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The US government's approval of Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara came in exchange for its normalization of diplomatic relations with Israel on the same day. (atlasofwars.com)
Find here a complete overview of MEP candidates who have supported the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara in previous controversial votes. (wsrw.org)
Emmaus' focus was to present their project for increased visibility of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (utblick.org)

The North African neighbours have been locked in a bitter rivalry for decades over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which was a Spanish colony until 1975. (mailerlite.com)
The territory was ceded to Morocco and Mauritania after the exit of Spain as a colonial power in 1975. (popularresistance.org)
Former colonizer of the territory, Spain, which had handed over the territory of Western Sahara to the invading Moroccan forces in 1975, once again in March 2022 rescinded recognition of SADR and accepted Morocco's claim of sovereignty over the territory. (atlasofwars.com)
Ms. Finér explained that while the occupation of Western Sahara has been ongoing since 1975, it receives very little international attention. (utblick.org)
8 On 16 October 1975, the International Court of Justice handed down the Advisory Opinion requested (Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports 1975, p. 12). (wsrw.org)
Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
Not to mention the State Department has expressed openness and sympathy to leaving West Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty, and Morocco got that by invading and conquering in 1975 and that wasn't a defensive war, like the Six Day War. (blogspot.com)

The letter endorses Rabat's position on Western Sahara, describing Morocco's 2007 proposal for Sahrawi autonomy - which would integrate the territory into Morocco - as 'the most serious, realistic, and credible' basis for resolving the conflict. (popularresistance.org)
Spain is now the strongest European supporter of Morocco's autonomy plan - even in comparison to France, a close ally of Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
But America is still recognizing the coup leader in Venezuela, is silent on Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara, is continuing Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capitol while accepting the importance of Israel's hold on the Golan Heights and is only cautiously correcting course on Cuba. (antiwar.com)
Since Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the endorsement of Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara has been reiterated. (atlasofwars.com)
Morocco's 'Lions of the Atlas' will face former colonial power France on Wednesday. (enca.com)
Morocco's "Lions of the Atlas", who beat Portugal on Saturday to reach the final four, will face former colonial power France on Wednesday. (enca.com)
Given that the Polisario Front enjoys a degree of support from Algeria and South Africa, Morocco's bilateral relations with these countries are likely to deteriorate somewhat, potentially affecting its goals of developing deeper economic and political ties with Sub-Saharan Africa. (fitchsolutions.com)

Algeria and China have traditionally strong relations, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2018. (wikipedia.org)
Algeria-China relations have played an important role amidst the backdrop of Algeria's turbulent 20th century history. (wikipedia.org)
After Algeria gained independence in 1962, China continued to 'fill the void' left by Western nations. (wikipedia.org)
In the 1970s, the influential role of China in the North Africa region became apparent when China stepped in to mediate small-scale disputes between Algeria and regional competitor Morocco which threatened to disrupt the stability of the region. (wikipedia.org)
Some Western pundits and lawmakers in Washington accuse Algeria of backing Russia in this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
Although Algiers and Moscow maintain a robust Cold War-era partnership, Algeria has not aligned with Russia and the two countries do not see eye-to-eye on the conflict. (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)
Mark Leonard speaks with Andrew Lebovich, Anthony Dworkin and Chloe Teevan, about what the demonstrators want, and EU-Algeria relations. (ecfr.eu)
In 2022, 38 countries had a negative trade balance in agricultural products, with Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Angola leading the ranking with more than $3bn lost over the year. (tralac.org)
When they cannot compensate through other exports - such as oil in the case of Nigeria, Angola, and Algeria - countries become extremely vulnerable to external shocks. (tralac.org)
Most critical is Spain's proximity to Algeria, a country with substantial natural gas reserves. (foreignpolicy.com)
The contract will not radically change the military balance between Morocco and Algeria but has been signed just as hostilities are resuming against Polisario in Western Sahara. (africaintelligence.com)
Mohammed VI's army is about to place a second order for armed Bayraktar TB2 drones manufactured by Turkey's Baykar as tensions mount with Western Sahara and neighbouring Algeria. (africaintelligence.com)
With diplomatic relations with Algeria suspended since August, Morocco has been going ahead with changes to the arrangements for protecting the very strategic border with its neighbour, in part by conducting large-scale mine-clearing operations in order to recover farmable land. (africaintelligence.com)
A France-based association of friends of the Saharawi Arab Republic (the disputed territory of Western Sahara) is preparing to send a delegation to camps in Algeria to meet refugees and Polisario front leaders. (africaintelligence.com)
Furthermore, Emmaus is arranging a trip to Western Sahara, where participants will be guided around the area and visit refugee camps in Algeria. (utblick.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)
Algeria accused its neighbour Morocco of killing three people in an attack on the edge of the contested territory of Western Sahara on April 12. (vifdatabase.com)

