{"id":73339,"date":"2020-12-17T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T06:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=73339"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T06:23:48","slug":"the-significance-of-us-recognising-moroccos-sovereignty-over-western-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-significance-of-us-recognising-moroccos-sovereignty-over-western-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"The significance of US recognising Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over Western Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-the-significance-of-us-recognising-moroccos-sovereignty-over-western-sahara-7102282\/\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Morocco has agreed to become the fourth Arab nation to normalise relations with Israel as part of a deal in which the US agreed to recognise its claim over the disputed Western Sahara region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18725\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Morocco-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Morocco-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Morocco.jpg 304w\" alt=\"Morocco\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Western Sahara:<\/strong>\u00a0It is a disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>It is mineral rich home to abundant reserves of phosphate, a key ingredient in the manufacturing of synthetic fertilisers.It has also lucrative fish resources and is believed to have off-shore oil.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dispute:\u00a0<\/strong>After Spain had withdrawn from Western Sahara in 1976, two thirds of its annexed by Morocco.Since then it has been the subject of a territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Saharawi people led by the Polisario Front.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Click here News:\u00a0Morocco has agreed to become the fourth Arab nation to normalise relations with Israel as part of a deal in which the US agreed to recognise its claim over the disputed Western Sahara region. Facts: Western Sahara:\u00a0It is a disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-significance-of-us-recognising-moroccos-sovereignty-over-western-sahara\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The significance of US recognising Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over Western Sahara<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1439],"class_list":["post-73339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-ir_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775464,"cached_date":1704888632},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}