• 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)
  • By 2030, half of Morocco's wind energy production could be generated illegally in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Five days before adopting the new press code, parliament added to the penal code provisions, imposing prison on those who cross Morocco's long-standing "red lines"- "causing harm" to Islam, the monarchy, the person of the king and the royal family, and Morocco's "territorial integrity" (a reference to its claim to Western Sahara). (hrw.org)
  • Ali Anouzla, editor of the independent news website Lakome2.com, faced prosecution for harming Morocco's "territorial integrity" after an interview with a German newspaper in 2015 quoted him as referring to Western Sahara as "occupied. (hrw.org)
  • In a strongly worded statement, Dr Fred M'membe, President of the Socialist Party of Zambia, criticized opposition leader Mr Hakainde Hichilema for aligning himself with what he referred to as "imperialists" in recognizing Morocco's colonization of Western Sahara. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Highlighting the consequences of this recognition, Dr M'membe continued, "By siding with imperialists and recognizing Morocco's colonization of Western Sahara, Mr Hichilema has not only disregarded the aspirations of the Sahrawi people for independence but has also compromised Zambia's reputation as a supporter of justice and freedom. (lusakatimes.com)
  • 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)
  • He requested the support of the USG for Morocco's efforts on the Western Sahara, which he called the "lifeblood" of Morocco. (jcvignoli.com)
  • A pivotal provision of the accord was the United States' recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory. (fanack.com)
  • The agreement also endorsed Morocco's proposal to settle its dispute with the Polisario Front over this region through a principle of regional autonomy within Morocco, without seeking secession. (fanack.com)
  • Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara could be beneficial for development as well, according to Rachidi. (casasayab.com)
  • On the other hand, the Polisario Front, supported by Algeria, advocates for the self-determination of Western Sahara, opposing Morocco's claim to the territory. (casasayab.com)
  • Morocco's King Mohammed VI announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially recognized Rabat's sovereignty over the disputed Western Saharan region. (aapeaceinstitute.org)
  • I welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement on the recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara," Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen confirmed. (aapeaceinstitute.org)
  • According to a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government has decided to "recognize Morocco's sovereignty" over the contentious Western Sahara territory, the royal office in Rabat stated on Monday, July 17. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • In fact, the US had agreed to recognise Morocco's sovereignty in Western Sahara in exchange for Rabat's normalization of ties with Israel. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • It came in return for an American recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, something Algeria said "has no legal effect because it contradicts UN resolutions. (presstv.ir)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • As Spain prepared to withdraw from its colonial territory in 1975, Morocco stepped in and occupied most of the Western Sahara. (hrw.org)
  • It will no doubt embolden other governments with expansionist agendas, such as Morocco, which has occupied much of Western Sahara since 1975. (progressive.org)
  • The Polisario Front has long fought for the independence of Western Sahara, a desert region bigger than Britain which was a Spanish colony until 1975. (squidsaccess.com)
  • Since the Madrid Accords of 1975, a part of Western Sahara has been administered by Morocco as the Southern Provinces . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • U ntil 1975 , Western Sahara was a Spanish colony. (theleftberlin.com)
  • For 27 years, Minurso (the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) and a series of UN envoys for Western Sahara have tried to broker a settlement on the territory dividing Morocco and the Polisario Front ever since Spain withdrew from the North African desert region in 1975. (passblue.com)
  • The conflict has deep historical roots, dating back to the Madrid Accords of November 1975, which allocated two-thirds of Western Sahara to Morocco and one-third to Mauritania. (casasayab.com)
  • The conflict between Morocco and the indigenous people of Saharawi, who are demanding the independence of Western Sahara, has lasted for almost fifty years: the Western Sahara conflict began in fact in 1975, when the former colonial authority of Spain withdrew from the region. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • Morocco annexed Western Sahara in 1975 and considers it as its "southern provinces. (thenews.mx)
  • 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)
  • Others point out that if the demonstrators I saw at the parliament had been Islamic radicals or Western Saharan guerrilla leaders, rather than trade unionists, the police might not have been quite so blasé. (enterrasolutions.com)
  • The distinction between North Africa and much of Sub-Saharan Africa is historically and ecologically significant because of the effective barrier created by the Sahara Desert for much of modern history. (gob.es)
  • The Western Saharan narrative is also about resistance. (passblue.com)
  • The idea for an economic union of the Maghreb began with the independence of Tunisia and Morocco in 1956. (wikipedia.org)
  • Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony south of Morocco that was "reintegrated" by the kingdom of Morocco, has declared independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • As far as bilateral attempts are concerned, very little has been achieved, as Morocco continues to refuse any concessions that would allow the independence of Western Sahara, while Algeria maintains its support for the self-determination of the Sahrawis. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1 The referendum would ask Sahrawis to choose between independence or integration into Morocco. (hrw.org)
  • Algeria and Morocco, its most populous neighbour, have had bad relations for decades, with Algiers backing the armed Polisario movement that seeks independence for Western Sahara, a territory Rabat sees as its own. (aljazeera.com)
  • The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence in Spain has angered Morocco, on Tuesday denied allegations of torture and genocide while being questioned by a Spanish judge. (squidsaccess.com)
  • Morocco is willing to offer it autonomy within Morocco but not independence. (squidsaccess.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The foreign ministers of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario Front - the political party representing the indigenous people of Western Sahara, who seek independence from Morocco - are invited to the Dec. 5-6 gathering. (passblue.com)
  • While Mauritania left the conflict, the Polisario continued to battle Morocco until a cease-fire was reached by the UN in 1991, accompanied by the promise of the territory holding a referendum on independence that has never materialized. (passblue.com)
  • MADRID - A high-ranking member of the Polisario Front seeking independence for Western Sahara warned Tuesday that war is possible for the disputed territory annexed by Morocco if the U.N. Security Council fails to set a self-determination referendum timetable. (thenews.mx)
  • Sayed downplayed speculation that Algerian support for Western Sahara independence could wane if the health of longtime Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika deteriorates. (thenews.mx)
  • 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)
  • In the article, which never mentioned the organization that sued him, Lmrabet referred to the Saharawi people living in camps in the Algerian city of Tindouf as refugees, contradicting the Moroccan government's position that they are prisoners of the independence movement Polisario Front. (cpj.org)
  • Moreover, traditional rivalries between Morocco and Algeria, and the unsolved question of Western Sahara's sovereignty, have blocked union meetings since the early 1990s despite several attempts to re-launch the political process. (wikipedia.org)
  • Along with the State Department's decision to no longer refer to the West Bank as occupied territory, the Golan decision may also serve as precedent to recognize Israeli sovereignty over much of the Palestinian territory seized in the 1967 war. (progressive.org)
  • 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)
  • The UN recognizes neither Moroccan [5] nor SADR sovereignty over Western Sahara. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • 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)
  • The North African monarch said that Netanyahu sent an official letter announcing the State of Israel's decision to "recognize the sovereignty of Morocco over the territory of Western Sahara. (aapeaceinstitute.org)
  • Rabat controls nearly 80% of Western Sahara and exerts its sovereignty over it as its territory, meaning it also claims all of Western Sahara's resources. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • In reality, by denying the Saharawis' political sovereignty over the Western Sahara, Morocco is also denying sovereignty over its natural resources, which Rabat considers to be its own. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • The situation is now evolving and is likely that the international community will not engage in claiming the sovereignty of Western Sahara, while, on the other hand, regional geopolitics and economic and strategic interests are reinforced. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • In Europe, where the Algerian regime has mobilized an armada of lobbyists to defend its interests and the separatist thesis of its protégé, the Polisario, Morocco has scored points in its struggle for its territorial integrity and sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory. (polisario-thinktwice.org)
  • During a press conference last week, Polisario invited the Union to conversations on continuation of fisheries offshore Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • In 1988, both Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to a United Nations (U.N.) Settlement Plan (the "Settlement Plan. (hrw.org)
  • Drawing attention to the historical struggle of the Sahrawi people, Dr M'membe explained, "The Polisario Front, founded in 1973, has fought for the self-determination and liberation of Western Sahara. (lusakatimes.com)
  • The Free Zone or Liberated Territories is a term used by the Polisario Front to describe the part of Western Sahara that lies to the east of the Moroccan Berm (the Moroccan border wall) and west and north of the borders with Algeria and Mauritania , respectively. (wn.com)
  • The zone was established as a Polisario-held zone in a 1991 cease-fire between the Polisario Front and Morocco, which had been agreed upon together as part of the Settlement Plan . (wn.com)
  • The status of Western Sahara is hotly disputed between Polisario and Morocco, and this includes the titles used to refer to areas under the control of the different sides. (wn.com)
