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Peacekeepers with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara consult a map as they drive through vast desert areas in Smara, in the Moroccan Occupied Territories of Western Sahara.
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Opinion: Morocco, Algeria and the Cold War

Opinion: Morocco, Algeria and the Cold War

The recent tension between Algeria and Morocco is nothing unusual and not the first of its kind. For more than three decades the Sahara issue, which dates back to 1975, has been a serious problem, a source of tension and deep political sensitivity between the two...