The EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, illegally extended to occupied Western Sahara, is due to expire on July 24, 2023 with no negotiations in sight for a possible renewal.
Since the Spanish colonisation of the region ended in 1975, Morocco annexed Western Sahara, sparking a 15-year conflict with the separatist Polisario Front movement, which is supported by Algeria. The conflict came to a halt with a 1991 cease-fire agreement brokered by the United Nations. However, the Polisario Front renewed the conflict in 2020, declaring the entire Western Sahara a"war zone.
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