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?
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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
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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...
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Colonial legacies, more exceptionally the inherited colonial border adjustments of postcolonial States, have sowed the seeds of instability in Africa and elsewhere.
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.”
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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.
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Ever since Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and Peter van Walsum submitted his final report to the Security Council as the Secretary General’s Personal Envoy, there has been an added emphasis on the word “realistic” in the search for a solution to the problem in Western Sahara.
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The Council of the Socialist International (SI), convened on Jan. 28-29 in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, adopted a recommendation in support of the search for a negotiated political solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
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The territorial integrity of the Kingdom and its stability is a strategic priority for Turkey, said, Friday in Rabat, Ibrahim Kalin, envoy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is carrying a message to HM King Mohammed VI.
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Only few days after the diplomatic victory scored by Rabat with the adoption by the European Parliament with a large majority of the Morocco-EU Farm Agreement that covers the Sahara, the U.S.
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The adoption of the agriculture agreement between the European Union (EU) and Morocco, thanks to a favorable vote by a large majority of the European Parliament, marks the beginning of a new stage in relations between the two parties, said, Wednesday in Rabat, EU High Representative for Foreign...
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The European Parliament's adoption, by an overwhelming majority, of the Morocco-European Union (EU) agriculture agreement testifies to the Kingdom's privileged position with the EU as a strategic partner with its own particularities, said, Wednesday in Rabat, minister of Foreign Affairs and...
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The absence of a final settlement for the Sahara issue hampers the integration of the Maghreb and promotes terrorism and all kinds of trafficking in the region, said European Deputy Aymeric Chauprade.
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It is a famous advertising line that Morocco was the first country to recognize the British American colonies (thirteen), at the heist of the American revolutionary war in 1777, which culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Marrakech (also called Treaty of Friendship) on the 28th of June 1786...
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Japanese Foreign minister Taro Kono reiterated, Monday in Rabat, his country's stance on the Sahara issue, saying that Japan does not recognize the pseudo "SADR" as a State.