosphates remains low. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • The country's budget deficit will reach 3.7% of GDP in 2017 before a slight decrease to 3.4% in 2018. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • In February 2019, Fabrice Leggeri, the director of the European border agency Frontex announced that there was "no burning crisis with the irregular crossing at external borders", pointing to the drop in arrivals between 2017 and 2018. (alarmphone.org)
20192
  • Paragraph 32 of the report emphasized that Algeria has "continued to object the roundtable format, contending that in 2018-2019 its participation has been 'instrumentalised. (abidjanherald.com)
  • Notably, Resolution 2654 adopted by the UN Security Council last year stressed "the important contribution of the former Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General to Western Sahara in convening the roundtable process" and welcoming the momentum created by the first roundtable meetings in 2018 and 2019. (abidjanherald.com)
Algeria20
  • Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan and Algeria have in recent weeks accused Iran of subversive activity and propagating Shiism while Morocco last month announced that it was breaking off diplomatic relations with the Islamic republic. (therealnews.com)
  • In the most recent incident, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, a pan-Arab, Saudi-owned newspaper , quoted, former Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments official Idah Falahi as demanding the withdrawal of Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi because of his "extensive contacts with civil society groups, through Facebook and social media" and alleged attempts to meddle in the dispute between Morocco and Algeria over the Western Sahara. (therealnews.com)
  • It…became apparent that Mousavi was in fact an Iranian intelligence agent , whose remit was to interfere in the dispute between Algeria and Morocco over the Western Sahara conflict," said Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat columnist Tony Duheaume. (therealnews.com)
  • Algerian minister of endowment and religious affairs Muhammad Issa last year compared Iran to the Islamic State in an interview with a Saudi newspaper amid a growing anti-Iranian sentiment in Algeria. (therealnews.com)
  • An international book fair in Algeria banned Iranian books because they "incite sectarianism and violence" after Bou Abdullah Ghulamallah, the head of Algeria's High Islamic Council, , charged that "thousands of imported books carry dangerous thoughts that are aimed at convincing the Algerian people that their Islamic religion is wrong. (therealnews.com)
  • Although this approach has effectively se-rved Algerian interests, the longer this conflict rages on, Algeria will find neutrality harder to maintain. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Some Western pundits and lawmakers in Washington accuse Algeria of backing Russia in this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Although the Russians do not want to see Algeria uphold its energy agreements with European powers (let alone help them amid the ongoing global energy crisis), Algiers is choosing to play a role that is useful to Western powers amid this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • By the same token, Algeria has not bowed to Western pressure to end its dealings with Russia, nor taken official stances against Moscow over Ukraine. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Algiers views growing Western support for Morocco on this front as problematic and reason to safeguard strong relations with Russia despite Moscow not necessarily being too supportive of Algeria on this file. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Infrastructure Minister Bojan Kumer went to Algeria earlier this month to secure a deal between Sonatrach (Algeria's national state-owned oil company) and Geoplin (Slovenia's largest distributor of natural gas) whereby Algeria will cover one third of the Central European country's gas needs for the upcoming three years beginning on January 1, 2023. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • North Africa's Manufacturing Potential: Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria - Why Aren't European Companies Seizing the Opportunity? (abidjanherald.com)
  • Russia has long adopted an approach appeasing Algeria in the Western Sahara dispute. (abidjanherald.com)
  • Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia established the Arab Maghreb Union in 1989 to promote cooperation and economic integration. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • The union included Western Sahara implicitly under Morocco's membership, and ended Morocco's long cold war with Algeria over this territory. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • They were promptly removed from power and even repressed after independence, even if some of their leaders were later co-opted by the regimes in place, particularly in Morocco and Algeria. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest . (alamoana.net)
  • Algeria is sandwiched between Tunisia and Morocco on the north coast of Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. (istizada.com)
  • 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)
  • Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Mauritania, France, Malta, Libya, Tunis, Portugal and Deputy Ministers from Italy, Spain and Morocco took part in the Conference strengthening the cooperation in Western Mediterranean. (emwis.org)
North Africa4
  • The newspaper quoted Algerian member of parliament Abdurrahman Saidi as charging that Iran was attempting to create a Shiite movement in North Africa. (therealnews.com)
  • In a bitter response, Morocco lifted border controls into Ceuta, one of Spain's small enclaves in North Africa, allowing some 10,000 migrants to cross the border and effectively creating a humanitarian crisis. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Lebovich is currently a doctoral candidate in African History at Columbia University in New York, where he studies religion, politics, and society in North Africa, the Sahara, and the Sahel. (ecfr.eu)
  • Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . (explained.today)
Morocco's5
  • However, to this day, no state or international organization recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco's control and exploitation of Western Sahara also hurts the Sahrawis' labor rights and their economic development. (wsrw.org)
  • While no other country than the United States has ever recognized Morocco's unilateral annexation of Western Sahara , [2] [3] a number of countries have expressed their support for a future recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory as an autonomous part of the Kingdom . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • The claims come amid its unwavering support for the separatist Polisario Front, which seeks to undermine Morocco's territorial integrity by claiming independence in Western Sahara. (abidjanherald.com)
  • However, he stressed that rejoining of the body did not mean an change in Morocco's stance on Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Dinar1
  • The Algerian national identity card is an electronic biometric ID card, compulsory for all Algerian nationals and costs 2500 Algerian Dinar . (wikipedia.org)
Moroccan15
  • In a letter made public on March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez endorsed a Moroccan plan of autonomy for Western Sahara, a clear break with Madrid's long-established policy that the disputed territory's status should be decided by a referendum. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The United States and Canada, among others, have been very clear that they do not recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Robert Zoellick, then the United States Trade Representative, stated in 2004 in reference to the Free Trade Agreement between the USA and Morocco that "The United States … do not recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara" and added that "the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) covers trade and investment in the territory of Morocco as recognized internationally, and does not include Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Money from phosphate extraction and trade goes directly to the Moroccan state-owned company located in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Algiers believes it must continue buying Russian arms while feeling increasingly threatened by the situation in Western Sahara and Moroccan-Israeli normalization. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The UN recognizes neither Moroccan [5] nor SADR sovereignty over Western Sahara. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Moroccan settlers currently make up more than two thirds of the 500,000 inhabitants of Western Sahara . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • According to the Moroccan government, in 1958 the Moroccan Army of Liberation fought Spanish colonizers and almost liberated what was then Spanish Sahara. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Moroccan intelligence has exposed an Iranian-backed militia forming against Israel in the Sahara, with its leaders discussing a fresh wave of appalling attacks on the telephone. (express.co.uk)
  • Moroccan and Western intelligence suggests Iran is the common thread between this network of militias which it supports with arms, money and training to weaponise against the West in general and the US and Israel in particular. (express.co.uk)
  • Western Sahara is home to the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the territory. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • In 1991, Moroccan forces and Sahrawi rebels agreed on a UN-brokered truce and a referendum to settle the status of Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • 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)
  • The region constituting Morocco has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era over 300,000 years ago, and the first Moroccan state was established by Idris I in 788. (explained.today)
  • Initiated by the horse show association, the event includes notably the international model and gait show of Arab thoroughbreds, the Moroccan cup of Arab horses' breeders, the 2nd international barb horse championship and the Morocco Royal Tour final. (moroccanembassy.sa)
Africa6
  • Chinese companies have previously been active in infrastructure projects such as the suspension bridge linking Rabat and Sale, among the largest of its kind in Africa. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • The principal partners are the Chinese aviation group Haite , BMCE's Bank of Africa, and the government of Morocco represented by the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima regional authorities. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • According to its website , the Forum provides a multinational platform for CEOs of African and international companies, financial specialists, investors, bankers, thought-leaders, and public sector leaders to exchange information and develop projects in Africa and internationally, and develop strategies to address the economic and industrial challenges facing the continent. (moroccoonthemove.com)
  • Also commercial vessels, as the Alarm Phone has repeatedly documented, are part of this industry in which human rights abuses and the violation of the laws of the sea are systematically orchestrated and carried out by European governments, EU institutions, allies in Northern Africa and elsewhere, as well as commercial actors. (alarmphone.org)
  • By land area, Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and the 28th-largest in the world, and 90% of its territory is situated in the Sahara . (alamoana.net)
  • historical Mauretania was considerably further north than modern Mauritania, as it was spread out along the entire western half of the Mediterranean coast of Africa. (alamoana.net)
