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The Western Sahara Conflict is Upended By a Trump Tweet

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The Western Sahara Conflict is Upended By a Trump Tweet

Mark Leon Goldberg
Dec 18, 2020
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The Western Sahara Conflict is Upended By a Trump Tweet

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On December 10th, Donald Trump upended over 30 years of US diplomacy with a tweet in which he declared American support for Morocco's claims of sovereignty over Western Sahara.

Since the 1970s, Morocco and a local group called the Polisario Front have fought for control of Western Sahara. In the early 1990s the United States brokered a ceasefire agreemen…

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