The two countries broke off relations in 2021. (mailerlite.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)
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)
Further, under the current power-sharing arrangement, Netanyahu is due to cede the premiership to Gantz in November 2021, meaning the PM could collapse the government closer to this date, at a more politically advantageous time. (fitchsolutions.com)
The ceasefire in Libya and subsequent pledge to form a transitional government and hold national elections in December 2021 raised hopes of ending the ongoing civil war in the country. (fitchsolutions.com)

China was the first non-Arab country to recognise the FLN as Algerian provisional government in December 1958. (wikipedia.org)
The unwavering support of China continued as it was the first country to recognise the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) a few weeks after its proclamation in September 1958. (wikipedia.org)
Algerian president says relations with Morocco reach point of no return. (mailerlite.com)
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)
The Western Sahara issue is always central to Algerian foreign policy decision-making. (thefrontierpost.com)
Yet, this hasn't harmed Algerian-Russian relations. (thefrontierpost.com)
The Algerian government explicitly outlaws private enterprises by military personnel who are actively serving in the armed forces. (ti-defence.org)

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)
As I have already said, Russia can well fill in the gap left by the withdrawal of the Ukrainian grain from the global market, either by selling its grain or by transferring it for free to the neediest countries in Africa, especially considering that this year we once again expect to have a record-high harvest. (tralac.org)
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)
Africa Intelligence brings you exclusive coverage of the major political, economic and diplomatic issues at stake on the African continent, identifying power players on the rise and low-frequency signals on the horizon. (africaintelligence.com)
Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in Africa. (africaintelligence.com)
The UK government should now use this judgement as a basis to strongly support the UN supervised process of self-determination so the process of decolonisation in Africa is complete. (wsrw.org)
Israel was one of the few countries that continued to support apartheid South Africa when most of the international community had instituted its boycott. (greenleft.org.au)
Tunisian sociologist Mohamed Jouili said the support for Morocco across North Africa was partly due to a shared history of French colonialism. (enca.com)
Morocco World News brings you the latest news about business, education, Western Sahara, culture and tourism in Morocco, Current Events in North Africa. (enjoytrulli.eu)
Welcome to Africa Now, your weekly newsletter for Africa, presenting the most important developments in the continent - news that matters. (vifdatabase.com)
Commentary on the news, culture, sports and current events of sub-Saharan Africa from someone who's lived there. (blogspot.com)
And it's also unlikely that Thabo Mbeki, president of regional power South Africa, will soon cease his role as head of Mugabe's apologist brigade. (blogspot.com)

Although there are 55 African countries which are members of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations, the phenomenon of neo-colonialism has hampered genuine liberation and continental unification. (popularresistance.org)
The Western Sahara is the only country which has not been declared independent within the AU, whose predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) after contentious debate, has advocated for the total liberation of the Western Sahara for nearly four decades. (popularresistance.org)
Morocco, Western Sahara - M oroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under repeated bombardment by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) . (atlasofwars.com)
For nearly a year, his government had been at war with rebels from the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which was now pushing south from its stronghold near the Eritrean border and threatening to move on the country's capital of Addis Ababa. (juancole.com)
After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the 'liberation' of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. (wsrw.org)
Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)

After the June 3, 2023, shooting of three Israeli soldiers on the Israel-Egypt border by an Egyptian border guard, the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida wrote in an editorial that the attack proved that peace and normalization agreements with Israel have not caused the Arab masses to forget their hatred for that country. (dailyalert.org)
All contents (c) 2023, Graham Digital Holding Company. (foreignpolicy.com)