Algiers1
  • Algiers has an opportunity here, and to some degree pursued it, to really kind of explore and signal to Europe and Western capitals what neutrality looks like," Lawrence told Responsible Statecraft. (thefrontierpost.com)
Conflict1
  • The phosphate trade in Western Sahara therefore increases the risk of further armed conflict, destabilization and suffering in the region. (wsrw.org)
19755
  • Most of Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco since 1975. (wsrw.org)
  • Approximately 165,000 Sahrawis are languishing in refugee camps in the inhospitable Algerian desert since 1975. (wsrw.org)
  • The International Court of Justice in its 1975 Western Sahara Advisory Opinion established that Morocco has no legal claim to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Since the Madrid Accords of 1975, a part of Western Sahara has been administered by Morocco as the Southern Provinces . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1975. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Saharan2
  • Morocco last month broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, alleging that Tehran had provided financial and logistical support as well as surface-to-air missiles to the Algerian-backed West Saharan liberation movement , Frente Polisario, using Hezbollah as an intermediary. (therealnews.com)
  • Morocco withdrew from the AU in 1984, when the mineral-rich and sparsely populated Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) - commonly known as Western Sahara - was accepted as a member. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Referendum2
  • In order to resolve the sovereignty issue, the UN has attempted to hold a referendum through the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and is holding direct talks between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • For the past seven years, Russia has been calling on the US to adopt new language in Western Sahara resolutions in an attempt to emphasize its mission in organizing a self determination referendum in the Sahara. (abidjanherald.com)
Algeria's4
  • The situation in Ukraine, which dangerously escalates tensions between Russia - Algeria's strategic partner and main arms supplier - and the North African country's Western partners, is a major test for Algerian non-alignment on the international stage. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Earlier this month, the Italian energy giant ENI stated that it expects a doubling of Italian imports of Algerian gas by 2024 and a 50 percent increase in Algeria's gas exports to France is possible. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The US also rejected a Russian-Mozambique maneuver, seeking to limit Algeria's role in the Western Sahara dispute. (abidjanherald.com)
  • The UN Secretary General annual report on the Sahara dispute further acknowledged Algeria's obstruction of the UN-led political process over Western Sahara. (abidjanherald.com)
Annexation2
  • The Annexation of Western Sahara by Morocco took place in two stages, in 1976 and 1979, and is considered illegal under international law . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Morocco maintains that Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom, but the international community has not recognized the annexation. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Clashes2
  • Despite sporadic clashes with protestors and occasional use of tear gas and rubber bullets, government forces exhibited restraint with only one death reported. (state.gov)
  • [1] Scores have been killed in clashes between these groups since 2018. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
Sahara's4
  • Spain's stance on the matter is especially important, as the country was Western Sahara's colonial ruler until 1976 . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Relations between Madrid and Rabat have been frosty since May 2021, when Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, for hospital treatment after he suffered complications related to COVID-19. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The reason for this unequivocal US position is that Morocco has not right to extract and sell Western Sahara's resources, as long as the political status of the territory has not been resolved. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco has made an official request to join the African Union (AU) again more than four decades after leaving the pan-African bloc in protest at Western Sahara's membership. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Sahrawi1
  • The occupation of Western Sahara has resulted in enormous suffering and deprivation for the Sahrawi people, the rightful owners of the land and the natural resources of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
Hezbollah1
  • In Western Sahara, Hezbollah and Iran have armed and trained the Polisario Front against Morocco. (express.co.uk)
Exports1
Libya3
  • [1] As the crossings to Greece and Spain have in fact increased over the past year, the overall decrease in arrivals via the sea in 2018 stems from Europe's offensive against migrants leaving from Libya. (alarmphone.org)
  • Now Russia is steadily making its way through war-thorn Libya and politically troubled Morocco and Tunisia. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • South-western Libya, the Fezzan region, is a vast desert spotted with lucrative oil fields, oases, long-range trade routes and deep sub-desert aquifers. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
MINURSO1
  • The UN Security Council is set to vote on the new draft resolution on Monday to extend the mandate of MINURSO, a peacekeeping operation in Western Sahara. (abidjanherald.com)
Independence4
