Berm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/berm/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Berm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/berm/ 32 32 Tensions along Western Sahara sand was with Morocco https://jjcornish.com/2016/08/tensions-along-western-sahara-sand-morocco/ Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/08/tensions-along-western-sahara-sand-morocco/ Tensions have risen in the Western Sahara to level not seen since a ceasefire was negotiated between Moroccan occupier and Saharawi fighters a quarter of a century ago. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern over the situation and urged  both sides to stand by the commitments they made in in 1991. ends […]

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]]> Tensions have risen in the Western Sahara to level not seen since a ceasefire was negotiated between Moroccan occupier and Saharawi fighters a quarter of a century ago.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern over the situation and urged  both sides to stand by the commitments they made in in 1991.

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After illegally occupying the Western Sahara in 1976, Morocco built a sand wall to keep the Polisario Front fighters at bay.

Now armed units from both sides have been inserted and started patrolling close to each other.

The United Nations has failed to get Morocco to keep its promise to allow the Saharawi a referendum to decide on their future.

Now its proving unable to get the warring sides to maintain the status quo.

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