Formerly known as the "Spanish Sahara", the people of the territory have been demanding national independence for decades. (popularresistance.org)
The most progressive states within the AU have supported the SADR in their struggle to win independence from Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
2 On 14 December 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation ('the UN') adopted Resolution 1514 (XV) on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. (wsrw.org)
Morocco withdrew its ambassador from Tunis in August after Tunisian President Kais Saied welcomed the head of the Polisario Front, which seeks independence for the Western Sahara. (enca.com)
The escalation of tensions between Morocco and the Polisario Front - the Western Sahara independence movement - reportedly led to a limited military confrontation in November. (fitchsolutions.com)

That year can be pinpointed as the moment America struggled over the question of being a former colony - with a memory and a conscience - and respecting other nation's sovereignty, or becoming an expansionist power - throwing of conscience - and engaging in colonialism and coups. (antiwar.com)
On December 10, 2020, the Donald Trump administration in the US announced that "the United States recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory. (atlasofwars.com)
In early 2016, the case was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which in 2018 concluded that Morocco has no sovereignty over or any international mandate to administer 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)
Then came normalization between Morocco and Israel, at the expense of U.S. recognition of Moroccan claims to Western Sahara. (nationofchange.org)

While relations are firmly grounded in commercial ties, diplomatic relations have notably extended into socio-cultural and political spheres. (wikipedia.org)
Russia is not the only country irresponsibly offering diplomatic stamps of approval. (foreignpolicy.com)
However, in recent decades, other power brokers have applied diplomatic recognition norms chaotically and manipulatively as well, in ways that undermine the meaning of the act-and the international system. (foreignpolicy.com)
TUNIS - His country is in diplomatic crisis with Morocco, but that's not stopping Tunisian Wissam Sultani supporting the first ever Arab or African team to reach a football World Cup semi-final. (enca.com)
Sultani is one of many Tunisians supporting the team -- with little regard for a diplomatic stand-off between their two governments over the disputed Western Sahara territory. (enca.com)

Western Sahara, disputed between Morocco and the Saharawi people's Polisario Front, is listed among the UN's non-self-governing territories. (time.com)
It separates the areas occupied by Morocco on the coast-side from the inland territory that is under the control of the Polisario Front (PF), recognized by the UN General Assembly as the Sahrawi people's international representative. (atlasofwars.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)
Morocco wants to sign a deal but it has a problem caused by the sometimes rebellious Polisario Front which claims to represent the western Sahara region. (cmicholding.com)
This includes falling government stability in Israel and challenges to Moroccan long-term foreign policy goals, which could face some setbacks due to an escalation of tensions with the Polisario Front. (fitchsolutions.com)

Arab fans have also thrown their weight behind Morocco as its players have raised the Palestinian flag -- despite Rabat normalising relations with Israel in December 2020. (enca.com)
In Senegal, Rabat is often accused of abuses against African migrants who travel north through Morocco on the way to Europe. (enca.com)

As such, the European Union, when entering into agreements with Morocco, must respect the right of Saharawi people to self-determination. (wsrw.org)
Any agreement or partnership between the EU and Morocco cannot be applied to the territory of, or indeed impact on any other rights of, the Saharawi people of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
Only once the Saharawi people has expressed its inalienable right to self-determination, will the UK be able to trade legally in goods produced in the Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
No less than 93 Saharawi groups have called on the EU institutions to respect the will of the people of Western Sahara when negotiating trade or fisheries agreements that will affect their occupied land. (wsrw.org)
Effectively, human rights violations continue unhindered and the UN presence is useless for the Saharawi (Western Saharan) population. (utblick.org)

Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an "autonomous" region within the North African state. (popularresistance.org)
Mauritania relinquished its falsely designated authority over the Western Sahara, while the Kingdom of Morocco, one of the few remaining monarchies on the continent, has refused to allow the people of the territory to even conduct an internationally supervised and monitored election on the status of their own country. (popularresistance.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)

Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an attempt to strengthen relations between the Kingdom and the State of Israel. (popularresistance.org)

The ceasefire had been secured in August 1991 after the UN Security Council (UNSC) established the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) with the promise of fulfilling the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination. (atlasofwars.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)

