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The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, [69] and the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, expressed their grave concern over the conflict, with Faki stating "[The] Saharan issue has gone on for a long time and it has become urgent to solve it as a case of decolonization in the first place and to ...
15 January: The UN Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura visited Algers and the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, as part of the UN efforts to promote negotiations between the parties in conflict and a solution to the dispute. de Mistura met high-ranking officials of the Polisario Front, and the Secretary General of the ...
The Western Sahara War was an armed conflict, lasting from 1975 to 1991, fought primarily between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The conflict erupted after the withdrawal of Spain from the Spanish Sahara in accordance with the Madrid Accords, by which it agreed to give administrative control of the territory to Morocco and Mauritania. The ...
Pages in category "Western Sahara conflict" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. ... Timeline of the Western Saharan clashes (2020–present) W.
2020 Afar-Somali clashes: Africa Ethiopia: 27 [135] 1970 Western Sahara conflict. 2020 Western Saharan clashes; Africa Morocco SADR: 0–1+ [136] 1975 Cabinda War: Africa Angola: 68 [137] [66] 1980 Internal conflict in Peru: South America Peru: 38 [25] 1987 Lord's Resistance Army insurgency: Africa Uganda South Sudan Democratic Republic of the ...
Western Sahara War – 7,000 Moroccan, Mauritianian and French soldiers killed; 4,000 Sahrawi People's Liberation Army soldiers killed; 3,000 civilians killed; Second Sahrawi Intifada – 1 killed; Gdeim Izik protest camp – 18–36 killed; 2011 Sahrawi protests – 1 killed; Western Saharan clashes (2020–present) - 66 killed
1970 – present Western Sahara conflict. 1973 – 1976 Sahrawi insurgency; 1975 Green March; 1975 – 1991 Western Sahara War; 2020 – present Western Saharan clashes (2020–present) July 10, 1971 1971 Moroccan coup attempt; August 16, 1972 1972 Moroccan coup attempt; April 11, 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
Western Sahara [a] is a disputed territory in North-western Africa.It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). [3] Approximately 30% of the territory (82,500 km 2 (31,900 sq mi)) is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is occupied [4] [5] and administered by neighboring Morocco. [6]