  • Morocco controls 80 percent of the territory, while the rest - an area bordering Mauritania that is almost totally landlocked - is run by the Polisario Front. (squidsaccess.com)
  • Hostilities resumed last November when the Polisario declared the ceasefire to be over after Morocco sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone to reopen a key road. (squidsaccess.com)
  • 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)
  • In November 2020, fighting flared up between Morocco and the Polisario Front. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Morocco accuses Algeria of backing the Polisario Front militarily and financially - which is why the country insisted that a representative from Algiers, the capital, participate in the meeting. (passblue.com)
  • Upon signing the agreement, then-U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to engage in negotiations with the Polisario Front and "all regional actors," indirectly referring to Algeria , a supporter of the Front's demands. (fanack.com)
  • This action sparked a long-lasting dispute between Morocco and the Saharawi's people, supported by the Polisario Front , a militant organization and political movement active in order to achieve the realization of the right of the Saharawi's people to self-determination. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • Bachir Mustafa Sayed, a high-ranking member of the Polisario Front wears a badge with the Western Sahara flag and a message reading 'Sahara will win' before a news conference in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (thenews.mx)
  • 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 people of Western Sahara have not consented to the deal through their UN-recognised representation, the Polisario Front. (businessreviewafrika.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)
  • The conflict over the Western Sahara has defied resolution for over twenty years. (hrw.org)
  • Morocco continued its policy of stifling the press, especially on issues relating to the King, the royal family, Islam, or the Western Sahara conflict. (cihrs.org)
  • A new UN envoy is taking a stab at ending the frozen conflict over the status of the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara territory of the indigenous Sahrawi people, prodded by the United States. (passblue.com)
  • Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara since last year, is bringing the parties to the longstanding conflict over that region to a roundtable meeting in Geneva soon. (passblue.com)
  • So their narrative is that Western Sahara is an external conflict between Algeria and Morocco rather than one in which the local/indigenous people of the territory have resisted a Moroccan invasion/colonial occupation. (passblue.com)
  • Around the same time, International Crisis Group added Western Sahara to its list of Africa conflict hotspots. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • In a more recent post, entitled The Emergence of North Africa , I noted that Morocco was attracting significant foreign direct investment. (enterrasolutions.com)
  • North Africa also includes a number of Spanish possessions (Ceuta and Melilla and tiny Spanish islets off the coast of Morocco). (gob.es)
  • Despite a perception of the transnationalization of terrorist movements in North Africa under al-Qa'ida's banner, robust evidence of an effective al-Qa'ida's expansion in the Maghreb and the Sahara/Sahel region remains elusive at best. (humansecuritygateway.com)
  • Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . (explained.today)
  • The relations between the megaliths of Morocco may not be directly related to those in the rest of North Africa, and may be related to those in Spain. (atlantipedia.ie)
  • It was not until thirty years later, though, that five Maghreb states-Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia-met for the first Maghreb summit in 1988. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's also the biggest city in the Maghreb-the name for the collective five North African countries, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania as well as the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. (trekkertracks.info)
  • [15] Centuries of Arab migration to the Maghreb since the 7th century shifted the demographic scope of Morocco. (explained.today)
  • The plan, which the Security Council approved on April 29, 1991, called for a referendum, to be organized and conducted by the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO). (hrw.org)
  • They include 192 of the 193 member states of the United Nations as of 2020, plus six territories - Kosovo, Hong Kong, Macao, the Palestinian territories, Taiwan and Western Sahara. (pewresearch.org)
  • On December 22, 2020, Morocco signed a tripartite agreement with Israel and the United States to normalize Moroccan-Israeli relations. (fanack.com)
  • Israel should move towards a recognition of the Moroccan Sahara, just as our closest ally, the United States, did by signing the Abraham Accords," Ohana continued, referring to the American recognition in 2020. (aapeaceinstitute.org)
  • Israel and Morocco established diplomatic relations in December 2020, with an agreement that followed the US-backed Abraham Accords. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • In December 2020, Morocco became the fourth Arab country, after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, to announce that it had agreed to forge formal diplomatic ties with the Tel Aviv regime. (presstv.ir)
