{"id":1556,"date":"2009-09-07T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:11:15","slug":"the-western-sahara-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"The Western Sahara problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years ago, the position of Western Sahara was one of the first places to feature in my long-running series called &#8220;Forgotten World&#8221; &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.co.uk\/ForgottenWorld.html#WS\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nEighteen years ago today, the Polisario Front (the Western Saharan liberation movement) laid down their arms, ending a 16-year war with Morocco. As part of a UN-negotiated ceasefire a referendum on self-determination was promised but has yet to be carried out.<br \/>\nThe need to resolve this dead-lock is highlighted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/sep\/07\/polisario-front-ceasefire-morocco\">this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years ago, the position of Western Sahara was one of the first places to feature in my long-running series called &#8220;Forgotten World&#8221; &#8211; see here. Eighteen years ago today, the Polisario Front (the Western Saharan liberation movement) laid down their arms, ending a 16-year war with Morocco. As part of a UN-negotiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}