  • Western Sahara , formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Sahara , is a disputed territory claimed by both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front) , which is an independence movement based in Tifariti and Bir Lehlou . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • From this point on, and especially with the Algerian war of independence, Moscow began to invest in this sub-region of the Arab world. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified. (explained.today)
  • Since independence, Morocco has remained relatively stable. (explained.today)
Arabic1
  • Many people have a limiting narrative about life in the Middle East, and tend to lump the countries all together: assuming they all speak Arabic, are majority Muslim, have economies based on oil, and have non-Democratic governments. (istizada.com)
Kingdom of Moro2
  • The official position of the Kingdom of Morocco since 1963 is that all of Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco has officially submitted a request to accede to the African Union Constitutive Act, and therefore, become a Member of the Union," the statement read. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Polisario4
  • Although the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) treats the status of Western Sahara as 'undetermined', its lack of reference to its current effective partition, considering the existence of the Polisario-held areas, indicates an acceptance of Morocco as the administering power in the entire territory. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Both countries sought to introduce amendments to link the dispute to Morocco and Polisario exclusively, to alleviate pressure on the Algerian regime, which has continued to shirk its responsibility in the dispute. (abidjanherald.com)
  • Citing secret service reports and financial investigators, German publication Die Welt reports Tehran has been expanding its network for several years, including arming the Polisario Front militia against Morocco. (express.co.uk)
  • Lemine Al-Kitab allegedly offered to support the Polisario Front, but stressed that its resources were not yet sufficient to attack the Israeli embassy in Morocco. (express.co.uk)
Imports2
  • WSRW section Louisiana in October sent a letter to the US-Canadian fertiliser producer, PCS, demanding that they terminate its imports from Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • While inflation increased from 1.6% to 2.1% earlier this year, it is expected to drop to 1.1% later this year as the government is able to cut energy imports and subsidies and agricultural prices fall. (moroccoonthemove.com)
Https4
  • Al Jazeera, 2 May 2018, https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/iranians-respond-regime-leave-syria-180501081025309.html. (ti-defence.org)
  • 2. Saeed Kamali Dehghan, "Iran sentences Tehran professor to jail for 'anti-state propaganda'," The Guardian, 14 March 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/iran-sentences-tehran-professor-to-jail-for-anti-state-propaganda. (ti-defence.org)
  • 1. "Iran will never talk to anybody who sets conditions for it: FM Zarif," Press TV, 17 December 2018, https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/12/17/583218/Zarif-US-Pompeo-conditions-Twitter-Doha. (ti-defence.org)
  • 2. "Iran Army to Hold War Games to Boost Capabilities: Commander," Tasnim News Agency, 26 December 2018, https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2018/12/26/1908335/iran-army-to-hold-war-games-to-boost-capabilities-commander. (ti-defence.org)
Phosphates2
  • We are aware that PCS has imported phosphates from Western Sahara for processing in Geismar, LA for decades. (wsrw.org)
  • By importing phosphates from Western Sahara, PCS thus supports the continuation of the illegal occupation and contributes to undermining the UN peace process. (wsrw.org)
Summit2
  • As Russia feverishly preparing for the second all-African leaders summit, Kester Kenn Klomegah held an emailed interview focusing on some aspects of Russia-Maghreb relations with Dr. Chtatou Mohamed, a senior professor of Middle Eastern politics at the International University of Rabat (IUR) as well as education science at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. (geostrategicmedia.com)
  • This file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows an African Union summit at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
Mali1
  • A few days before this statement, the French government cut official development assistance (ODA) to Mali because it believed that Mali's government is "allied to Wagner's Russian mercenaries. (midwesternmarx.com)
Mediterranean1
  • [2] Also in the Aegean we have repeatedly witnessed and documented 'push' or 'pull-back' operations both at sea and land borders while, in the Western Mediterranean, the Spanish government is testing new avenues for systematic returns of the rescued to Morocco. (alarmphone.org)
Mauritania1
Tunisia1
Parliament2
  • The Houthi in Yemen have officially declared war on Israel and have targeted southern Israel with long-range missiles and drones and the Algerian parliament voted for war against the Jewish state. (express.co.uk)
  • [16] Morocco is a unitary semi- constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. (explained.today)
Russia1
  • This is not the first time that Russia obstructs the UN-led political process - particularly with regards to negotiations over new resolutions for Western Sahara. (abidjanherald.com)
Iran2
  • The newspaper reported that Iran was seeking to recruit Algerian Shiites who travel to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq and was using Iranian companies as vehicles to promote Shiism. (therealnews.com)
  • Israel is concerned that weapons provided by the U.S. and other Western nations to Ukraine will end up in the hands of Israel's foes in the Middle East, including Iran. (dailyalert.org)
Politically1
  • We would like to inform you that trade with and transportation of mineral resources from occupied Western Sahara is politically controversial, highly unethical and potentially against international law. (wsrw.org)
Afghan1
