Violence Erupts in Western Sahara

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On November 13, Morocco launched a military operation to unblock the flow of goods along a road extending from Mauritania into Western Sahara. The move came three weeks after the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, a movement advocating independence for the Moroccan-controlled territory, blocked the road and prevented several hundred trucks from entering Western Sahara via Mauritania. On November 14, the Polisario declared that a thirty-year ceasefire had effectively ended and the group was now at war with Morocco. So far, no casualties have been reported, but the eruption of violence represents a significant deterioration in one of Africa’s longest-running frozen conflicts. Coming on the...

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