Western Sahara News

• Western Sahara: UN says Western Sahara mission being 'undermined'

  The United Nations stepped up complaints about Morocco's tactics in Western Sahara as the UN Security Council on Tuesday held its annual talks on efforts to end deadlock over the territory's future. UN leader Ban Ki-moon has told the Security Council that the UN mission's communications from the Moroccan-controlled territory with UN headquarters have been "compromised." He said various "factors
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 17th Apr, 2012 at 05:58PM in General    Source:Heritage  0  Comments

• Western Sahara: UN Announces Next Round of Talks to Try to Resolve Western Sahara Dispute

  The next round of United Nations-backed informal talks aimed at reaching a settlement in the Western Sahara dispute will take place next month, the UN announced today. Delegations from the parties to the dispute - Morocco and the Frente Polisario - and the neighbouring countries of Algeria and Mauritania will gather just outside New York for three days of discussions
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 25th Feb, 2012 at 05:44PM in General    Source:UN News Service  0  Comments

• Western Sahara: Western Sahara rebels 'detain kidnap suspects'

  Western Saharan rebels have detained people implicated in the October kidnapping of three Europeans in Algeria, the APS agency quoted rebel officials as saying on Thursday. "They were acting on behalf of a criminal organisation unknown until now," Khatri Eddouh, president of the Polisario parliament, was quoted as telling journalists late Wednesday. The report did not say how many people
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 15th Dec, 2011 at 12:55PM in General    Source:Vanguard  0  Comments

• Western Sahara: 11 sentenced over Western Sahara football clashes

  A court in Western Sahara on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to jail terms over their involvement in clashes after a football game last month that left seven dead. The convicts were given sentences ranging from 8 months to one year, Morocco's MAP press agency reported. The violence in which two policemen died broke out among rival team supporters after a
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 11th Oct, 2011 at 07:42PM in General    Source:Vanguard  0  Comments

• Western Sahara: 7 killed in Western Sahara violence

  

  Seven people, including two policemen, were killed in fighting that broke out after a weekend football match in Dakhla, a Western Sahara port city, Morocco's state MAP news agency said on Tuesday.
  
  The previous reported toll from Sunday's violence was two.
  
  After the match, fighting broke out between rival supporters, causing "seven deaths,
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 27th Sep, 2011 at 12:37PM in General    Source:The Moment  0  Comments