Western Sahara

Algeria and Morocco: whispers of a thaw

Arab Digest Newsletter / July 22, 2016 October 11, 2021 / Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara

Morocco seeks to join the African Union. Western Sahara as always the obstacle. An unusual high-level contact with Algeria.

Sudan and the ICC

Arab Digest Newsletter / July 20, 2016 October 11, 2021 / Djibouti, Human rights, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, Western Sahara

President Bashir of Sudan in Rwanda for the OAU summit, continuing to defy the ICC travel ban. ICC not popular or effective in Africa.

The End of the Roseate Dream?

Arab Digest Newsletter / June 21, 2016 October 11, 2021 / Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara

Are attitudes changing in Rabat? Over the last six months, Morocco has fallen out with Europe, the United Nations and the United States. Will Paris abandon its North Africa protégé?

Western Sahara

Arab Digest Newsletter / March 11, 2016 October 11, 2021 / Algeria, Europe, Morocco, Western Sahara

Weatern Sahara an intractable dispute, 40 years old and with no end in sight, poisoning relations between Morocco and Algeria. A row between Morocco and the EU. First visit by Ban Ki-moon.

Morocco: modest progress

Arab Digest Newsletter / February 23, 2016 October 11, 2021 / Algeria, Europe, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Western Sahara

Morocco making her own way, but shares some problems with the Middle East including the IS threat.

Morocco: containing the Salafis

Arab Digest Newsletter / July 11, 2015 October 11, 2021 / IS, Morocco, Western Sahara

Morocco active against Islamists, not (yet) targeted by IS. Management of Salafi shaikhs a model for elsewhere?

Western Sahara

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