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Arab News
April 28, 2018
Sammad was a key face of the Houthis,” Adam Baron, co-founder of the Sanaa Center For Strategic Studies, told Arab News. Yemeni political analyst and former Nobel Peace Prize nominee Baraa Shiban also believes this to be a significant blow to the militant group. “The entire Houthi movement dependsÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 28, 2018
Morocco Hails UN Resolution on Western Sahara for Sending Firm Signal to Rebels ... MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A new UN resolution on Western Sahara has sent a firm message to the separatist Polisario Front that it should not aspire to change the status quo in the region, the Moroccan envoy to the UN said.
AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
MINURSO is there to monitor the armistice between Morocco and the rebels of the "Frente Polisario" who are fighting for the independence of the Western Sahara. In 2016, Morocco which has occupied this territory since 1976, dismissed 84 MINURSO staff after being angered by a statement from the UNÃâà...
Morocco World News
April 4, 2018
Rabat – Contrary to the UN spokesperson's categorical denial of any Polisario Front-linked military presence in the Western Sahara buffer zone, there is a ... He also called on them [Polisario militants] to “withdraw from the buffer strip as they did in April 2017,” suggesting that there indeed remains a militaryÃâà...
WTOP
April 4, 2018
FILE - In this Thursday, July 31, 2003 file photo, Ahmed Boukhari, representative of the Polisario Front rebel movement, speaks to the media after the United Nations ... Morocco considers the mineral-rich Western Sahara its “southern provinces” and has proposed giving the territory wide-ranging autonomy.
Yahoo News
March 28, 2018
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has extended a unilateral ceasefire with rebels in its three main conflict areas for an additional three months, until the end of June, state news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday, citing a presidential decree. Fighting between the army and rebels in the Kordofan and BlueÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 23, 2018
GENEVA (22 March 2018) - The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting held a general debate on technical assistance and capacity building, after hearing the presentation of reports on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti and Yemen. At the beginning of the meeting,Ãâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 22, 2018
He once famously said of the United Nations — an institution that employed him as a negotiator in Western Sahara — that its “Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.” In his memoir, Bolton wrote: “My happiest moment at State wasÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 12, 2018
NOTES WITH SATISFACTION the significant decrease of hostilities between the Government of Sudan and the rebel forces in Darfur and COMMENDS the Government of Sudan for extending the unilateral ceasefire as announced on 8 October 2017 and ENCOURAGES the armed movements to alsoÃâà...
The Leader Newspaper Online
March 10, 2018
She was held just a few hours before catching her flight back to Spain after a family visit since, which time Koria has remained isolated and incommunicado in the town of Mijek, in Western Sahara, under the control of the Polisario Front, a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end MoroccanÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 4, 2018
While the war in Syria has been winding down, Israel has been ramping up its support for anti-government rebels inside the country. A report ... If you are talking about the Western Sahara of the 1970s. If you're ... Now, it is very important to note that I am not saying that all rebels in Syria are agents of Israel.
seattlepi.com
February 27, 2018
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's top court says a fisheries agreement the bloc has concluded with Morocco can't include the waters off the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that the "Moroccan fishing zone" referred to in the pact "does not includeÃâà...
Sahara Press Service
February 25, 2018
The other particularity of this celebration is the “historical” participation of one hundred human rights militants and experts who will prepare an effective ... The 42nd anniversary of the SADR proclamation is being celebrated at a time diplomatic actions intensify to settle the Western Sahara conflict and reviveÃâà...
Morocco World News
February 16, 2018
Rabat – The sovereign nation of Morocco will never accept being reduced to the same level of militant separatist groups like the Polisario Front. ... would affect its sovereignty over the territory, as the country considers the only solution to solve the Western Sahara conflict to be the Moroccan Autonomy Plan.
Global Voices Online
February 13, 2018
While Mauritania eventually withdrew from Western Sahara, Moroccan forces to date still control what is sometimes referred to as ''Africa's last colony''. For 16 years, the rebel group known as the Polisario Front fought a guerilla war for independence against Morocco, before a UN brokered ceasefire cameÃâà...
New Europe
February 8, 2018
This latest effort to try and debunk the existing deal is not surprising, coming from an organisation that has been advocating for the self determination of Western Sahara. And indeed this dispute is only one component of a wider issue, namely that the Polisario Front, a Sahrawi rebel national liberationÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
February 7, 2018
U.S. intelligence officials have long denied so-called “vetted” rebels in Syria were recipients of anti-aircraft systems, but rumors to the contrary have .... by the U.S. Agency for International Development to eradicate locusts, were struck by MANPADS fired by POLISARIO militants in the Western Sahara.
The Guardian
February 4, 2018
Toy Soldiers Budraiga No 2. Toy Soldiers is a collaboration between a military commander and an artist that uses real soldiers, posed as toy soldiers, to investigate the impact, legacy and dehumanising effects of war. The series is set in Western Sahara, where conflict has continued for more than 40 years.
EUobserver
January 10, 2018
The European Commission will not stop work on a new fishery agreement with Rabat - despite a top EU legal opinion that invalidates the existing deal. A European Court of Justice (ECJ) advisor on Wednesday (10 January) said the trade agreement violates the rights of people from Western Sahara.
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, have long been run by the Polisario movement, which seeks an independent state in Western Sahara, also claimed by Morocco. But a new generation of Sahrawi refugees is growing fractious as aid dwindles and diplomatic efforts fail to deliver a settlement. HannahÃâà...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
December 31, 1999
Although most of the dead were members of the military, several of those killed were reported to be members of the Polisaro Front, the Western Sahara independence movement ... While the coalition came about to halt the advances of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, however, the UAE has since focused on its own agenda.
Yahoo News
December 31, 1999
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's president confirms death of journalists taken captive by dissident Colombian rebel group. Trump backs off tweet warning Russia of 'coming' Syria strike. Yahoo News. Trump backs off tweet warning Russia of 'coming' Syria strike. A day after warning Russia in a tweet thatÃâà...
TradeWinds
December 31, 1999
The question of sovereignty over Western Sahara is inherently political and is currently the subject of the UN process, to which the Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco are already engaged. Until this question is officially and legitimately resolved by the UN Security Council, it should not interfere withÃâà...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
The regime of Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria again, this time attacking the town of Douma in the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta. Dozens of people were reported to have been killed. Donald Trump described the attack as “barbaric” and vowed that America would respond withÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
December 31, 1999
The Polisario Front, a rebel group seeking independence in Western Sahara, declared seven days of mourning for the at least 30 Sahrawis it said were on the flight. Many of them were thought to have been travelling to Tindouf, a city bordering the disputed Western Sahara territory that is home to SahrawiÃâà...
Іnsіdеr Cаr Nеws
December 31, 1999
An EU fisheries deal with Morocco remains valid as long as it does not involve the disputed region of Western Sahara, the bloc's top court ruled Tuesday, avoiding a clash between Brussels and Rabat. But British body will have to dictate final judgement by applying interpretation offered by Community court.
