.JUST ABOUT 50 YEARS have passed since Morocco professed prepotency over Western side Sahara, a piece of property that goes for 900km along the Atlantic shore to the nation's south. The Polisario Front end-- a resistance group backed by Algeria, Morocco's lasting opponent, and also working with the area's native populace, the Sahrawi-- is actually still defending control. In 2020 a 29-year ceasefire broke down. On July 30th France contacted Morocco's think about Western Sahara the "simply manner" to handle the disagreement. Algeria withdrew its own ambassador to France in response.