• In this referendum, the entire present-day population of Western Sahara would participate, including people who had migrated from or been settled by Morocco post-1975, something which Polisario had so far refused. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the other hand, a provision that the interim local government (the Western Sahara Authority) would be elected only by a restricted voters' list (those identified as original inhabitants of the territory by MINURSO) alienated Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • The conflict over the Western Sahara has defied resolution for over twenty years. (hrw.org)
  • As Spain prepared to withdraw from its colonial territory in 1975, Morocco stepped in and occupied most of the Western Sahara. (hrw.org)
  • A subsidiary of the US company has signed a contract with the Moroccan king's energy firm for a large wind farm in Western Sahara, consistently referring to the location as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • In early July, WSRW contacted the energy companies that are pre-qualified to build windmills in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Amid an ongoing dispute on the EU-Morocco trade agreement, the Danish parliament on Thursday (2 June) voted unanimously to warn Danish companies and municipalities from trading with Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • King Mohammed VI said two years ago that "[Western] Sahara will remain a part of Morocco until the end of time. (euobserver.com)
  • Sweden u-turned on a decision to recognise Western Sahara earlier this year, and signed a extradition agreement allowing it to return Moroccan children that are living on Swedish streets. (euobserver.com)
  • A delegation from the European Parliament's Morocco friendship group is visiting Western Sahara on Saturday and Sunday (4 and 5 June) on Rabat's invitation. (euobserver.com)
  • Young refugees in Algeria camps feel betrayed by EU over Western Sahara, threaten attacks on Morocco, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon makes rare trip to 'forgotten' conflict. (euobserver.com)
  • After two years of diplomatic deadlock, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a new envoy for Western Sahara, a territory disputed between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, which represents the ethnic Sahrawi population of the territory. (crisisgroup.org)
  • On 10 December 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union annulled the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement in so far as it applies to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • What this means is that cherry tomatoes from Western Sahara can be sold at the European market labeled as originating from Morocco. (lu.se)
  • After Morocco had voiced early objections to Baker II, the Polisario front reluctantly accepted the plan as a basis for negotiations. (wikipedia.org)
  • What had begun as an issue of decolonization erupted into armed conflict, as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), the Western Saharan liberation movement, fought for independence from Morocco, and over 100,000 Western Saharan (Sahrawi) refugees fled to southwestern Algeria, where they settled in tent camps. (hrw.org)
  • In 1988, both Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to a United Nations (U.N.) Settlement Plan (the "Settlement Plan. (hrw.org)
  • In November 2020, fighting flared up between Morocco and the Polisario Front. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Western Sahara's administration by Morocco since 1975 is challenged by Polisario guerillas living in exile in neighbouring Algeria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • "Inter-communal violence is spreading, threatening to reignite the ethnic tensions that fueled the deadly conflict 20 years ago," he added. (africanews.com)
  • The "Al Jazeera reporting problem" has now been solved: The network has been incorporated into the mainstream media empire and is now being used for propaganda purposes along with the other major networks, specializing in skewed reporting on conflicts in Libya and Syria. (blogspot.com)
  • Referring to Friday's devastating earthquake in Morocco, on the other side of North Africa, Ramadan said the situation in Libya was as devastating as the situation in Morocco. (knimbus.com)
  • Now, people across the region look at conflict-torn places such as Iraq and Syria, Jane says, "and they see those countries being ripped apart and a lot of them are thinking, 'OK, things aren't so great here but it could get a whole lot worse. (kpcw.org)
  • But in an astonishing irony that only the conflict in Syria could produce, American and allied cruise missiles would be degrading the capability of the regime's military units to the benefit of the al-Qaeda-linked militants fighting Assad-the same militants whom U.S. drones are attacking regularly in places such as Yemen. (motherjones.com)
  • There is a new mood that allows us to achieve reconciliation,' Meshaal said in an interview last Friday from Qatar , where he has been based since leaving Syria earlier this year. (worldcrunch.com)
  • The Regional Director presented his report to the Regional Committee on the work of WHO in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2016 and early 2017. (who.int)
  • Grant dates correspond to the MACECE orientation and the academic year in Morocco, which will be from late August 2024 until early July 2025. (fulbrightonline.org)
  • By early 2024, when the next HLPF review is due, the German govern-ment and the EU should have developed reform proposals. (swp-berlin.org)
  • This stalled the process, and by the late 1990s, Morocco had begun declaring the referendum a "dead option. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the run-up to the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s, these standards were portrayed as a largely symbolic sop to Congressional Democrats (as well as their allies in the labor and human rights movements) but they have grown increasingly serious over time, and the Colombian agreement includes what some have described as the most forceful versions of such standards to date. (bostonreview.net)
  • Morocco demanded the inclusion of all people now living in the territory, including all Moroccan settlers. (wikipedia.org)
  • That number corresponded quite closely to the Spanish census of 75,000 persons, which caused Morocco to launch appeals against the voter list on behalf of over 100,000 rejected applicants from the Moroccan side. (wikipedia.org)
