The Western Sahara Conflict

Morocco has announced the withdrawal of its forces from a
U.N. buffer zone in the disputed Western Sahara territory, where for months they had been in a standoff with troops from the Polisario independence movement.

The military moves last year were one of the most tense in recent years between Morocco and Polisario, which declared an independent republic in the desert land in the 1970s and fought a guerrilla war with Morocco until a 1991 ceasefire.

The standoff in Guerguerat began last year …
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