Everything about List Of Conflicts In The Maghreb totally explained
This is a list of post-
colonial military conflicts within the
Maghreb region.
Morocco-Algeria conflict
Morocco and
Algeria entered into armed conflict in the 1963
Sand War. Morocco claimed the regions of Bechar and Tindouf that France had attached to what was the French overseas departement of Algeria, respectively in 1934 and 1952. After independence, Algeria insisted that the frontiers inherited from Colonialism shouldn't be altered. This three-month war didn't change the status quo ante, but tension remained strong between the two countries, later to be cemented through Algeria's support for the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara conflict.
In 1973
Libya effectively went to war against
Chad and annexed Chadian land. Libya launched a full scale invasion of Chad in 1980.
Following Egypt's first negotiations with
Israel in 1973,
Libya became hostile to
Egypt. In 1977, not long after demonstrators in the two countries attacked each other's consulates, the two countries fought a four-day war (
July 21-
July 24) during which several Libyan aircraft were destroyed on the ground. The war ended with no change to the
status quo ante.
Western Sahara conflict
Western Sahara, formerly a
Spanish colony, was partitioned and annexed by
Morocco and
Mauritania in 1975, in application of the Madrid Accords. The UN has called for the
self-determination of the
population of the territory. In 1979, Mauritania had been effectively defeated by the
Polisario Front nationalist group, and withdrew its claims, upon which Morocco claimed the whole territory.
Algeria backed the Polisario against Morocco both militarily and diplomatically. The Polisario Front declared an
exile government, the
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, in 1976, but most of the area remains in Morocco's hands, behind the
Moroccan Berm. A
cease-fire has been in place since the 1991
Settlement Plan, and ongoing negotiations including UN backed attempted to organize a
referendum on final status of the territory have continued since. However, both parties have refused to substantially compromise on their respective positions(see
Baker Plan). As of mid-2007, the kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front are directly negotiating an issue to the conflict. In 2005 a series of
demonstrations and riots struck the contested provinces.
Morocco-Spain conflict
In what it views as a case of unfinished
decolonization,
Morocco claims the
Spanish enclaves of
Ceuta and
Melilla, as well as
Perejil Island (Layla Island). In 2002, the Moroccan army briefly occupied the uninhabited Perejil Island, but left without fighting shortly afterwards, when Spain sent in soldiers.
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