There are very few airbases in the bush which allow cargo planes to land safely when a war is on given that every rebel group has its share of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and mortars.
1. San Francisco State University is facing a lawsuit filed by a group of students who say the administration is allowing a climate of anti-Semitism to fester.
A former Spanish colony now annexed and ruled by neighboring Morocco, Western Sahara remains on the United Nation's list of "non-self-governing territories," a situation that has continued to disrupt peace and stability in the region for close to five ...
My main research interests are civil war and ethnic conflict, secessionism, rebelgovernance, violence and political contention, state (un)making, international security and research methods.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has played a vital role in the UN-led negotiations aimed at settling the Western Sahara issue, thus helping Morocco reap precious diplomatic points.
Windhoek-In response to the support and solidarity shown by the Namibian government towards the people of Western Sahara in their quest to gain independence, Morocco has reportedly threatened to institute an investigation over Namibia's apparent ...
Led by veteran Tuareg militant Iyad Ag Ghaly, Ansar Dine, the Sahara branch of al Qaeda in the IslamicMaghreb, Al Mourabitoun, and Katibat Macina merged to form Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (the "Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims ...
... the first anniversary of the death of its martyr president, Mohamed Abdelaziz, a distinguished figure by his political career and his struggle for independence of Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco and for the inalienable right of the Sahrawi to ...
The authors Massimiliano Boccolini, journalist and academic, and Alessio Postiglione, a journalist, academic and Italian leftist militant, previously a great sympathizer with the Polisario, explain that the book aims at "lifting the veil on ignorance ...
Blocked in the Maghreb over its tensions with Algeria on Western Sahara and without much potential to play a leading role in the Arab world, Morocco has turned to sub-Saharan Africa as its key conduit for wielding regional influence.
FILE - In this 1986 file photo, Sri Lankan government troops perform a drill practice at a camp in Trincomalee, Sir Lanka. In 1983, civil war broke out, with rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (or LTTE, known as Tamil Tigers) fighting ...
2009 - Sri Lankan troops declare victory in the civil war after defeating the Tamil rebels. The government has since refused all demands for an independent investigation into widespread allegations of war crimes and abuses by Sri Lankan soldiers ...
India's contributions to the UN's peacekeeping efforts were starkly highlighted in December 2013, when a 43-member unit of the Indian army fought to protect members of South Sudan's Dinka community from an attack by 2,000 rebels of the rival Lous Neurs ...
Syrian rebels begin to leave last opposition-held Homs district. * Yemen's Houthis say fire ... Morocco phosphate ship held in Panama over Western Sahara challenge - officials ... Saudi to open militant-monitoring centre during Trump visit. * Saudi ...
In a separate incident Wednesday, Somalia's 31-year-old public works minister, Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, was killed in the capital when security forces fired on his vehicle, "believing it was being driven by militants," according to Reuters ...
Rabat/Algiers A Moroccan phosphate ship has been held in a South African port by a complaint from Western SaharaPolisario movement that it transported cargo unlawfully from the disputed territory, a lawyer and Polisario said on Wednesday.
Harare - Zimbabwe and Namibia on Wednesday said they will not tire in their quest to see Morocco, which was recently re-admitted into the African Union (AU), give up its continued occupation of the Western Sahara. Morocco annexed Western ... It was the ...
... cut its large military spending because of austerity measures. This comes at a time of increased security threats posed by instability and jihadist militants in neighbouring Niger and Libya, and a tense stand-off with Morocco over the status of ...
They are tasked with the border monitoring to prevent illegal migrants from sneaking to Libya, to capture terrorists who try to join the ranks of the Islamic State group there and above all to fight Darfurrebels who are allegedly present in Libya now ...
The security forces were ordered to empty a camp housing some 12,000 people set up four weeks ago outside Laayoune, the main town in the Western Sahara, in a protest against the deterioration of living standards. The Polisario Frontrebel group ...
In the past, the two governments have clashed over who could legitimately speak for the Sahrawis, the people who live in the Western Sahara. Venezuela maintains that only the Polisario, a rebel group that wants a state in Western Sahara, can be theÃÂ ...
