Reuters: Western Sahara

UN council renews contentious W.Sahara mission

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:57:11 +0000

* UN council unanimously renews W.Sahara peacekeeping force

UN set to renew Western Sahara force despite criticism

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:00:07 +0000

* U.N. accused of softening criticism of Morocco in report

S.Africa outraged by changes to UN Western Sahara report

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:36:00 +0000

UNITED NATIONS, April 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's United Nations envoy voiced outrage on Tuesday at the watering-down of a U.N. report on the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which the Polisario Front independence movement says the world body changed due to French and Moroccan pressure.

UPDATE 1-Morocco may have spied on Western Sahara mission-UN

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:11:09 +0000

UNITED NATIONS, April 12 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested that Morocco may have been spying on the world body's monitoring force in the disputed territory of Western Sahara and hampering its ability to function, according to a new report obtained by Reuters.

EU to train security forces in Africa's Sahel

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:53:39 +0000

BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Friday to send experts to Africa's Sahel region to train security forces, particularly in Niger which faces a growing Islamist threat, and to increase food aid.

UPDATE 1-Morocco's OCP targets 10 mln T fertilisers output

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:23:37 +0000

March 22 (Reuters) - Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP) plans to raise its output of fertilisers by 2020 to 10 million tonnes, from 3.6 million, as Morocco's top export earner bets on a rapid increase in global demand, company sources said on Thursday.

Morocco's OCP targets 10 mln T fertilisers output

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:30:10 +0000

Still no breakthrough in Western Sahara talks

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:42:39 +0000

UNITED NATIONS, March 13 (Reuters) - Three days of talks between Morocco, Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement, Algeria and Mauritania on the political future of Western Sahara ended on Tuesday with little progress.

UPDATE 2-W.Africa bloc orders Mali rebels to end attacks

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:49:22 +0000

* Ivory Coast president takes over as ECOWAS chairman (Updates throughout with Mali, Senegal)

Ivory Coast president chosen as new ECOWAS chairman

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:55:45 +0000

ABUJA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The West African regional group ECOWAS on Friday voted Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara as its new chairman, just over a year after he won an election that sparked a four month civil war in the world's largest cocoa exporter.