The UN has been unable to ensure that Morocco holds a national referendum within the Western Sahara over the future of the territory. (popularresistance.org)
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)
However, backed by the US, UK, and the EU, Morocco successfully sabotaged the referendum promised by the UN, and MINURSO was reduced to a peace-keeping force. (atlasofwars.com)
6 On 20 August 1974, the Kingdom of Spain informed the UN that it proposed to organise a referendum in Western Sahara under UN auspices. (wsrw.org)
Furthermore, the UN General Assembly called upon the Kingdom of Spain, which it treated as the administering power, to postpone the referendum that it was planning to organise in Western Sahara until the General Assembly had decided on the policy to be pursued in order to accelerate the decolonisation process in the territory. (wsrw.org)

Syria's SANA state news agency reported Israeli strikes on Wednesday targeting multiple locations in Damascus including near its airport. (dailyalert.org)
But if it's true that Hamas had been planning this assault for one or even two years, then it's necessary to look at the other geopolitical conditions that have pushed Palestinian militants to act and the Israeli government, equally militant under Netanyahu's extremist reign, to wage war in return. (nationofchange.org)
When Israel refuses to cease colony building and Western states, including Australia, continue to fete Israeli "democracy", BDS becomes a logical and moral tactic. (greenleft.org.au)

Nonetheless, in response to the seating of the SADR by the OAU/AU, Morocco withdrew its membership from the continental organization. (popularresistance.org)

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)
However, while the British East India Company essentially functioned as an extension of Crown authority in India, prompting Edmund Burke to describe the British government as "a state in the guise of a merchant," today the reverse might be said of supranational technology companies. (time.com)
Bharti Airtel Limited (commonly shortened to Airtel and stylised airtel) is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New Delhi, India. (unionpedia.org)
India faces an electricity shortage because power companies failed to restock coal inventories. (cmicholding.com)

It is as legitimate to target Western security firms that assist Israel in the West Bank as boycotting arms dealers who sell weapons to the brutal regimes of Egypt and Libya. (greenleft.org.au)
Egypt sent aid and logistical and humanitarian support to Sudan as the two countries stress the need to continue consultations and mutual coordination on Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam. (vifdatabase.com)

Vowing that his 'government is here to protect the people, not the bourgeoisie or the rich,' Chavez nationalized his country's oil, electricity, telecommunications and steel industries and ensured that the profits from Venezuela's resources went towards improving the lives of Venezuela's people. (antiwar.com)
The difficulties facing Lebanese Prime Minister-nominate Saad Hariri in forming Lebanon's next government indicate that the country's main political factions continue to jostle for cabinet posts. (fitchsolutions.com)

Spain's stance on the matter is especially important, as the country was Western Sahara's colonial ruler until 1976 . (foreignpolicy.com)

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)
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)
Russia's war against Ukraine and the ongoing power struggle in Sudan have derailed Moscow's efforts to establish a naval port in Sudan. (aberfoylesecurity.com)

Goods and products produced in West Sahara should not to be treated as originating in Morocco for the purposes of preferential tariffs or any other benefits conferred upon Moroccan products by the Association Agreement. (wsrw.org)

On 25 March 2019, the UK High Court of Justice has handed down its judgment in the case brought forward by Western Sahara Campaign UK against two governmental agencies for acting unlawfully in relation to the territory of Western Sahara through EU-Morocco bilateral agreements. (wsrw.org)
Further there will be a declaration that HMRC erred in law in not exercising its power to investigate and query the stated place of origin of products originating in Western Sahara and imported into the UK under the country code 'MA' in EUR.1 certificates", paragraph 12 of the judgment reads. (wsrw.org)

This thesis concluded that the judgments in this case contributed to the expansion of influence of fundamental rights in European external relations through judicial activism by the CJEU. (lu.se)

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)
Algiers public servant Salim said Moroccans and Algerians "ignore political differences" between their governments. (enca.com)

7 By Resolution 3292 (XXIX) on the Question of the Spanish Sahara, adopted on 13 December 1974, the UN General Assembly decided to request the International Court of Justice for an Advisory Opinion on whether Western Sahara (Rio de Oro and Sakiet El Hamra) was, at the time of its colonisation by the Kingdom of Spain, a territory belonging to no one (terra nullius). (wsrw.org)

