Author:
Ali Bahaijoub

North-South
Books 2021

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Since its inception in 1975, the Western Sahara issue has not only threatened the stability and security of North-West Africa but proved almost fatal to the survival of the OAU that Morocco left in 1984 and rejoined in 2017.

As a journalist and an academic in the subject, the author identifies numerous distinct and interrelated historical and political patterns of change on the regional, continental and international levels each of which had a significant bearing on the evolution of events leading to the current state of the conflict.

This book attempts to explain the established power balance in the Maghreb and the long-running differences between Morocco and Algeria and the underlying factors contributing to the present stalemate.

This referenced book of 550 pages is based on unpublished and published Spanish, French, English and Arabic sources including interviews with a number of participants in the events described, this is a detailed analysis providing an understanding of the complex relationship between Algeria and Morocco since independence. The plight of refugees in the Tindouf camps, in southwest Algeria, and the roles of the Polisario, the AU and the UN are also covered extensively.