  • The data is collected by arranged interviews with focus groups consisting of university students in Rabat, Morocco, in order to investigate the trends and the extent of the occurrence of French in speech situations where intra- sentential code-switching between colloquial Moroccan Arabic and French is present. (lu.se)
  • Juhl hopes that Denmark will take up the vacant leadership role in defending Western Sahara's interests in the EU. (euobserver.com)
  • The UN's proposal was rejected by Morocco and accepted by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • Rather, our purpose was to investigate allegations that the voter identification process is not being carried out in an impartial and transparent manner and that conditions in the Western Sahara are not conducive to holding a free and fair referendum, as required by the Settlement Plan and agreed to by the parties. (hrw.org)
  • 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)
  • The U.N. has already been present in the Western Sahara for four years without being able to exercise the "sole and exclusive responsibility" over the referendum that it was to have assumed under the Settlement Plan. (hrw.org)
  • The other narrative of Morocco is that the referendum for the Sahrawis is dead. (passblue.com)
  • The Spanish company today, yet again, refers to the territory as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • While authorities often tolerated protest demonstrations, in Western Sahara, they systematically prevented gatherings supporting self-determination for the contested territory. (hrw.org)
  • The area is separated from the rest of the Western Sahara territory by "a 2,200 kilometer [1,367 mi]-long wall. (wn.com)
  • 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)
  • Sahrawis are indigenous to the territory of Western Sahara, A frica 's last colony. (theleftberlin.com)
  • The territory is bordered by Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and the Atlantic Ocean. (passblue.com)
  • Western Sahara is a disputed territory, but Morocco asserts control over the region, referring to it as its "southern provinces," going back to before Spain established the region as a colony in 1884. (casasayab.com)
  • Morocco is in fact exploiting the two primary resources of this territory -phosphate and fisheries-, using them for its economic and political objectives. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • Morocco also claims Ceuta and Melilla , making up about 22.8km2 more claimed territory. (explained.today)
  • 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)
  • Last week, Freedom House qualified Western Sahara as the world's most unfree territory in its annual Freedom in the World report. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • Yesterday, leading human rights NGO Human Rights Watch launched a direct appeal to all Members of the European Parliament, requesting them to refer the agreement to the EU Court of Justice over serious concerns about the compatibility with international humanitarian law of applying it to an occupied territory. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • He hinted quite clearly at the recognition, saying "I truly support the integrity of Morocco and the Moroccan Sahara. (aapeaceinstitute.org)
  • Several attempts have been made, notably by the United Nations, to resolve the Western Sahara issue. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco granted temporary legal status to United Nations-recognized asylum-seekers and thousands of economic migrants, pending an overhaul of its laws on asylum and foreigners on Moroccan soil. (hrw.org)
  • Morocco submitted a plan to the United Nations in April 2007, responding to Security Council calls for a "definitive political solution" to the dispute. (casasayab.com)
  • For their part, the United Nations and the states most interested in Western Sahara have remained silent. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • Moroccan Ambassador to Korea Chafik Rachadi referred Jeju as a successful example of administrative autonomy playing a crucial role in regional development, at the symposium, held under the theme, "Autonomy as a Relay for Development: A Comparative Approach. (casasayab.com)
  • Morocco expelled most of the mission last month and has proposed autonomy for Western Sahara. (thenews.mx)
  • During his first official meeting with the Moroccan monarch, President Barack Obama had clearly reiterated his country's support to the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara that he described again as "serious, realistic and credible. (polisario-thinktwice.org)
  • After sixteen years of war, a cease-fire formally took effect in the Western Sahara in September 1991. (hrw.org)
  • 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)
  • Algeria does not recognise Israel, referring to it in official statements only as the Zionist entity. (aljazeera.com)
  • Part of the broader "Abraham Accords" initiative spearheaded by former U.S. President Donald Trump, this agreement sought to normalize Israel's relations with Bahrain , the United Arab Emirates , Sudan and Morocco. (fanack.com)
  • Unlike the other Abraham Accords, Morocco pursued a tripartite agreement involving the United States alongside Israel. (fanack.com)
  • In February last year, the EU Court of Justice had ruled the practice of applying the EU's Fisheries Agreement with Morocco to the waters of Western Sahara to be in violation of international law, in particular of the principle of self-determination. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • In August 1995, Human Rights Watch conducted a fact-finding mission to Tindouf, Algeria and to Laayoune, the capital of the Western Sahara. (hrw.org)
  • From there, we continued our drive south to the biggest city in Western Sahara, Laayoune - also referred to as SADR's capital city. (theleftberlin.com)
