• Christian Juhl, a green-left MP that initiated the motion, told EUobserver his peers were all worried that Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara was getting worse. (euobserver.com)
  • Some commentators have connected Morocco's interests over the region with the idea of Greater Morocco, which encompasses Western Sahara and parts of both Mauritania, Mali, and Algeria, and according to the narrative, was divided up by the French and Spanish colonizers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dozens of United Nations international staffers pulled out of their Western Sahara mission on Sunday after Morocco demanded they leave because of Ban Ki-Moon's remarks about the disputed territory, Morocco's state news agency and a source said. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Special envoy to the foreign ministry, Ammar Ballani, said Morocco's invitation to Algeria to a roundtable on the Western Sahara issue was "outdated," in comments he made to the state-run Algeria Press Service . (libyanexpress.com)
  • The official described Morocco's proposal to establish autonomy in the Western Sahara region as an "illusory desire and a proposition doomed to failure," as he blamed Rabat for being behind any regional deterioration for not supporting a "just and final solution to the conflict through a referendum for self-determination. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • While the Polisario Front had waged a low-intensity war of national liberation against Spanish colonial authorities since May 1973, the Western Sahara War began in October 1975, just weeks before the death of long-time Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, when Moroccan and Mauritanian forces, aided by France, invaded the Spanish colony. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco said he used the word 'occupation' to describe its annexation of the region at the centre of a struggle since 1975, when Morocco took over from colonial power Spain. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • Rabat's tense relations with Algiers have deteriorated since Morocco last year won Washington's recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for normalising ties with Israel. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Morocco and Algeria have long been at odds over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, where the Algiers-backed Polisario Front is seeking independence from Rabat's rule. (aawsat.com)
  • In February, three Danish journalists who came to see the situation in Western Sahara for themselves were expelled by Moroccan authorities," he added. (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)
  • The 2020-2023 Western Saharan clashes, also called the Guerguerat crisis, Moroccan military intervention in Guerguerat or Second Western Sahara War, is an armed conflict between the Kingdom of Morocco and the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), represented at the United Nations by the Polisario Front, in the disputed region of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tensions between Morocco and the Polisario Front deepened in mid-October 2020 when Sahrawi peaceful protesters blocked a controversial road connecting Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara to sub-Saharan Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clashes spread that same day along the Moroccan Berm, with Morocco claiming that it had repelled a Sahrawi incursion near Al Mahbes. (wikipedia.org)
  • November 13 last year marked the latest escalation between Moroccan armed forces and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic - represented at the UN by the Polisario Front - in the disputed desert territory south of the kingdom. (libyanexpress.com)
  • He visited Rabat in early July and met with Moroccan officials, but he didn't visit the Western Sahara region, hoping to be able to do so sometime later. (aawsat.com)
  • Morocco began constructing the wall in 1980, after a war with indigenous Sahrawi fighters who demanded that Western Sahara be given autonomy from Morocco. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Rabat, which controls nearly 80 percent of the territory, is pushing for autonomy under its sovereignty. (aawsat.com)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • Since then, the region has been the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco, supported by a number of its prominent Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and the Saharawi Republic (SADR), an African Union member state established by the Algerian-backed pro-independence Polisario Front, which is recognized by the United Nations as the legitimate representative of the indigenous Sahrawi people. (wikipedia.org)
  • The map affirms the Sahrawi Republic's claim over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, but also draws Morocco up to the de facto border, which conflicts with both countries' claim over the land. (axenewsroom.com)
  • In 1991, a truce was negotiated with the promise on a referendum on the right to self-determination of Western Saharan inhabitants, the Sahrawi. (lu.se)
  • According to the MINURSO, both Morocco and Polisario deployed forces near the area in late October, with Mauritanian forces reinforcing their positions along its border with Morocco, which is controlled by the Polisario Front. (wikipedia.org)
  • Western Sahara, disputed between Morocco and the Saharawi people's Polisario Front, is listed among the UN's non-self-governing territories. (time.com)
  • The (UN) Security Council resolutions explicitly specify which parties are involved, and that is Morocco and the Polisario Front. (libyanexpress.com)
  • The two officials discussed the latest developments on the Western Sahara issue and prospects of bolstering UN efforts to resume direct negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and the separatist Polisario Front. (aawsat.com)
  • The disputed status of Western Sahara -- a former Spanish colony considered a "non-autonomous territory" by the United Nations -- has pitted Morocco against the Polisario Front since the 1970s. (aawsat.com)
  • The judicial activism in a relatively uncharted area in this field, external relations, was analyzed through a qualitative case study of the CJEU case Polisario Front , concerning the application of a EU trade agreement to the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • By contrast, countries that acknowledge their direct role in a territorial dispute tend to face greater external pressure than those that exercise control by proxy. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Despite the establishment of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara in 1991, the referendum was never held. (wikipedia.org)
  • The region was a Spanish colony until February 1976, when the Spanish government informed the United Nations that it withdrew from the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • I n 2014, six weeks after Russia invaded the Crimea, Google Maps took a major step, one that the United States, United Nations, and international community still refuse to take: it recognized the Crimea as Russian territory-but only on some versions of the product. (time.com)
  • Today, the United Nations prevents recognition of such claims but remains largely incapable of influencing the status quo, leaving territories in an enduring twilight zone. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Algeria announced on Wednesday its refusal to participate in any future negotiations on the disputed Western Sahara territory. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Ballani renewed Algiers' call to launch a UN-mediated political process and "provide the necessary conditions for a situation prior to 13 November, 2020, a return to the original criteria for a political settlement and the launch of effective negotiations, in good faith and without preconditions, between the parties involved in the dispute. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • For example, Russia occupies territories the United States and European Union recognize as parts of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, yet Crimea is the only Russian-occupied territory subject to Western sanctions. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • 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)
