• Algiers believes it must continue buying Russian arms while feeling increasingly threatened by the situation in Western Sahara and Moroccan-Israeli normalization. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The Algerians are with the Moroccan team", he said, noting both North African nations were home to the Berber people. (enca.com)
  • The Trump administration as part of this so-called Abraham Accords bought off Morocco by supporting Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara," said Mr. Fletcher. (finalcall.com)
  • Additionally, media reports said the deal included an alleged $3 billion investment package for Moroccan banks, hotels and a renewable energy company owned by Morocco's King Mohammed VI, said the New York Times. (finalcall.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)
  • The UN recognizes neither Moroccan [5] nor SADR sovereignty over Western Sahara. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Moroccan settlers currently make up more than two thirds of the 500,000 inhabitants of Western Sahara . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • According to the Moroccan government, in 1958 the Moroccan Army of Liberation fought Spanish colonizers and almost liberated what was then Spanish Sahara. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Rescue teams organized by the Moroccan government began reaching remote villages in the Atlas Mountains yesterday, three days after the most devastating earthquake to strike the region in a century. (gzeromedia.com)
  • Initiated by the horse show association, the event includes notably the international model and gait show of Arab thoroughbreds, the Moroccan cup of Arab horses' breeders, the 2nd international barb horse championship and the Morocco Royal Tour final. (moroccanembassy.sa)
  • On 8 September 2023, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 Mw hit Marrakesh-Safi region of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • A woman reacts near the rubble of a building in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Talat N'yaaqoub, Morocco, September 11, 2023. (gzeromedia.com)
  • Tunisian sociologist Mohamed Jouili said the support for Morocco across North Africa was partly due to a shared history of French colonialism. (enca.com)
  • 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)
  • As President Joseph Biden has been reversing policies of his predecessor, questions are floating about what his administration will do concerning the issue of Western Sahara, a disputed territory in North West Africa where conflict has recently escalated into war. (finalcall.com)
  • Morocco possesses the "last colony in Africa" with its occupation of the Western Sahara, which it long claimed since 1957 as its southern province. (finalcall.com)
  • الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية ), is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa . (alamoana.net)
  • By land area, Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and the 28th-largest in the world, and 90% of its territory is situated in the Sahara . (alamoana.net)
  • historical Mauretania was considerably further north than modern Mauritania, as it was spread out along the entire western half of the Mediterranean coast of Africa. (alamoana.net)
  • After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the 'liberation' of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. (wsrw.org)
  • If the answer to the first question was in the negative, it also requested the International Court of Justice to rule on the issue of the legal ties between Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco and the Mauritanian entity. (wsrw.org)
  • The little-known conflict was exacerbated in the final weeks of the Donald Trump administration by an unprecedented decision to recognize a sovereign claim to the territory by the Kingdom of Morocco. (finalcall.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)
  • 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 official position of the Kingdom of Morocco since 1963 is that all of Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom. (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Critics say taking Morocco's side disqualified the U.S. as a credible broker on the Western Sahara issue. (finalcall.com)
  • In the case of Morocco, until Mr. Trump recognized Morocco's illegal land claim, America maintained relations with a noncommittal posture toward the contradiction. (finalcall.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Once colonized as the Spanish Sahara, the area has been in dispute since Spain relinquished it in 1975. (finalcall.com)
  • The Polisario has engaged an armed independence struggle against Morocco from 1975 until a United Nations brokered ceasefire was reached in 1991. (finalcall.com)
  • Since the Madrid Accords of 1975, a part of Western Sahara has been administered by Morocco as the Southern Provinces . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • Algiers public servant Salim said Moroccans and Algerians "ignore political differences" between their governments. (enca.com)
  • 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)
  • Saharawis take part in 2014 conference on self-determination and independence held in Morocco. (finalcall.com)
  • The Sahrawis make up 500,000 people, with 170,000 living in UN administered refugee camps in Algeria and who fled a vicious independence war against Morocco that began in 1976. (finalcall.com)
  • The conduct of India's foreign policy during the year under review remained firmly anchored in the nation's objectives of preserving its sovereign independence, its commitment to non- alignment, promotion of world peace, and our resolve to help bring about a new international economic order on the basis of justice and equality. (mealib.nic.in)
  • In February 1976, the Polisario Front declared Western Sahara to be the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), with the support of allies that included Algeria. (finalcall.com)
  • The SADR is recognized as a sovereign nation and is a founding state and member of the African Union. (finalcall.com)