  • In mid-2003, the UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy, James Baker, proposed a settlement plan, also referred to as the Baker Plan II. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco relied on American pressure to ease Algeria's stance on this issue, which had long strained Moroccan-Algerian relations. (fanack.com)
  • The Algerian diplomatic machine has suffered many setbacks in 2013 in the territorial dispute opposing Algeria to Morocco about the Western Sahara. (polisario-thinktwice.org)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • M.P. Courville has proposed that Atlantis was a Phoenician colony situated on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. (atlantipedia.ie)
  • In a similar manner, Thomas Dietrich in The Origin of Culture [ 217 ] considers Morocco an Atlantean colony. (atlantipedia.ie)
  • A hearing in the EU Parliament indicates that there are many questions, and still few answers, on the EU's response to the EU Court ruling annulling bilateral agreements with Morocco over the inclusion of occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • According to Yuval Steinitz, former chairman of Israel's Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Egyptian Air Force has approximately the same number of modern warplanes as the Israeli Air Force and significantly more western tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft batteries, and warships than the Israel Defense Forces. (naijaquest.com)
  • Consequently, Morocco swiftly initiated an Israeli-Moroccan economic forum to foster collaboration between Moroccan entrepreneurs and Israeli investors and explore partnership opportunities. (fanack.com)
  • Simultaneously, Morocco placed its bets on advanced Israeli military technologies, particularly in the fields of security, intelligence, air defense and drones. (fanack.com)
  • Referring to the 11-day Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza last month, Haniyeh said, "On behalf of the Muslim Ummah, the Palestinian nation stood against the arrogance of the Zionist regime. (presstv.ir)
  • This followed the diplomatic tensions between Algeria and other members, especially Morocco and Libya, whose leaders continuously refused to attend AMU meetings held in Algiers. (wikipedia.org)
  • While Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt are more frequently referenced in discussions about the 2011 Arab uprisings and their aftermath, Baraka stressed that the political and social changes in Morocco should not be overlooked. (brookings.edu)
  • Morocco expelled most U.N. civilian staff last month after Ban used the word "occupation" to refer to the situation in the region following a visit to a camp for Western Sahara refugees in Algeria. (thenews.mx)
  • This has now been overshadowed by a 2017 report (c) that the remains of early relatives of homo sapiens had been discovered in Morocco and dated to between 300,000 and 350,000 years ago. (atlantipedia.ie)
  • Saharawis in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrated as a cargo vessel is arriving to pick up more controversial windmill components for occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • In the morrow of the adoption of the new EU-Morocco fisheries agreement covering the Moroccan southern provinces waters, the European Parliament declined on December 11, to include in the EU 2012 annual report on human rights and democracy in the world, an amendment on the establishment of an international mechanism to monitor human rights in Western Sahara. (polisario-thinktwice.org)
  • European Parliament disregards Court and adopts Morocco fish deal European Parliament has just now voted in favour of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement that will be applied to the waters of occupied Western Sahara. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • Baraka spoke extensively about the Southern Provinces, the term the Moroccan government uses to refer to the disputed Western Sahara, as a pilot for development across the country. (brookings.edu)
  • 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)
  • Moroccan settlers currently make up more than two thirds of the 500,000 inhabitants of Western Sahara . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Herodotus referred to its inhabitants as Atalantes . (atlantipedia.ie)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • 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)
  • Like other Arab nations, Morocco pursued multiple objectives through the normalization agreement with Israel which included enhancing its military capabilities, addressing the Western Sahara dispute and attracting foreign investments . (fanack.com)
  • 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)
  • Morocco sees the Palestinian issue in the same position as Western Sahara. (presstv.ir)
  • Haniyeh's visit to Morocco "comes within the framework of relations between Morocco and Palestine and contributes to the support of the Palestinian cause," according to Slimane el-Amrani, assistant secretary general of the PJD. (presstv.ir)
  • King Mohammed VI said two years ago that "[Western] Sahara will remain a part of Morocco until the end of time. (euobserver.com)
  • Where does Morocco stand today, five years after the Arab uprisings? (brookings.edu)
  • However, as we assess the situation three years after the initiation of the normalization process, it is clear Morocco has yet to see its intended outcomes, as opposed to Israel, which successfully realized its goals in this trajectory. (fanack.com)
  • 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)