  • It was the latest escalation of an unresolved conflict over the region, which is largely occupied by Morocco, but 20-25% is administered by the SADR. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Mauritania withdrew from Western Sahara and recognized the Saharawi Republic early in the conflict, by the end of the war Morocco had obtained control of more than two-thirds of the vast desert territory in its western part, along the Atlantic Ocean. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since there are multiple zones of disputed territories and occupation around the globe, setting policy toward one conflict raises the question of whether similar policies will be enacted toward others. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Some territorial disputes have prompted the forced expulsion or wartime flight of the pre-conflict population. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Algeria's involvement in the so-called round tables is no longer on the agenda," clarified Ballani, as he claimed Morocco was trying to portray Algiers as being a party in the Western Sahara conflict. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Previously, sustained control over territory led to eventual acceptance of the prevailing power's claims to sovereignty. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Meanwhile, users of the standard .com version of Google Maps saw a third reality: a dashed line between the Crimea and Ukraine indicating that the border was now disputed. (time.com)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • The violence ended a ceasefire between the opposing sides that had held for 29 years in anticipation of a referendum of self-determination that would have settled the dispute. (wikipedia.org)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • The disputed region of Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area mostly comprising desert territories, situated in the Maghreb region of Africa's northwest coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco, claiming Tindouf and Béchar provinces, invaded Algeria in 1963, resulting in the brief Sand War, which ended in a military stalemate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Algeria on 24 August cut diplomatic relations with its neighbour, accusing it of "hostile actions" including using Israeli technology to spy on its officials, charges Morocco dismisses. (libyanexpress.com)
  • Morocco has recently renewed adherence to the political process, of which Algeria is a major party, in accordance with Resolution 2602, which calls for a just, realistic and lasting mutually acceptable political solution to the Sahara issue. (aawsat.com)
  • UN special envoy for the Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura arrived in Algiers on Monday and held talks with Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra. (aawsat.com)
  • Morocco is increasingly negative about the peace process. (euobserver.com)
  • Today, supranational technology and social media companies increasingly take on government-like functions of their own accord and wade into activities we typically associate with the domain of sovereign states. (time.com)
  • Porous borders have come hand-in-hand with globalisation, and nation states in the Middle East are increasingly turning to construction companies to secure their boundaries. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Now, though, growing concern over instability is increasingly leading neighbours to seek concrete solutions to political disputes. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Yet, at the same time, U.S. customs policy on goods imports from other territories is also inconsistent: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has explicit guidelines that goods imported from the West Bank must be labelled as such, while goods that enter the United States from other occupied zones, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, encounter no customs interference. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • The border between Morocco and the disputed territory of the Western Sahara is marked by an estimated 2700km of sand and stone walling bisecting the desert landscape. (middleeasteye.net)
  • The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Morocco denied there had been any armed clashes between the sides and said the truce remained in place, while SADR authorities declared the ceasefire over. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tech companies' executive ranks are filled with former high-powered government officials, Supreme Court-like oversight boards impose First Amendment obligations on these private entities, they send "ambassadors" to build relationships with foreign governments. (time.com)
  • From the British East India Company in the 18th-century to airlines and energy companies of the present, private corporations have long found themselves mired in international conflicts. (time.com)
  • Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Yet products from Nagorno-Karabakh - which the United States and European Union recognize as part of Azerbaijan - freely enter Western markets labeled as products of Armenia. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • This is partly due to Google's role in our lives as a purveyor of fact, combined with the sense that digital mapping is scientific, objective, and unbiased, as well as the reality that many governments have outsourced data management functions to private companies. (time.com)
  • As one of the most powerful companies in the world, Google Maps is often treated as the ultimate authority in mapping. (time.com)
  • On many occasions accused of being fake news, the truth is that they have achieved an unprecedented mobilization, both within Israel and Palestine, and throughout the world. (unav.edu)
  • UN special envoy for the Western Sahara region Staffan de Mistura. (aawsat.com)
  • The plan seeks to legalize Israel's control over some of the territory it conquered in the 1967 Six Day War and has controlled ever since. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • On 13 November, Morocco launched a military operation from the Berm into the demilitarized buffer strip of Western Sahara to clear the protesters near Guerguerat and restore the free movement of goods and people. (wikipedia.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Juhl said that Danish companies and municipalities should not take the risk of breaking international law. (euobserver.com)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • They have also been lenient toward Morocco, which built a 1,700-mile long barrier to protect settled areas of Western Sahara and imported hundreds of thousands of settlers there. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Rabat accused Ban earlier this month of no longer being neutral in the Western Sahara dispute. (ahram.org.eg)
  • 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)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • MrBeast appears to recognize American Samoa, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico as independent states, rather than territories of the United States and the United Kingdom. (axenewsroom.com)
  • The map also gave Canada claim over island territories that are currently part of Greenland and Norway. (axenewsroom.com)
  • While Morocco controls some 80 percent of the Western Sahara, the rest is administered by the Polisario. (libyanexpress.com)
  • It is illegal to buy goods from or invest in occupied territories", he said. (euobserver.com)
  • The delegation's programme didn't include any meetings with representatives of Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • He said the government will promote knowledge on the situation in Western Sahara with interest groups such as the confederation of Danish industries. (euobserver.com)
  • MAP state news agency said a 'significant number' of UN staffers had left Laayoune airport in U.N. aircraft and commercial flights to Las Palmas in Spain. (ahram.org.eg)
  • For most global users, Google Maps separates Western Sahara from Morocco with a dashed line and uses the same font as sovereign countries in its label, but in Morocco, Western Sahara disappears. (time.com)
  • Likewise, there are some that want to know if their products originate from an occupied territory. (lu.se)