The incident ended when both countries agreed to return to the status quo ante which existed prior to the Moroccan occupation of the island.

Resolution 34/37: Deplored Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and urged to terminate it.

In 1987, Haidar participated in a nonviolent demonstration against Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.

El Aaiún (de jure - headquarters of Moroccan occupation)

In 1468-1469 though, many scholars left for Walata when Sunni Ali's Songhay Empire absorbed Timbuktu and again in 1591 with the Moroccan occupation.

She was born in 1976 in the Sahrawi refugee camps, where her mother had settled in late 1975, fleeing from the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.

A secondary school supervisor by profession, Mustapha's writing has been largely banned in Western Saharan territory since 2005, following his open support of the right of Saharawis to demonstrate and oppose the Moroccan occupation.

Polisario insisted on the 1991 agreement's use of a Spanish census, taken immediately before the Moroccan occupation in 1975, as the basis of voter registration.

It distributes information on the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, which it refers to as Africa's last colony.

Despite the initial success of the Moroccan occupation, the logistics of controlling a territory across the Sahara soon became too difficult and by 1630 the Saadians had lost control.