But, because newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared over Egyptian state run TV yesterday that his decrees were now 'above the law,' igniting violent protests across the country against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, leaving the Obama-described 'disgusting and vile' anti-Islam video seriously paling in comparison. (noisyroom.net)

To make this alliance more secure, successive U.S. administrations have dreamed of ending the nearly 80-year-long conflict between Arab countries and the Zionist state. (nationofchange.org)
Recognising that sustainable peaceful relations cannot be reached with only half the population on-board, especially in regard to the vulnerable position of women and girls in armed conflicts, Resolution 1325 aims to improve the participation of women on all levels of conflict resolution. (utblick.org)

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)
And, of course, Google dominates the field of cartography, which, from the 17th to the mid-20th Century, was often a direct extension of sovereign power. (time.com)
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)
Palestine has been recognized as a state by more than 135 members of the United Nations and has held status in the body as a "nonmember observer state" since 2012 but has hardly any genuine sovereign powers. (foreignpolicy.com)
Morocco, which called Saied's act "hostile", sees the mineral-rich desert region as a sovereign part of its own territory. (enca.com)

Not only are the European Union's links to Russian gas too strong-gas exports from Russia account for around 40 percent of the EU's supply - but many countries also lack LNG regasification terminals, the infrastructure necessary to store and convert LNG back into its gaseous state. (foreignpolicy.com)
Other than Russia, there are few nearby countries able to fill the EU's energy gap. (foreignpolicy.com)
For the European Union, most of the phosphorus needed for the country is imported from Russia as it has the world's largest ultra-pure phosphate rock deposits. (mddionline.com)
141 countries out of 193 voted in favour of the resolution criticising Russia during the summit. (vifdatabase.com)

Both the United Nations and the African Union (AU) has recognized the SADR as a government in waiting with a legitimate claim to represent the people of the de facto colony. (popularresistance.org)

A threat that could work for the people of the third world and that could provide an alternate pattern of government that countries could follow instead of following America. (antiwar.com)
And, given the true power to choose, their people will always choose to keep the wealth of their nation's resources in the hands of their nation. (antiwar.com)
Roldós warned all foreign oil companies that if their activities did not benefit the people of Ecuador, they would be forced out of Ecuador. (antiwar.com)
I have Buddha would engage it mere to tolerate many people of himself Powering found! (moclips.org)
The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.org)
News seeped out of towns like Alamata and Mlazat that the drones' missiles were killing not just suspected rebels but dozens of people, many of them civilians, as they rode buses or shopped in markets. (juancole.com)
In his first televised appearance since the earthquake struck, King Mohammed VI visited Marrakech - 72 km (45 miles) from the tremor's epicentre - to meet injured people at a hospital, where the state news agency said he donated blood. (iol.co.za)
More than 10,000 people were expected at the meetings, which the government wants to go ahead, sources said. (iol.co.za)
boundaries created by colonial powers to divide and conquer the Arab people also pitting clashing sub-cultures (e.g. (globalissues.org)
Are Africans' expectations THAT low that they admire so highly a guy who destroys his country, its people and its economy so thoroughly? (blogspot.com)

The French response to internal threats in North African countries has been to reinforce authoritarian rule to keep the peace. (ecfr.eu)
Oil undergirded the longstanding U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia, a regressive, authoritarian state that has nevertheless thumbed its nose at the United States by funding anti-Western extremism throughout the world. (nationofchange.org)
Sunnis and Shiites) together, held together (or dominated by) an authoritarian power. (globalissues.org)

U.S. officials have warned the Saudis and Emiratis that close security relations with China would hurt ties with Washington, but have largely not objected to business dealings. (dailyalert.org)

China's foreign policy continued to follow a similar style of passive support in the region, providing economic investment - filling the gaps as Western nations started pulling out of the unstable region - while avoiding military intervention. (wikipedia.org)
Non-commercial news needs your support. (democracynow.org)
The occupying power has received key gestures of support from Western powers since fighting resumed, which many argue has emboldened it even further. (atlasofwars.com)

US Secretary of State announced $150 million in new humanitarian aid for Africa's Sahel region during a visit to Niger, a country Washington views as an important ally in the fight against Islamist insurgencies. (mailerlite.com)