  • The SADR controls 20 percent of its territory-mostly barren desert, while 80 percent is controlled by Morocco. (finalcall.com)
  • Although this approach has effectively se-rved Algerian interests, the longer this conflict rages on, Algeria will find neutrality harder to maintain. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Some Western pundits and lawmakers in Washington accuse Algeria of backing Russia in this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • 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)
  • It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest . (alamoana.net)
  • 2. "Iran Army to Hold War Games to Boost Capabilities: Commander," Tasnim News Agency, 26 December 2018, https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2018/12/26/1908335/iran-army-to-hold-war-games-to-boost-capabilities-commander. (ti-defence.org)
  • born 21 August 1963) is the king of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Spanish TV TVE just reported troops in #Morocco were mobilised from Sahara to #Rabat & #Casablanca. (libcom.org)
  • The UN installed a peacekeeping force called the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) charged with monitoring the truce and coordinating the referendum on self-determination in the Western Sahara. (finalcall.com)
  • The Annexation of Western Sahara by Morocco took place in two stages, in 1976 and 1979, and is considered illegal under international law . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • Mohammed has vast business holdings across several economic sectors in Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • Argentina ordered public sector bodies to sell or exchange their holdings of 11 sovereign dollar bonds in a bid to reorganise its debt as inflation soared above 100% and its foreign reserves dropped. (mailerlite.com)
  • The Geneva talks process led by the United Nations in Morocco is in tatters, against a background of trademark spectacular murders of captives by IS. (africa-confidential.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)
  • The Polisario Front is the group that has been at war with Morocco over the years for the territory. (finalcall.com)
  • The resistance is led primarily by the Algerian backed Polisario Front, or The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro. (finalcall.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)
  • The UN Special Representative for Libya, Spanish diplomat Bernardino León , had hoped to convene a fourth round of negotiations in Morocco during the last week of February between representatives from the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, which backs Haftar, and its Islamist-dominated rival, the Tripoli-based rump General National Congress. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Even the emergence of IS, with all its dangers, can be interpreted as a potential strategic advantage for the Tobruk government of Abdullah al Thinni and Haftar's Libyan National Army because it reflects a split within the ranks of Fajr Libya . (africa-confidential.com)
  • He pointed out that Morocco through strong lobbying efforts has garnered the support of many Democrats including Black lawmakers to certify its illegal occupation of the Western Sahara. (finalcall.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)
  • In 2011, protests considered part of the wider Arab Spring occurred against alleged government corruption. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • The payoff in exchange was Morocco signing the Abraham Accords of Arab nations normalizing relations with Israel. (finalcall.com)
  • The arms deal with Morocco is compared to the nearly $23.4 billion arms deal the U.S. gave the United Arab Emirates upon its inking the same Accords. (finalcall.com)
  • Tow of the Arab nations that joined BRICS recently, Saudi Arabia and UAE, will feel the heat from their Western allies. (islamicsocietiesreview.org)
  • 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)
  • Western ROM's pessimistic Occidental citizens, with their riot media, are looking spellbound at Russia and the collapse of Ukraine. (theinteldrop.org)
  • The radical separation of Russia from the global economic cycles of the value west due to Putin's military special action in the Ukraine as well as the transport costs on the oceans enormously increasing by Chinese lockdowns let the production of the global world companies, the turnover and the consumption collapse. (theinteldrop.org)
  • This would mean that Russia, the hardest hit country by Western sanctions, and Iran, the second longest hit country by Western sanctions will be able to trade without fear of Western limits. (islamicsocietiesreview.org)
  • Officials from the US, UK, and EU are planning to "jointly press" the UAE into halting shipments of goods to Russia that "could help Moscow in its war against Ukraine,' according to western officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). (islamicsocietiesreview.org)
  • Western envoys also traveled "jointly and separately" to countries such as Turkiye and Kazakhstan to pressure authorities into preventing western dual-use products from reaching Russia. (islamicsocietiesreview.org)
  • Rather, it is about widespread suspicions among Algerians toward France and other NATO members' intentions. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Earlier this month, the Italian energy giant ENI stated that it expects a doubling of Italian imports of Algerian gas by 2024 and a 50 percent increase in Algeria's gas exports to France is possible. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • 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)
  • In February 2020, the U.S. and Taliban insurgents signed a deal in which Washington pledged to withdraw international forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban promising to prevent international terrorists from using Afghan territory to threaten the U.S. and to enter talks with the Afghan government. (cemas.org.uk)
  • Under international law, Western Sahara is not a legal part of Morocco and it remains under the international laws of military occupation . (decisivechro276.cfd)
