Following the unexpected resignation of Horst Köhler as the UNSG’s Personal Envoy for the Western Sahara on May 22, chances to advance the Western Sahara dossier in the coming year seem seriously diminished. However, other factors may keep the Americans pushing the parties forward.
A large delegation of elected representatives from Morocco’s Southern Provinces, led by President of the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab Regional Council, Yanja El Khattat, held talks with several Irish senior officials as part of a visit to Ireland (June 13-15).
The Dominican Republic has reaffirmed its respect for the territorial integrity of Morocco and its national sovereignty as well as its support for the efforts of Morocco in the search for a political solution to put an end to the regional dispute over the Sahara.
El Salvador's new government is currently in an assessment phase of its diplomatic relations with the pseudo "SADR", says on Friday the Salvadoran Foreign ministry.
After serving for just 25 months as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Köhler quitted his UN job for “health reasons”. His resignation raises the possibility of three scenarios.
Two years after taking office, UN Special Envoy to the Sahara Horst Köhler submitted his resignation citing health reasons, a decision that analysts say could bring negotiations over the Sahara issue to square one.
Lima-based Peruvian Solidarity Council with SADR, the Sahara republic, self-proclaimed by the Polisario with the support of Algeria, has dropped its support for an “independent” entity as claimed by the Polisario and urged the separatist movement to align itself with Morocco’s proposal for...
MINURSO is not the oldest UN peacekeeping mission. That distinction belongs to UNTSO, the peacekeeping operation headquartered in Jerusalem and UNMOGIP based in disputed Kashmir along the India/Pakistan border region.
Chairman of Australia-Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry Roland Jabbour has voiced his country’s full backing to Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Sahara.
In diplomacy, artful ambiguity can be a useful tool, but it can also be a dangerous trap when clarity would have been the better choice.
The United States allegedly has a policy on Western Sahara, but what is it?
A cargo ship, the World Cup and the wrangle over Western Sahara are factors in a bizarre face-off between Africa’s powerhouse nations, SA and Morocco, writes Ranjeni Munusamy
Interviewed by Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan, the Mauritanian president said that «the West, the United States and Europe do not want a state separating Mauritania from Morocco». «Everything you hear, outside this framework, is wrong», he said, adopting a position that was voiced in...
Colonial legacies, more exceptionally the inherited colonial border adjustments of postcolonial States, have sowed the seeds of instability in Africa and elsewhere.
Member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which attended a ministerial conference on the African Union's role in supporting the UN-led political process in Marrakech, defended their decision after snubbing a parallel meeting held in South Africa to support the Polisario...
This is a companion article to one, co-authored by my colleague Ed Gabriel and I, concerning recently declassified information on the history of US policy on Western Sahara which makes public, for the first time important elements of Western Sahara history that we both have direct knowledge of,...
Finding a lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara would benefit the whole region of the Maghreb, the UN Personal Envoy for the Sahara Horst Köhler said in a statement at the end of the second round of negotiations held at Le Château Le Rosey in Bursins, near Geneva, March 21-22...
An incredible document detailing the United States involvement in ongoing disputes over the Western Sahara has been declassified and made public by the State Department. The document outlines several key historical moments in U.S.
Morocco will hold an African conference at the foreign ministers’ level to show support for the UN process in the Sahara on March 25 in Marrakech.
South Africa’s foreign policy is my moral compass. Whatever it is vociferously for, I am instinctively against. This is not only down to its ambivalence towards human rights abuses and electoral niceties (which it once deemed to make a policy lodestar) over at least two decades in Zimbabwe, but...
The influential South-African newspaper ‘Daily Maverick’ criticized on Tuesday South Africa’s position on Morocco’s territorial integrity, noting that “Pretoria still prefers to view the issue through a Cold War lens.”
Despite a renewed emphasis in the Security Council on the need for the Parties to be “realistic” and willing to “compromise” in order to achieve a “mutually acceptable political solution” to the problem in Western Sahara, the Polisario has remained stubbornly intractable on its core position.