Pierre-Olivier François, Sahara : conflit ensablé ?, Le dessous des cartes, September 8, 2018

According to the UN, this is one of the last unresolved colonial conflicts. For fifty years, the desert areas of Western Sahara, rich in raw materials and open to the sea, are the object of an endless rivalry between Morocco – which occupies 80% of the territory – and Algeria, which supports separatists Sahrawi.

A conflict that divides the Maghreb, Europe and even the UN Security Council, anxious not to further destabilize a region marked by jihadist insurrections.