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Title: | Western Sahara: The Escalating Confrontation |
Author: | Hodges, Tony |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Africa Report |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | March-April |
Pages: | 4-9 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Western Sahara |
Subjects: | military intervention nationalism Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
Abstract: | France's air strikes in Mauritania mark an important turning point in the two-year-old war pitting Morocco and Mauritania against the guerillas of the Polisario. The article describes the escalation of the confrontation, since Spain handed Western Sahara over to Morocco and Mauritania in accord with a tripartite agreement of November 14, 1975. Polisario with two years guerrilla experience decided to turn the tables on the new Moroccan and Mauritanian adversaries by spreading the war beyond the frontiers of ex-Spanish Sahara into the regions of southern Morocco and Mauritania as well. France's participation, Algeria's support of Polisario, the role of Morocco and Mauritania are discussed. Both Algeria and Morocco have used the dispute to draw attention from internal problems, while in the case of Mauritania, the very existence of the state may be at stake. Photo's; map. |