During that year, another ceasefire was signed, reinforced by a "sand wall" of more than 2,700 kilometres built by the Moroccan army, which still separates the positions held by Morocco (80 percent of Western Sahara) and positions held by the Polisario ...
Around 100 members of the Separatist Movement have joined ranks of the Islamic State group (IS) in Libya and in Sahara desert, head of Morocco's BCIJ (Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation) Abdelhak Khiame, told France24.
Rabat - Moroccan NGOs are calling on United Nations member-states, through an online petition, to take urgent action against Polisariomilitary units that are menacing stability in the Western Sahara buffer zone known as Guerguerat. Several Moroccan ...
In response to these Western interventions, a group of radical African states, led by Algeria and Egypt, announced that they would supply the Congolese rebels with arms and troops. They called on others for help, and the Cuban government announced it ...
"The extra security deployment was ordered after intelligence showed dozens of IS militants were present in the Western Sahara of Samarra," the Ministry of Defence source said. The country's Popular Mobilisation Forces were also involved in the new ...
Morocco, on whose coast the enclaves are, itself occupies most of Western Sahara - with the support of United States, France... and Spain. ... My favourite bit of doublethink here is regarding those Irish "rebels" who, from 1689, supported their lawful ...
Furthermore, even the Assad regime's harshest Western critics have never appeared ready to dramatically escalate their support for Syrian rebels or their direct military intervention regardless of whether or not they had UN authorization to do so, said ...
Furthermore, even the Assad regime's harshest Western critics have never appeared ready to dramatically escalate their support for Syrian rebels or their direct military intervention regardless of whether or not they had UN authorization to do so, said ...
MONUSCO, which is the only U.N. mission with a special offensive brigade mandated to "neutralize" rebel threats, succeeded in routing one high-profile group of insurgents known as the M23 in 2013.
Furthermore, even the Assad regime's harshest Western critics have never appeared ready to dramatically escalate their support for Syrian rebels or their direct military intervention regardless of whether or not they had UN authorization to do so, said ...
Yet this network has been intimately connected to Cambridge Analytica (the technology firm that ran Trump's election campaign), entities that have sponsored ISIS and other Islamist militants, as well as to ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers - who might ...
This very attitude and the reluctance of the Algerian military to engage on a military confrontation with Morocco in case of resumption of armed hostilities in the Western Sahara have enraged young independent minded Sahrawis fed up with living under ...
Sudan, speaking on behalf of a group of 20 States, said the human rights situation in Yemen required attention and the rejection of the rebels to comply with the peaceful solution was deeply concerning. The killing of civilians was condemned, and the ...
"The Polisario [Front] cannot fire a single shot and its secretary-general, appointed by Algiers, cannot move a finger without order from Algeria," he explained, referring to the secessionist Sahrawi Arabrebels in the contested Western Sahara ...
In 1984 Morocco turned it's back on Africa because the Organization of African Unity refused to support it's 1975 conquest of Western Sahara. For the next few decades Morocco followed the example of apartheidIsrael and looked only towards Europe andÃÂ ...
Faced with little hope to see their leadership overcome Algeria's political dictate that led to a deadlock in the United Nations (UN) sponsored negotiations over the final status of the Western Sahara and confronted with bleak economic prospects, a new ...
Yet this network has been intimately connected to Cambridge Analytica (the technology firm that ran Trump's election campaign), entities that have sponsored ISIS and other Islamist militants, as well as to ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers - who might ...
This very attitude and the reluctance of the Algerian military to engage on a military confrontation with Morocco in case of resumption of armed hostilities in the Western Sahara have enraged young independent minded Sahrawis fed up with living under ...
Sudan, speaking on behalf of a group of 20 States, said the human rights situation in Yemen required attention and the rejection of the rebels to comply with the peaceful solution was deeply concerning. The killing of civilians was condemned, and the ...
"The Polisario [Front] cannot fire a single shot and its secretary-general, appointed by Algiers, cannot move a finger without order from Algeria," he explained, referring to the secessionist Sahrawi Arabrebels in the contested Western Sahara ...
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