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(Bloomberg) — In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers, supported by Morocco’s neighbor Algeria.
The dispute has rumbled on to this day, with long periods of uneasy peace punctuated by occasional outbreaks of fighting. Meanwhile, Morocco has cemented its control over what it calls its “southern provinces,” developing the local economy…
