Vol 61 No 23 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARANORTH AFRICA Gunfight ends 30-year calm 19th November 2020 Polisario's efforts to stymie Morocco's growing trans-African trade may have yielded more results than decades of talk While Morocco was congratulating itself on persuading an emerging regional power, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to open a consulate in El Ayoun (known to Moroccans as Laâyoune),...
Vol 58 No 20 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARAEUROPEAN UNION Game of names 6th October 2017 African leaders meet their European Union counterparts in Abidjan in late November with migration and increased European investment certain to dominate the agenda. However, an unlikely sideshow has...
Vol 56 No 2 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARABRITAIN You say Morocco 23rd January 2015 The British personal injury and negligence law firm Leigh Day is preparing judicial review proceedings against Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over claims that Morocco is passing...
Vol 55 No 8 | WESTERN SAHARA Bid for Sahara rights 15th April 2014 Two former United Nations officials are lobbying for human rights monitoring to be added to the Mission des nations unies pour le référendum dans le Sahara Occidental (Minurso)...
Vol 55 No 7 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARANORWAY Kill the drill 4th April 2014 The Norwegian-based company Aker Solutions has decided to stop providing oil services to its drilling rig in disputed waters off Western Sahara after Africa Confidential publicised the case...
Vol 55 No 6 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARANORWAY Testing the offshore limits 21st March 2014 Sahrawi officials are again trying to get the UN to intervene with oil companies drilling in disputed offshore areas A legal battle may be brewing between the Polisario Front, which since 1973 has aspired to rule Western Sahara, and Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions over offshore...
Vol 55 No 6 | MOROCCOWESTERN SAHARAUNITED STATES Senate for Morocco 21st March 2014 About a month after the United States Senate passed a bill that, very unusually, affects the disputed territory of Western Sahara, Washington lobbyists Gray Global Advisors revealed they...
Vol 55 No 3 | WESTERN SAHARAMAGHREB No end to deadlock 7th February 2014 The region has long been a bone of contention between Algeria and Morocco – and natural resource opportunities are forcing it up the agenda The impasse over the sovereignty of the former Spanish Sahara is still preventing the five Union du Maghreb arabe (UMA) nations from achieving regional unity. Prospects of ending...
Vol 52 No 7 | WESTERN SAHARAUNITED STATES Hello and good-bye 1st April 2011 Just as United States-based Kosmos Energy is about to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange to finance operations in Ghana’s Jubilee field,...
Vol 50 No 1 | WESTERN SAHARA Stalemate in the Western Sahara 9th January 2009 Algeria and Morocco remain at odds over independence for the disputed Western Sahara – and Polisario is frustrated Under its most talented Foreign Minister in decades, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, Morocco is working hard to keep hold of the disputed Western Sahara (AC Vol 49 No 7). This...