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What’s Behind Spain’s About-Face On Western Sahara? – Analysis
Known as Africa’s “last colony” Western Sahara is a stretch of desert territory along part of Africa’s Atlantic coast, bordering Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania. The tragic story of Western Sahara is one of a decolonization crisis rooted in the Cold War that remains unresolved.
By the 1960s, Spain — the colonial...