Noref Report 3 - On Western Sahara March 2009
15 April 2009
5 pages,
As Spain – in the 1970s – was undergoing a difficult transition from the dictatorship of Generalissimo Franco towards a democracy Morocco – in the wake of considerable domestic turbulence – annexed the former Spanish colony of the Western Sahara. Morocco claimed that it was merely restoring its territorial integrity, disrupted by French and Spanish colonialism. The claim was challenged by Sahrawi nationalists in the Polisario Front, backed by Algeria.
