Wind turbine contract triggers squall in disputed Western Sahara


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Issue 226 - 01 Mar 2012 | 7 minute read

Signs of rapprochement between Algeria and Morocco, and the gathering pace of Morocco’s renewables programme, provide some of the most positive newsflow from North Africa, but the central issue dividing Algiers and Rabat will not go away – and contracts awarded by Moroccan developers to foreign firms in the disputed Western Sahara are providing fresh ammunition in the Polisario Front’s independence campaign, writes Selwa Calderbank

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