UN Envoy For Western Sahara Quits
The UN envoy for Western Sahara has resigned after leading efforts for eight years to settle the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement, a UN source said Monday....
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Trade Rises As Tensions Ease On WSahara Contested Road
Trade has picked up on a contested road in Western Sahara on Morocco's border with Mauritania after tensions eased between troops and separatists, officials and truck drivers said Wednesday. Moroccan...
Polisario Dismisses Morocco Pullback As ‘window Dressing’
Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the contested Western Sahara that has raised tensions with their Algiers-backed movement....
Morocco To Pull Out of UN Buffer Zone
It was annexed by Morocco in 1975 - a move resisted by the Polisario Front. Morocco is to pull out of a UN buffer zone in the disputed Western Sahara territory, an official statement says. The...
Morocco King Urges UN Measures On Western Sahara
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The...
Morocco Urges UN To End Polisario ‘provocation’
Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday asked the United Nations to take urgent measures to end "provocation" by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front threatening the ceasefire in the disputed Western...
Hundreds of Migrants Enter Spain From Morocco
Hundreds of migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Friday, days after Morocco warned the EU of fresh migrant trouble following a row over a trade deal. The Spanish civil...
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African Leaders Lack Revolutionary Experience
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says the vote to readmit Morocco to the African Union (AU) shows a lack of ideology by some African leaders. Speaking to state media on his return home from the AU...
Inside the African Union Race
It is the morning after the night before and the cold chill of the night have lifted. At the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa it's post mortem time and everyone is asking one question: how...
Morocco Rejoins the African Union After 33 Years
The African Union has decided to allow Morocco back into the fold after a 33-year absence, despite stiff resistance from some member states over the status of Western Sahara. After an emotional and...
Morocco Rejoins the African Union After 33 Years
The African Union has decided to allow Morocco back into the fold after a 33-year absence, despite stiff resistance from some member states over the status of Western Sahara. After an emotional and...
African Union Admits Morocco As A Member
The North African kingdom quit the AU three decades ago The African Union formally admitted Morocco as a member on Tuesday, more than three decades after Rabat withdrew from the predecessor...
Morocco Readmited Into the African Union After Three Decades
Morocco has been readmitted into the African Union on Monday since it left in 1984 after the organisation’s recognition of the independence of Western Sahara. The readmission was approved during...
Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat Wins African Union’s Top Job
African Union (AU) leaders have chosen Chad's candidate as the next head of the AU commission. Chadian Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat beat Kenya's top diplomat Amina Mohamed. The race is...
Mahama Scores An A*, B+ For Botchwey, B
Hajia Alima Mahama Scores an A*, B+ for Shirley Ayikor Botchwey, B- for Boakye Agyarko I am no expert. I have no way of knowing who will actually be a good minister and who will not. I only speak...
S. Africa’s Ruling Party ‘discourages’ Travel To Israel
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has reiterated his party’s solidarity with the “oppressed people of the world” citing Palestine, Western Sahara and Cuba. At the 105th anniversary...
Kitesurfing In the Dakhla Danger Zone
Throughout the year, kitesurfers in need of an adrenaline rush travel the globe to glide on the waters of the Dakhla lagoon in Western Sahara. It is a unique seaside treat which the Moroccan...
Behind Morocco’s New Tango with the African Union
Why is King Mohammed VI of Morocco suddenly keen to join the African Union (AU) after his late father King Hassan II condescendingly ditched the continental Organization of African Unity the (OAU) in...
Morocco’s Bid For AU Membership Opposed
Morocco has officially applied to return to the continental body it pulled out of in 1984. Western Sahara has opposed Morocco’s bid to rejoin the African Union unless it recognises the independence...