western sahara conflict

• Olmert Flies Home to Disgrace

[Ehud Olmert]'s disgrace was underlined when his children, in a written statement to the press, distanced themselves from their father. They said that Olmert led them to believe that he paid for their trips abroad from his own pocket. Now they know that the tickets were paid from funds that Olmert fraudulently obtained from various NGOs, including Yad Vashem and the Organization for the Welfare of the Israeli Soldiers. Olmert asked [Recep Tayyip Erdogan] to tell Syrian President Bashar Assad that Israel is very serious in its effort to talk peace with Syria. Assad, however, stood firm on his belief that no progress with Israel could be achieved as long as Olmert and U.S. President George W. Bush are in power. [Nicolas Sarkozy] surprised them by revealing that none other than Shimon Pere...

... immigrants from the African sub-Saharan countries, the environment, the pollution of the M...The Arab-Israel conflict was not the only divisive issue in Paris. The West...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• Morneault v. Canada (Attorney General), (1998)

... in the Law of War, or the Law of Armed Conflict including the four 1949 Geneva Conventions on the ... missions, including those for Cyprus, the Western Sahara, and other operations on the African contin...

• Federal Court

• North African Nations Distance Themselves From Arab League

Both Saudi Arabia and Egypt promised [Condoleezza Rice] to increase their efforts to solve the intra-Palestinian disputes between Hamas and Fatah. Here, too, one cannot draw any conclusions from Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's tough rhetoric. Hamas's position in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly untenable. In a speech Friday, Haniyeh said Hamas won't surrender to outside pressures, won't accept the Quartet's conditions for implementing the "roadmap" for Palestinian statehood and won't even accept the 2002 Saudi peace plan because it implies a recognition of Israel.

... Sudan; Morocco is pre-occupied with its conflict with Mauritania over the Western Sahara; Algeria i...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• A 'Farewell Kiss'

One of those doubters is the German finance minister, Peer Steinbrueck. "The same people who would never touch deficit spending are now tossing around billions," he said last month. "The switch from decades of supply-side politics all the way to a crass Keynesianism is breathtaking" -- and it is raising national debt to levels that "will take a whole generation to work off. You can't accuse the [George W. Bush] administration of a foxhole conversion to deficit spending, because it ran huge deficits as a matter of course. But in the rest of the world, conservative governments, and even "socialist" governments, really tried to balance their budgets, and often succeeded. Now they are all Keynesians, desperately hoping that big government spending will pull their economies out of a nosediv...

... did not encourage Colombia to pursue the conflict, however, and after a week everybody made up and w...Discouraging year. Africa below the Sahara has had a deeply discouraging year. The resurgent ..., and the Bush administration and several Western European governments promised to bring both Georgi...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 02, 2009

• Globalization and the nation-state.

... by a plague of vicious ethnic conflicts and a collapse of `leadership.' . The hardest posi... Mozambique, Angola, and Namibia; Peru and western Sahara and Kurdistan. I have probably forgotten a ...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 53 Nbr. 4, June 1996