The United Nations has been trying to broker a Western Sahara settlement since 1991 after a ceasefire was reached to end a war that broke out when … Rabat, 4 January 2021 (SPS) - Researcher, journalist and former agent of the Moroccan intelligence services Farid Boukas spoke on his Facebook page of a lack of confidence and serenity within the command of the Moroccan army after the outbreak of the 2nd war in Western Sahara. Boukas used the “N24” web channel to report the recruitment of 600 agents in charge of conducting … The long-dormant war in the Western Sahara, interrupted for the past 30 years by a truce, is erupting into renewed violence with military clashes between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front. Polisario engaged in a 16-year war with the kingdom that ended with a ceasefire and plan for a referendum on independence. The Polisario Front inaugurated its armed anti-colonial movement with a raid on a Spanish colonial checkpoint at al-Khanga on May 20, 1973. At the time, European powers criminalized these actions, dismissing them as banditry. According to the press agency of Algeria and that of Polisario itself, its militias are actively fighting in Western Sahara. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has described “the Western Sahara conflict remains the oldest unresolved conflict on the continent.” While technically not true (the conflict in Katanga which dates to 1960 is a decade older) the quote speaks to the perception of the conflict as an intractable one. [2] Vivian Solana, “Hospitality’s Prowess: Performing Sahrawi Sovereignty in Refugee Camps,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 42/2 (2019). Moroccan military incursions into disputed region of Western Sahara threaten to restart Polisario armed struggle against "occupation" Threat of war emerges again in Western Sahara | … Ten years after Gdeim Izik, the latest expression of Sahrawi political resistance is again rendered invisible. Morocco and the Western Saharan Polisario Front exchanged fire after the Moroccan army entered Guerguerat, a ‘buffer zone’ just south of the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, to divert Saharawi peaceful protesters blocking Morocco’s “plunder corridor” to Mauritania. Boukas used the “N24” web channel to report the recruitment of 600 agents in charge of conducting … To those of us who study and follow news about the conflict over Western Sahara closely, the scant and distorted coverage that Sahrawi political expression receives is far from unfamiliar. Since the war’s declaration, the SADR’s official news agency has been sharing regular news of missile strikes against military positions along Morocco’s berm. Third, it is worth noting that during the war for Western Sahara (1975-1991), Moroccan forces also committed war crimes. The current war in the area known as the Western Sahara began in 1975, when the area then known as the Spanish Sahara was evacuated by its Spanish rulers. The irony that the violence of ongoing occupation has coexisted with the practice of international peacekeeping in the territory certainly does not escape Sahrawis themselves. [6] Raquel Ojeda-García and Joanna Allan, eds., “Why do Natural Resources Matter in the Western Sahara Conflict? Morocco controls about 80% of the … Tellingly, between 1950 and 1983, over 90 percent of U.S. arms deliveries to Morocco occurred during the first 7 years of the Western Sahara war. Given the precarious nature of the situation, it is essential for the international community to move quickly to ensure this obscure conflict does not spiral into full open war. Throughout much of the ceasefire period, the conflict over Western Sahara has been described as “frozen,” “locked” or “stalled” and as a stubborn “zero-sum” game between two parties. Seeking to interrupt a peace process that was providing time to bloat the colonization of Western Sahara, the SPLA’s missiles directly target a military berm but, more obliquely, they aim to open up space for Sahrawi futures. War looms in Western Sahara Morocco demands UN pull out troops after Ban condemns 'occupation,' Sahrawi independence groups warn doing so spells return of war.
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