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The Western Sahara conflict

Western Sahara // Western Sahara area has never formed a state in the modern sense of the word. ... Take to commons: Image:Map of Western Sahara. ...

• History of Western Sahara
• History of Morocco
• Sahrawi Arab D. Republic
• Spanish Sahara
• Ifni War
• Madrid Accords
• ICJ Advisory Opinion
• Green March
• Berm (Western Sahara)
• Human rights in Western Sahara

• Ifni
• Saguia el-Hamra
• Río de Oro
• Southern Provinces

• Legal status of Western Sahara
• Politics of Morocco
• Politics of the SADR
• Former members of the Polisario Front
• CORCAS
• Moroccan Initiative for Western Sahara

• Moroccan Army of Liberation
• Harakat Tahrir
• Polisario Front
• Zemla Uprising
• Independence Uprising

• UN Security Council Resolution 1495
• UN Security Council Resolution 1754
• UN visiting mission
• MINURSO
• Settlement Plan
• Free Zone
• Houston Agreement
• Baker Plan
• Manhasset negotiations

 v • d • e  // Western Sahara area has never formed a state in the modern sense of the word. ... The Capsian culture brought Morocco into the Neolithic about 8000 BC, at a time when the Maghreb was less arid than it is today. ... Motto: حرية ديمقراطية وحدة (Arabic) Liberty, Democracy, Unity Anthem: Yābaniy Es-Saharā  listen This map indicates the territory claimed by the SADR, viz. ... Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled by Spain, created from the Spanish territories of Rio de Oro and La Aguera in 1924. ... The Ifni War, also known as the 1957 Invasion of Spanish Sahara and, in Spain, the Forgotten War (la Guerra Ignorada), was a series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents and indigenous Sahrawi rebels that began in October 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of... The Madrid Accords were a series of behind-the-scenes meetings between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania to partition the territory of Spanish Sahara held in 1975. ... One of the main functions of the International Court of Justice is to provide Advisory Opinions - non-binding legal interpretations admitted by United Nations organs. ... This article is about the historical event. ... The Berm of Western Sahara (Also known as the Moroccan Wall) is an approximately 2,700 km-long defensive structure, mostly a sand wall (or berm), running through Western Sahara and the southeastern portion of Morocco. ... // Morocco sees Western Sahara as its Southern Provinces, and has been claiming it since its independence in 1956. ... Ifni was a Spanish province on the African coast in what is now Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands. ... This region of Western Sahara makes up the northern third of the country. ... Río de Oro (Spanish for Gold River, Arabic: wādÄ«-ð-ðahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969. ... The Moroccan name for Western Sahara. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Moroccan Constitution provides for a monarchy with a Parliament and an independent judiciary. ... The politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic take place in a framework of an area occupied and claimed by Morocco, and a republic in exile, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, that doesnt recognize the claims by Morocco. ... Since the end of the 1980s, several members of Polisario have decided to discontinue their military or political activities for the Polisario Front. ... The Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) (French: Conseil royal consultatif pour les affaires sahariennes) is an appointed body of advisors to the Moroccan government working in the Southern Provinces, i. ... The Army of Liberation (French, Armée de Libération, Arabic, jayshu-t-tahrÄ«r) was a force fighting for the independence of Morocco. ... Sahrawi movement for the independence of Western Sahara. ... The Polisario, Polisario Front, or Frente Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and [[Río de Oro]]) is a Sahrawi rebel movement working for the separation... The Zemla Intifada (Intifada means uprising) is the name for the disturbances of June 17, 1970, which culminated in a massacre by Spanish forces in the Zemla quarters of El-Aaiun, Western Sahara (then Spanish Sahara). ... The Independence Intifada (intifada is Arabic for uprising) is a Sahrawi name for the disturbances, demonstrations and riots that broke out in May 2005 in the Moroccan-held parts of Western Sahara. ... To assist in the decolonization process of the Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara), a colony in North Africa, the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 dispatched a visiting mission to the territory and the surrounding countries, in accordance with its resolution 3292 (December 13, 1974). ... MINURSO is a UN peacekeeping mission, established in 1991 to monitor the ceasefire and to organize and conduct a referendum which would enable the people of Western Sahara to choose between integration with Morocco and independence. ... The Settlement Plan was an agreement between the Polisario Front and Morocco on the organization of a referendum, which would constitute an expression of self-determination for the Sahrawi people of the non-decolonized territory of Western Sahara, possibly leading to full independence. ... The Free Zone is in yellow on the map. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Baker Plan A United Nations plan to grant Western Sahara self-determination. ... The 2007 Manhasset negotiations (also known as Manhasset I and Manhasset II) are a series of talks taking place at Manhasset, New York between the Moroccan government and the representatives of the Sahrawi Polisario front rebel movement to resolve the Western Sahara conflict. ...