western sahara in English

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a region in northwestern Africa, on the Atlantic coast between Morocco and Mauritania; population 405,200 (est. 2009); capital, Laayoune. Formerly an overseas Spanish province called Spanish Sahara, it was renamed and annexed by Morocco and Mauritania in 1976. Mauritania withdrew in 1979 and Morocco extended its control over the entire region. A liberation movement, the Polisario Front, which had launched a guerrilla war against the Spanish in 1973, continued its struggle against Morocco in an attempt to establish an independent Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic; a ceasefire came into effect in 1991.

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1. Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion 1975 I.C.J.

2. Revenue generated within the territory of Western Sahara must therefore accrue to its people.

3. In this vast Adrar desert, which borders Western Sahara, an inexorable drought governs nature and man.

4. Algeria has hosted refugees from Western Sahara since 1975, one of the world’s most protracted refugee crises

5. And collapse of the Socialist Mexican Party in 1989. Morocco – End of the Western Sahara War in 1991.

6. 28 In this vast Adrar desert, which borders Western Sahara,[www.Sentencedict.com] an inexorable drought governs nature and man.

7. (September) Morocco and Polisario guerrilla forces accept UN plan to end 13 years of war in Western Sahara.

8. On 30 January 2017, Morocco rejoined the African Union after a 33-year absence despite resistance from member states over the status of Western Sahara.

9. The Moroccan Western Sahara Wall or Berm is an approximately 2,700 km (1,700 mi) long structure, mostly a sand wall (or "Berm"), running through Western Sahara and the southwestern portion of Morocco.It separates the Moroccan areas (the Southern Provinces) on the west from the Polisario-controlled areas (Free Zone, nominally Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) on the east.

10. Western Sahara – Pray that God would nurture those who have chosen to follow Him, draw them into fellowship with one another, and provide them with discipleship training.

11. Spain has demanded a prompt explanation from Morocco after 12 people including a Spanish citizen were killed when Moroccan security forces raided a protest camp in Western Sahara.

12. The channel had, according to an official statement, “seriously distorted Morocco's image and manifestly damaged its greater interests, most notably its territorial integrity,” an apparent allusion to Western Sahara.

13. In all of them, billions of calcified insect ootheca testify to past occurrences of Acridian plagues, such as those reaching the western Sahara following heavy rainfall events over the Sahel.

14. The Moroccan army says 78 people were killed when a military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, just north of the disputed Western Sahara territory.

15. That offer had been acclaimed in many world capitals, but had been rejected by Algeria, which wanted to see an independent Western Sahara which it would control, thereby gaining an opening on the Atlantic Ocean.

16. The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and eventually took it over a wide region of Northwest Africa including modern Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and part of Algeria.

17. The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and eventually took it over a wide region of Northwest Africa including modern Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and part of Algeria

18. Item 39 –– Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples –– Question of Western Sahara –– Request for hearing –– Letter dated 23 September 2009 from Alima Boumediene-Thiery to the Chairman of the Committee [A C E F R S]

19. Algeria is a country located in North Africa, with a Mediterranean Sea coastline in the north and sharing its borders with Morocco to the northwest, Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali to the southwest, Mauritania and Western Sahara to the west.

20. Item 37 –– Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples –– Question of Western Sahara –– Request for hearing –– Letter dated 17 September 2008 from Washington Varela Salazar, Alcalde de Tena, Ecuador, to the Chairman of the Committee [A C E F R S]

21. Following a trip to Rabat, Algiers and Tindouf, the chair of the European Parliament’s ad hoc Delegation to Western Sahara and Vice President of the European Parliament, Catherine Lalumière, presented a very polemical draft report in April 2002 that provoked heated debate about the viability of the 1991 settlement plan.

22. dd # tem # mplementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples-- Question of Western Sahara-- Request for hearing-- Letter dated # eptember # from a representative of the Asociación de Amistad del Pueblo Saharaui de Extremadura y Ex Alcalde de Olivenza (Badajoz), to the Chairman of the Committee [A C E F R S]