  • A few years earlier a prehistoric city, dated to 13000 BC, was discovered in Western Sahara controlled by Morocco (f) . (atlantipedia.ie)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • In a move that surprised no one, the EU Council has appealed the recent EU Court of Justice stopping EU trade and fisheries in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Italian company Enel is one of the firms that have taken the exact same approach as the EU when carrying out 'stakeholder consultations' in Western Sahara - a procedure now found invalid by the EU Court of Justice. (wsrw.org)
  • Today, the EU Court of Justice has struck a blow to the EU's practice of applying trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco to occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The EU Court of Justice will rule on the Union's trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco in occupied Western Sahara on 29 September. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • As expected, the Council of the EU has appealed the ruling of the EU General Court annulling the application of EU-Morocco deals in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Nizar Baraka-President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Morocco and the chair of the Economic Working Group of the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue-provided a snapshot at a Center for Middle East Policy discussion on February 3. (brookings.edu)
  • The UN mission in Western Sahara - and Koehler - are being pressured to resolve the outstanding issues of the region by the United States, which holds the primary decision-making role over the mission in the Security Council. (passblue.com)
  • If, on one hand, the resources of Western Sahara are the objective of trade deals with the European Union , enriching the African monarchy, the activity is being pursued in order to better serve an ostensible annexation project, and to generate acceptance of territorial acquisition in the organized international community. (thenewglobalorder.com)
  • He stated, "It's very sad and humiliating that Mr Hichilema has decided to make our country a puppet and agent of imperialism against the subjugated, humiliated, and struggling courageous people of Western Sahara. (lusakatimes.com)
  • Such an incomplete process of decolonisation also means that many Western anarchist movements and the dominant anarchist discourse remain overwhelmingly white and exclude people of colour. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The uprising is also compellingly imposing the need for serious, far-reaching reforms in several states, particularly Morocco, Bahrain, and Algeria, and is having repercussions in Syria, where people are living under a tyrannical regime that barely permits its citizens to breathe. (cihrs.org)
  • For the American President, the Moroccan proposal for the final settlement of this issue "represents a potential approach that can satisfy the aspirations of the people in the Western Sahara to run their own affairs in peace and dignity. (polisario-thinktwice.org)
  • In the last few days, there has been a lot of attention to the plight of the people of Western Sahara. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • Morocco further pressed for provisions that bound the United States to support economic development and investment in the Western Sahara, culminating in the establishment of an American consulate to reinforce the authority of the Moroccan government in the region. (fanack.com)
  • Additionally, Morocco aimed to leverage the normalization agreement to attract investments from Moroccan Jews in Israel and around the world, particularly in sectors related to food security, scientific research, communications and water resources. (fanack.com)
  • The presidency said MAK "gets support and help from foreign parties, particularly Morocco and the Zionist entity", referring to Israel. (aljazeera.com)
  • The Ambassador underscored the importance of a public statement by the Government of Morocco (GOM) in support of the USG's important step and for its willingness to reach out to Iran in combination with members of the European Union. (jcvignoli.com)
  • 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)
  • Note: Benaissa may have been referring to the Justice and Charity Organization (JCO). (jcvignoli.com)
  • He was probably not referring to the Justice and Development Party (PJD),as he usually names the party. (jcvignoli.com)
  • Morocco enacted laws in 2016 that advanced free expression and the rights of domestic workers, victims of human trafficking, and person with disabilities. (hrw.org)
  • 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)
  • for example, Equatorial Guinea (formerly Spanish Guinea), Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara), and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). (cdc.gov)
  • In the early afternoon of 12 February, the European Parliament gave its consent to a new Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) with Morocco - one that will be carried out primarily outside of the internationally recognised borders of Morocco: in occupied Western Sahara. (businessreviewafrika.com)
  • One of the investigations relates to allegations of torture at Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, a town in western Algeria. (squidsaccess.com)
  • The Union has been unable to achieve tangible progress on its goals due to deep economic and political disagreements between Morocco and Algeria regarding, among others, the issue of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Authorities require but often refuse to issue permits for foreign broadcast media to film in Morocco. (hrw.org)
  • In this context, Morocco sought American backing to advance the Western Sahara issue based on its vision, in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel. (fanack.com)