Units of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and Gendarmerie have been redeployed to the Moroccan Sahara near the buffer zones following the reopening of the former Sahara road connecting the city of Choum (in the far north-east of Mauritania) to Tindouf, in southwestern Algeria.
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Le Maroc vient d’envoyer un message clair au “polisario“ et à l'Algérie. Dans sa dernière livraison, la revue des Forces Armées Royales a confirmé publiquement une information qui circulait dans les milieux informés: des manœuvres inédites interarmées viennent d’être organisées, simulant une...
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On Sunday 20th of May, the Polisario Front made sure to commemorate the outbreak of its armed struggle in Tifariti, located east of the Moroccan Berm. The decision discredits the movement’s stance and will to conduct direct negotiations with the Kingdom.
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Morocco’s high-resolution satellite imaging is shifting power relations across North Africa.
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Since April 1 Morocco has launched an unprecedented diplomatic offensive to mobilize support for its position on the Western Sahara.
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French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian has allegedly warned his Algerian counterpart that France would not oppose Morocco’s military intervention against Polisario’s illegal maneuvers east of Morocco’s defense wall.
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The rising tension between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario is threatening peace and stability in a region already struggling to curb the surge of terrorist groups.
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Morocco has reportedly informed Algeria that the country is ready to intervene militarily if the Polisario Front continues to refuse the United Nations and Morocco’s call to withdraw from east of the Moroccan defense berm.
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For some years now I have been trying fruitlessly to persuade my former colleagues at the State Department, and anyone else who would listen, that the status quo in the Western Sahara was not sustainable.
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Since the meeting of the interior and foreign affairs ministers with the joint committee of the parliament in charge of foreign policy on Sunday, April 1, we have witnessed a proliferation of statements by Moroccan officials on Morocco’s determination to repel any Polisario attempt to change...
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FAR fighter jets are conducting reconnaissance flights throughout the region to detect new incursions by the Polisario armed elements in the buffer zones, similar to those recorded on March the 29th and April the 1st,» a source close to the file told Yabiladi.
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The relocation of any "polisario" facility, be it civil, military, administrative, or of any kind or nature whatsoever, from the Tindouf camps in Algeria, to the East of the security structure in the Moroccan Sahara, "constitutes a casus belli", warned permanent representative of Morocco to the...
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Morocco will never allow any change in the legal and historical status of the Guerguarat buffer zone, which is an integral part of the national territory, said, Sunday in Rabat minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita.
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The Polisario Front announced its intention to stage provocative maneuvers in Bir Lehlou and Tifarity, two buffer zones located in northeastern Western Sahara.
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Après s’être engagée à renouveler «l’arsenal» du Polisario, devenu obsolète du fait du manque d’entretien, Alger se rétracte in extremis et invoque des difficultés budgétaires. Le front séparatiste est sur les dents.
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Algerian government mouthpiece, Algeria Press Service, and other pro-separatist websites have been inflating news regarding military exercises by the Polisario separatists, east of the berm in the region of Aouserd, as a sign of the militias’ readiness and capacity to wage war against Morocco....
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During the late seventies, King Hassan II sent a number of diplomatic envoys to the USA to convince the Carter’s administration to hand OV 10 Bronco aircrafts and Cobra helicopters over to Morocco. Despite the sovereign’s endeavors, the 39th president of the United States refused to fulfill the...
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The border conflict between Morocco and Algeria, known as the Sand War, was an opportunity for Fidel Castro to initiate a military intervention outside the borders of his country. The second time was when, the Cuban forces joined President Dos Santos in Anglo while King Hassan II supported his...
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While most North Africans and Europeans observers concur that a Morocco-Algeria War is highly unlikely, Moroccan and Algerian troops keep amassing on the borders.
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The Algerian government, which no longer hides its belligerent attitude towards the Moroccan neighbor, chose this phase of tension in the region of Guergarate to make an important arms delivery to the Polisario, as a means to encourage the separatist front to persist in its escalation against...
