Sentence examples for polisario from inspiring English sources

The Algerians have doggedly backed Polisario.

Polisario is getting more encouragement from other African countries; most now recognise Sahrawi statehood, including, recently, Kenya and South Africa.Morocco and Polisario doggedly stick to their apparently irreconcilable positions.

(Morocco has opted out of membership, affronted by various statements of support by the AU for Polisario, the guerrilla movement that wants independence for Western Sahara, which Morocco has claimed as its own since the departure of the territory's colonial master, Spain).

But for Polisario only a vote on full independence will do.The UN, still promoting its referendum plan, is again getting involved.

Polisario has freed some of the Moroccan prisoners it brought with it to Algeria long ago and agreed to resume registering Saharawis for the referendum.

In a former journalistic life, I once spent ten days with the Polisario guerrillas, fighting (with the political backing of Algeria) to remove Morocco from its occupation of the Western Sahara.

Two months later, in a significant policy shift, the Polisario Front agreed to Mr Annan's proposal that the commission should also scrutinise a further 65,000 potential electors.

The Polisario Front's unexpected readiness to compromise has undermined King Hassan's government.

Guerrillas of the Algerian-backed Polisario Front fought a 15-year war for Saharan self-determination until the UN brokered a ceasefire in 1991.

In his latest report to the UN Security Council, Mr Annan, expressing frustration at the continuing impasse, said the Polisario Front might now be ready to talk about partition.Blueprint for EuropeThe EU's constitutional convention opened amid salvoes of ideas for running an enlarged EU.

So too did the Polisario Front, an armed nationalist movement which sought to turn Western Sahara (which has lots of phosphate and maybe off-shore oil too) into an independent state for its largely nomadic people.