He noted that the "growing power" of Palestinian groups "is the key to bringing the Zionist enemy to its knees. (dailyalert.org)
When governments fail to arrest the illegal march of colonisation on Palestinian land, it is not enough to wait for futile peace negotiations that only lead to a more deeply entrenched occupation. (greenleft.org.au)

The government does not outlaw private enterprise under the umbrella of the state's defence and security operations. (ti-defence.org)

Emmaus, is a solidarity-based group working for sustainability and justice, and seeks to highlight the problems in Western Sahara, by drawing attention to the situation. (utblick.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)
The government took steps to investigate, prosecute, or punish public officials who committed violations, especially corruption. (state.gov)
Impunity for police and security officials remained a problem, but the government provided information on actions taken against officials accused of wrongdoing. (state.gov)
The constitution provides for freedom of speech and press, and independent media outlets regularly criticized and satirized government officials and policies, but the government on some occasions restricted these rights. (state.gov)
Neither the Turkish nor the Ethiopian governments responded to questions about the flights, but officials in Turkey have previously acknowledged drone sales to Ethiopia. (juancole.com)

After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 19 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist-Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of 1990. (wikipedia.org)
Three African teams -- Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal -- have made it to the quarter-finals since 1990, but Morocco is the first ever to reach the semis. (enca.com)

We now expect our government to enforce the judgement so that no goods can be illegally imported into the UK from the Western Sahara under the pretence that they are from Morocco. (wsrw.org)

As the weapon spreads across the globe, some U.S. lawmakers seek to crack down on the country, saying it's exploiting its NATO status to obtain key parts from Western manufacturers. (juancole.com)

The Political Information Bureau has on all Cas9, preventative, and zip powers to be the Maison Norman Bethune. (lsconsign.com)

Kérékou seized power in Dahomey in a military coup on 26 October 1972, [1] ending a system of government in which three members of a presidential council were to rotate power (earlier in the year Maga had handed over power to Justin Ahomadegbé ). (wikipedia.org)

While the United Nations had tried and failed to resolve these conflicts, some commentators argue that it was China's good relations with the two countries and growing economic investment in the region which allowed China's involvement to be successful. (wikipedia.org)
The countries of this region can't compete with France economically, militarily or geopolitically," Jouili said. (enca.com)
The largest deposits, around 50 billion tonnes, are in the Western Sahara region of Morocco. (mddionline.com)

The government openly operates unauthorised private enterprises. (ti-defence.org)

This recent proclamation by Spain is clearly a manifestation of the legacy of neo-colonialism, where even independent governments are subjected to the economic domination of the imperialist states. (popularresistance.org)

From military glitches to development hitches, discover our ongoing coverage of the power struggles shaping the African continent. (africaintelligence.com)

In 2010, relations were considered the strongest of all Arab-Chinese relations behind Sudanese-Chinese relations. (wikipedia.org)
Supporting an Arab country, whichever one, is a duty when it gets to this stage of a tournament," said Sultani, a 41-year-old greengrocer in Tunis, capital of the North African nation. (enca.com)
Morocco has accepted offers of aid from Spain, Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, but has not taken up offers of help from Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. (iol.co.za)

During the crisis, our government's said we had to "bail out" the banks that had colluded with the governments to create the crisis in the first place. (truthout.org)

A majority of African countries are losing billions of dollars of foreign exchange annually through food imports. (tralac.org)
Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)

The MDC lacks the power to block most ZANU-sponsored legislation, but it acts as a pro-democracy voice on the international scene, and as recent events have shown, it retains leverage through its ability to block constitutional amendments. (blogspot.com)

China and Iran also supplied drones, but the TB2, outfitted with cutting-edge technology, had fast become the new favorite of the world's embattled nations, helping to win wars even when it was pitted against major powers. (juancole.com)
3 In 1963, following the transmission of information by the Kingdom of Spain pursuant to Article 73(e) of the Charter of the United Nations, the UN added Western Sahara to its list of non-self-governing territories. (wsrw.org)

Moroccan forces currently occupy over 80% of SADR, also known as Western Sahara, which remains classified by the UN as among the last countries still awaiting decolonization. (atlasofwars.com)

This commentary is published by BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, and is not a comment on Fitch Ratings Credit Ratings. (fitchsolutions.com)

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