  • A month later, President Donald Trump threw fuel on the fire and jeopardized the traditional U.S. role as a neutral broker between the parties by recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the territory in exchange for Morocco normalizing its relations with Israel . (crisisgroup.org)
  • Throughout the long summer of 2014, as Hamas fired rockets deep into Israel from Gaza and the Israeli military retaliated with air strikes, a bizarre celebrity cultural phenomenon 8,000 miles away caught the media's attention: A narrative tug-of-war between Israelis and Palestinians took center stage in Hollywood as famous actors, musicians and industry insiders weighed in on the conflict. (momentmag.com)
  • Some celebrities jumped in only to retreat quickly: The singer Rihanna and basketball player Dwight Howard both tweeted-then deleted-#FreePalestine, while Spanish actors Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem signed an open letter that referred to "genocide" against Palestinians, then backpedaled when faced with a severe reaction from colleagues. (momentmag.com)
  • When the PLO tried to establish a state-within-a-state in the kingdom in the late 60's and early 70's, Jordan's King Hussein ordered the army to launch a massive assault on the refugee camps in the kingdom, massacring thousands of Palestinians in what has since become to be known as Black September. (tundratabloids.com)
  • His trip comes after a ceasefire that ended eight days of armed conflict between Israel and Hamas last month. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • Some of these conflicts - like the Guatemalan Civil War, or the liberation war in Bangladesh - resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people, making them some of the most destructive wars of the 20th century. (toptenz.net)
  • The Bangladesh Liberation War was a major conflict rooted in the complex colonial history of South Asia. (toptenz.net)
  • It was primarily fueled by broken promises of self rule following the Second World War, resulting in an all-out guerilla conflict by the National Liberation Front - or FLN - in November 1954. (toptenz.net)
  • National concerns are not gone, however: A number of informants this December referred to perceived tensions between Morocco's King Mohammed VI and President Trump. (merip.org)
  • What matters most about the fact that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first nation to recognize the independence of the United States in 1777 is that most Moroccans know it and still express pride about the long official friendship. (merip.org)
  • "As the conflict in Sudan enters its third month, the humanitarian situation across the country continues to deteriorate," he noted, referring to the 1.7 million displaced people and half a million refugees, the looting of humanitarian supplies and the hundreds of deaths as a result of fighting between the army of General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo. (africanews.com)
  • The United States had brokered this deal and it also involved other countries like Morocco, Sudan and Bahrain. (onlineisraelnews.com)
  • But Israel has continued to fuel violence and atrocities in Africa by supplying arms used in conflicts in South Sudan and Burundi and sending weapons to Rwanda before the 1994 genocide - a role Israel has sought to cover up . (electronicintifada.net)
  • Earlier this month, Israel's public broadcaster KAN reported on efforts to get Sudan to participate in the next Negev Forum. (al-monitor.com)
  • Sudan is part of the Abraham Accords, but has not yet finalized its normalization agreement with Israel, and is now embroiled in conflict. (al-monitor.com)
  • Al-Monitor learned on Friday from a senior diplomatic source that another meeting of the Negev Forum - originally initiated under then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, hosting counterparts from the United States, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt - is expected to convene again in Morocco, in about a month. (al-monitor.com)
  • The topics of discussion were likely to be the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Abraham Accords, proxy forces of Iran and the stalled nuclear talks. (onlineisraelnews.com)
  • According to the Foreign Ministry, Levy's visit was aimed at strengthening and expanding the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco and dealing with bilateral US-Israeli issues. (al-monitor.com)
  • The UN brokered a ceasefire in 1991, after 16 years of armed conflict. (euobserver.com)
  • An anti-Zionist narrative has for many years displaced media objectivity in every conflict involving Israel. (ynetnews.com)
  • But Israel does not appear capable of defending itself on its own: within a few days of the conflict there have been reports of large shipments of US military equipment, the promise of a $2 billion defence package, and the visit of Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin to personally assess and meet Israel's needs. (thehindu.com)
  • In a barely coherent speech during the Israeli leader's visit to Uganda last year, President Yoweri Museveni repeatedly referred to Israel as "Palestine" and the Star of David as the "Star of Joseph. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Morocco, however, then rejected the plan, saying that it would no longer agree to any referendum that included independence as an option. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fought between 1945 and 1949, the Indonesian War of Independence was an armed conflict between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire. (toptenz.net)
  • The Algerian War of Independence, also sometimes called the Algerian revolution , was an anticolonial armed conflict against French rule that began in 1954 and lasted until 1962. (toptenz.net)
  • 1 The referendum would ask Sahrawis to choose between independence or integration into Morocco. (hrw.org)
  • In other words, the NAM can be seen as an early example of globalization, i.e. a strategic structuring on global scale in form of a confederation for the purpose to internationalize a political Cause, which is the Cause of independence from colonialism, and from any other principle of hegemonic powers. (dutchartinstitute.eu)
  • The matter was then referred to the Arbitral Court in The Hague and the two governments showed a more conciliatory spirit. (thefreegeography.com)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
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  • I will raise the issue in the Nordic council and the Nordic council of ministers," Juhl said, referring to the cooperation bodies that unite MPs and ministers from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in addition to his native Denmark. (euobserver.com)
