In North Africa, Algeria remains shaky and violent, the three-decade-old Western Sahara conflict continues to fester, and both Tunisia and Egypt still fake democracy while stifling dissent.
UN's new plan for Western Sahara dropped self-determination?
According to the Foreign Office they'd already reached a preliminary view that refurbishment was not a violation of the cease-fire in Western Sahara in 1998, after contacts with the UN mission Minurso "in the region".
UN's legal counsel told the Security Council that Morocco had no right to issue oil-exploration rights in Western Sahara without the consent of Western Saharans.
In recent years, Mr Belmokhtar has gained notoriety as a hostage-taker across the vast Sahara, often demanding multi-million dollar ransoms from Western governments which - along with cigarette-smuggling - finances his jihad.
The Algerian Interior Ministry also said that 107 foreign workers and 685 local employees had been released, following the end of the hostage-taking by Islamist militants at the Western-run In Amenas gas facility, in the Sahara desert.
Moulkheir told her story to CNN in December, when a reporter and videographer visited Mauritania a vast, bone-dry nation on the western fringe of the Sahara to document slavery in the place where the practice is arguably more common, more readily accepted and more intractable than anywhere else on Earth.
The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.
According to the Foreign Office, there were seven meetings here between 1st February 1999 and June 21st 1999, when the British team finally sent a telex back to the Foreign Office on an agreement they said they'd reached with the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations - DPKO - and with Minurso, the UN mission in Western Sahara.
UN-monitored ceasefire, to be followed by a referendum on Western Sahara's future in 1992.
In between our refusal and the hearing of the appeal, the United Nations in Western Sahara and in New York confirmed the refurbishment was within the terms of the cease-fire agreement and they were willing to supervise the refurbishment.
In the autumn, Sahrawis demonstrators in the territory openly chanting pro-Polisario slogans clashed with Morocco's security forces in the worst violence in Western Sahara since the war ended nine years ago.
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