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The Moroccan Court of Cassation confirms the verdicts of 19 Sahrawi activists

The Moroccan Court of Cassation upheld the sentences handed down in 2013 to 19 separatists from Western Sahara, ranging from twenty years to life imprisonment. Saharawi activists are accused of taking part in the violence in the Gdim Izik camp near the border in southern Morocco in 2010. This verdict comes against the background of renewed conflicts between the Saharawis and Moroccans.…

establishment between Polisario Entrance and Morocco

It's troublesome to know precisely what is occurring on the bottom, on this area disputed by Morocco and the separatists. Final Friday, the Polisario Entrance claimed that the ceasefire signed in 1991 was damaged after a Moroccan navy operation to dam a highway within the buffer zone in Guerguerat, close to the border with Mauritania. Yesterday, the UN confirmed the trade of fireplace between Moroccan…

tensions in Western Sahara are worrying in Nouakchott

The bulk and opposition political events represented in parliament say they're frightened concerning the resumption of hostilities close to the nation's northern border between Morocco and the Polisario Entrance. The separatists suspended the one crossroads between Mauritania and Morocco three weeks in the past. The dominion says it has launched an operation to reopen the Guerguerat junction, positioned…

resumption of the Mauritanian border after three weeks of blockade

Road traffic resumed on 14 November at the Guerguerat border post, marking the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania. The blockade of activity for several weeks served as a justification for launching a Moroccan military operation, leading to the end of a nearly thirty-year ceasefire between Rabat and the Polisario Front and the concerns of the international community.…

The UN and Morocco’s neighbors demand peace

On Friday, November 13, the Polisario Entrance introduced the top of the ceasefire that ended nearly thirty years in the past, in 1991. An announcement made after a Moroccan navy operation within the buffer zone in Guerguerat to unlock a street to Mauritania. The UN and nations bordering Morocco have since responded. The…

Morocco launches navy operation within the Guerguerat space

Guerguerat's border submit has been blocked for a number of weeks. By launching this operation on Friday morning, Morocco condemns the "provocations from the Polisario Entrance". The separatists from the Polisario Entrance had warned for a number of days. They threatened to reply to a doable intrusion of Moroccan troops or…

a surprising number of trees live in the region

When we talk about the Sahel zone, about sub-Saharan Africa, we imagine a desert zone without vegetation and especially without trees. However, a study by the CNRS has just shown that there are many more trees there than we thought. Observation of a region as large as four and a half times the size of France, with a resolution…

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