  • In February 2020, the U.S. and Taliban insurgents signed a deal in which Washington pledged to withdraw international forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban promising to prevent international terrorists from using Afghan territory to threaten the U.S. and to enter talks with the Afghan government. (cemas.org.uk)
State8
  • The Algerian state is aware today that it faces the risk of sectarianism," the newspaper asserted. (therealnews.com)
  • Syria's SANA state news agency reported Israeli strikes on Wednesday targeting multiple locations in Damascus including near its airport. (dailyalert.org)
  • Western Sahara is listed by the United Nations (UN) as a non- decolonized territory and is thus included in the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories , which regards Spain as the de jure administering state. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • He also put forward changes to the residence permission law in Germany, noting that the reforms would see many more applicants "voluntarily" leave the western European state. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The news comes after a suicide bombing on Thursday by Islamic State offshoot ISIS-K left at least 60 Afghans and 13 US military personnel dead. (enterprise.press)
  • Driver's licenses and other cards issued by state or regional governments indicating certain permissions are not counted here as national identity cards. (wikipedia.org)
  • So for example, by this criterion, the United States driver's license is excluded, as these are issued by local (state) governments. (wikipedia.org)
  • He was sentenced to jail in 2018 for anti-state propaganda, and banned from giving interviews and writing in the newspapers. (ti-defence.org)
Constitutional1
  • The president has the constitutional authority to appoint and dismiss cabinet members and the prime minister, who is the head of government. (state.gov)
Mali's1
Nations1
  • Ce gouvernement doit voir le jour à Tripoli au terme d'un fragile accord conclu en décembre sous l'égide des Nations unies. (over-blog.com)
Democracy2
  • Britain has been urged to not underestimate the scale of this threat to western democracy by Rochford and Southend East MP James Duddridge. (express.co.uk)
  • But we must not underestimate the scale of this threat to Western democracy. (express.co.uk)
France2
  • According to a report by the French organization France Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrand, the Sahrawis have been systematically marginalized from the phosphate industry in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Rather, it is about widespread suspicions among Algerians toward France and other NATO members' intentions. (thefrontierpost.com)
International2
  • In addition to ethical concerns, the companies involved in this trade should be aware that the trade is most probably in violation of international law. (wsrw.org)
  • Under international law, Western Sahara is not a legal part of Morocco and it remains under the international laws of military occupation . (decisivechro276.cfd)
Crisis1
  • Teoría e Historia Militares y Temas de Interés Permanente en los Conflictos y Crisis Modernos. (conflictosmodernos.com)
Ceuta2
  • 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)
Organization1
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
Diplomatic1
  • 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)
Exploitation1
  • The answer is from countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bolivia, Chile and Morocco, where environmental destruction and workers' exploitation will continue and even intensify. (tni.org)
World4
  • Morocco has occupied the territory ever since, a presence most of the world considers illegal. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Businesses around the world have realized their ethical obligations and have stopped importing natural resources from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Sign up for digital rights news from around the world directly in your inbox. (globalvoices.org)
  • They are offered with the hope that the U.S. government will find in them ideas that can help it resolve old conflicts and defuse new ones, all in the service of a more peaceful world. (cemas.org.uk)
Foreign2
  • The Western Sahara issue is always central to Algerian foreign policy decision-making. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The Marinid and Saadi dynasties otherwise resisted foreign domination, and Morocco was the only North African nation to escape Ottoman dominion. (explained.today)
Support3
  • It was used also for close air support roles in the First Indochina War, the Algerian War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. (wikipedia.org)
  • This kind of support makes Morocco less inclined to contribute to finding a solution to the occupation, and makes delaying tactics and attempting to profit from the existing situation more attractive. (wsrw.org)
  • Repeating its formula for yet another successful foray into an African economy, China has agreed to form a joint enterprise with Morocco to develop an industrial and technology park, hosting hundreds of Chinese companies , to support manufacturing centers in the Tanger region. (moroccoonthemove.com)
Official2
  • Official position of wartime government was that they were a co-belligerent of the Axis against the USSR and United Kingdom during the Continuation War , but generally considered to be a member of the Axis (see e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is no government engagement in public discourse about defence issues or official communications contain no meaningful information. (ti-defence.org)
Sought1
  • By 2021, the new Sudanese government began having second thoughts about the deal and sought new terms that included economic aid ( The Arab Weekly , September 16, 2021). (aberfoylesecurity.com)
Change1
Member1
  • The Muslim Brotherhood are not seeking power," Mohammed Morsi, a member of the group's media office, said at a news conference. (blogspot.com)