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  • Human Rights Watch has determined that Morocco, which is the stronger of the two parties both militarily and diplomatically, has regularly engaged in conduct that has obstructed and compromised the fairness of the referendum process. (hrw.org)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • The prime minister was also full of praise for the censure of Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency a day earlier. (onlineisraelnews.com)
  • For nearly a decade before the fall of northern Mali in early 2012, AQIM and its predecessor, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), worked to establish itself within local social and economic structures in the region, including trafficking and other business networks. (usma.edu)
  • Various speakers referred to the siyar treatises - a sophisticated body of rules governing armed conflict that goes back to the earliest days of Islamic civilization. (icrc.org)
  • Adequacy refers to collection of two stool specimens ≥24 hours apart, within 14 days of paralysis onset, and arrival at a WHO-accredited laboratory in good condition. (cdc.gov)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • Morocco is increasingly negative about the peace process. (euobserver.com)
  • And because Los Angeles is the ever-beating heart of the world's entertainment industry, Hollywood has increasingly become a location where the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict play out in public view. (momentmag.com)
  • Because I think that when a country that is party to such conflict and hostility is placed at the margins of international bodies, the level and opportunity for increased lack of accountability is just too open for us. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The conflict has left the oil rich North African country with crumbling and inadequate infrastructure. (knimbus.com)
  • In March 1907, after the killing of the French physician Mauchamp in Morocco, he occupied Oudjda in eastern Morocco. (thefreegeography.com)
  • A total of 295 Early Career and Finance, the Staff Physician, and the research Groups. (who.int)
  • New Zealanders generic Albendazole For Order to Morocco should ensure with your permission, I m going to and early sixteenth centuries. (gymnasium-finow.com)
  • On 25 and 26 April 2006, the ICRC and Qarawiyyin University in Fès, Morocco, one of the oldest academic institutions in the Muslim world, held a seminar on the protection of civilians in armed conflict under Islamic law and international humanitarian law. (icrc.org)
  • International dynamics also played a major role in the conflict. (toptenz.net)
  • As one of the participants said, "Considering the enormous challenges presented by today's conflicts, scholars must continue to search for common denominators between Islamic law and international humanitarian law. (icrc.org)
  • In his opening speech, the president of Qarawiyyin University, Dr Ali Seqelli Al Hussaini, pointed out that the seminar - the first of its kind in Morocco - reflected the university's new interest in the international sphere, and particularly in the work of humanitarian organizations. (icrc.org)
  • There is a statement of an individual who alleges that she worked in the US embassy in Morocco when Obamas went through an international adoption there. (blogspot.com)
  • The intended strengthening of the HLPF was blocked by numerous con-flicts over environmental and development issues as well as overarching conflict lines concerning the international order. (swp-berlin.org)
  • As well as dif-ferences over environmental and development issues, these also included overarching conflict lines relating to the international order. (swp-berlin.org)
  • It would come to be known as the Suez crisis, now remembered as one of the most important conflicts of the Cold War era. (toptenz.net)
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  • Morocco has proposed autonomy for the territory as a final solution to the conflict. (wikipedia.org)
  • he said in a statement, even though the region was the scene of a war in the early 2000s that left around 300,000 people dead. (africanews.com)
  • Authorities estimated earlier that as many as 2,000 people may have perished in Derna alone. (knimbus.com)
  • Being multi-dimensional and internally heterogeneous, NAM changed its subject matter from the political cause to statehood, which in time became the crucial point of the conflict and the inner split within the Movement itself. (dutchartinstitute.eu)
  • Once it became clear that Mali's army was not capable of reconquering the north and a foreign intervention was months away, neighboring countries, as well as Malian actors,[3] began multiple processes of mediation to arrive at a political solution to the conflict. (usma.edu)
  • human resources for cancer research at different stages of their career in many countries and has also helped (col ectively referred to as Early Career hosting EnvironmEnt to shape the Agency's research strategy and Visiting Scientists) opportunities to and widen its network of col aborators. (who.int)
  • Technology is programmed with conflicting goals and by many entities, and politics is a matter of defining how to separate its noise from its information. (e-flux.com)
  • Museveni also referred to the fact that early Zionists had considered Uganda, instead of Palestine, as a target for their colonization. (electronicintifada.net)
  • Old and new conflicts in the field are revealed, along with over-arching conflict lines that will also continue to affect future UN reform processes. (swp-berlin.org)
  • Since early 2005, the UN Secretary General has not referred to the plan in his reports, and by now it seems largely dead. (wikipedia.org)
  • A day after the visit of Israel's Foreign Ministry Director General Ronen Levy to Washington, Al-Monitor has learned that the Negev Forum is expected to convene in a month, in Morocco, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken participating. (al-monitor.com)
  • Most demoralizing, for a longtime Morocco observer, is a pervasive sense that President Trump represents a generalized and expanding American hostility toward Muslims. (merip.org)
  • The emphasis in the earlier papers, and in the first paper in particular, was largely on volume or 'street crimes' such as assault, theft and public order offences. (who.int)
  • After the 16th century conflict for rule over the island got France and Spain involved, Corsica fell conclusively into Genoa's hands. (worldatlas.com)