  • His speech is widely regarded by most young Sudanese, including members of the Umma party, as disappointing and lacking insight into the systematic destruction of the country by Al-Bashir`s government. (libcom.org)
  • The government has shown indifference, contempt and ignorance towards the complex history of its country, and the ideology of racial democracy has masked a long history of repression, racism, exploitation and military dictatorship. (kaderattia.de)
  • NDB seeks to counter the influence of Western-dominated multilateral banks - Bloomberg. (dontspeaknews.com)
  • As Bloomberg reported on May 30: "The New Development Bank, the lender created by the BRICS group of nations, will widen its membership as it seeks to boost its capital and counter the influence of Western-dominated multilateral banks. (dontspeaknews.com)
  • Whereas in Western museums entire staff painstakingly restore statues, paintings and objects, returning them to what they declare to be their 'authentic' state, in works such as The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures (2012) Attia creates the art of the of the repaired injury , of the visible scar and in doing so offers us a museum of emotions. (kaderattia.de)
  • Outside government, there is no or extremely limited public debate among academia, opinion-formers, and CSOs about defence issues. (ti-defence.org)
  • There is no government engagement in public discourse about defence issues or official communications contain no meaningful information. (ti-defence.org)
  • The government engages in discussion with the public about defence issues through open forums, an active website, or at media briefings. (ti-defence.org)
  • The government engages in regular debate with academia, opinion-formers, and CSOs about defence issues in collaborative ways. (ti-defence.org)
  • The Western Sahara issue is always central to Algerian foreign policy decision-making. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Its sovereign wealth funds may hold at least US$60 billion and it may yet have the same amount again in illiquid foreign reserves. (africa-confidential.com)
  • In addition, any partners who continue to help the French in the process of supplying the goods and services will be considered "enemies of the sovereign people," the reports added. (apa.az)
  • A few days before this statement, the French government cut official development assistance (ODA) to Mali because it believed that Mali's government is "allied to Wagner's Russian mercenaries. (midwesternmarx.com)
  • HM the King also followed equestrian shows by French duo Fréderic Pignon and Magalie Delgado (singing and dancing with horses), French company Jehol (Cossak acrobatics) and Portuguese horseman Luis Valenca (Royal Carrousel). (moroccanembassy.sa)
  • Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (center) with fellow government representatives of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere . (wikipedia.org)
  • Speaking to The Final Call from Spain, Mr. Said argued, the U.S. has no rights to the Western Sahara to make it a part of any deal. (finalcall.com)
  • It addresses their impact on consumers' choices, upon the careers of musicians and upon the policies that governments and legislators make. (bibliolore.org)
  • The answer is from countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Bolivia, Chile and Morocco, where environmental destruction and workers' exploitation will continue and even intensify. (tni.org)
  • Official position of wartime government was that they were a co-belligerent of the Axis against the USSR and United Kingdom during the Continuation War , but generally considered to be a member of the Axis (see e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to this, it would abolish human rights protections, introduce censorship and digital passports, require governments to promote a single "official" version, and allow the WHO to declare "pandemics" on a whim. (dontspeaknews.com)
  • Today's news for tomorrow's world. (mailerlite.com)
  • They are offered with the hope that the U.S. government will find in them ideas that can help it resolve old conflicts and defuse new ones, all in the service of a more peaceful world. (cemas.org.uk)
  • They (Morocco) have subverted democracy for all of these decades," Mr. Washington said. (finalcall.com)
  • Subsequently, the Algerians have taken neutral positions at the UN on other votes concerning the Russian invasion. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • When Spain left, Morocco laid claim to the area triggering a resistance movement by the indigenous Sahrawi people refusing annexation of their lands. (finalcall.com)
  • The Sahara is usually described as a vast empty land that is sparsely populated, and as representing an Eldorado of renewable energy, thus constituting a golden opportunity to provide Europe with energy so it can continue its extravagant consumerist lifestyle and excessive energy consumption. (tni.org)
  • While that may have prevented the rival governments from using the control of financial assets as a weapon, it funds both of them. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Government spokesperson Mustapha Baitas said the government had deployed military and civilian assets in a "swift and effective intervention to rescue the victims and recover the bodies" following the "instructions of His Royal Majesty. (gzeromedia.com)
  • Morocco, which called Saied's act "hostile", sees the mineral-rich desert region as a sovereign part of its own territory. (enca.com)
  • 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)
  • Eleven weeks into his third stint as Israel's prime minister, Netanyahu has yet to be received at the White House, signalling apparent US unhappiness over the policies of his right-wing government. (mailerlite.com)
  • The government co-organises discussions with independent think tanks or civil society organisations, or through joint media briefings. (ti-defence.org)
  • They not only liberated the port cities of Hong Kong and Shanghai from Western influence. (theinteldrop.org)