{"id":21524,"date":"2026-02-17T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:05:34","slug":"morocco-finally-conquered-western-sahara-and-nobody-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21524","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Finally Conquered Western Sahara&#8230;And Nobody Noticed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For decades, Morocco has had a dispute over Western Sahara, where rebels demanded independence. Morocco has controlled all the valuable parts of the land, but the rebels had the desert and help from neighboring Algeria. Recently, Morocco has gained more and more international support for its claim, culminating in a UN Security Council vote in favor of its claims, with help from the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morocco Finally Conquered Western Sahara...And Nobody Noticed.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giUf3_zWN3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Morocco has had a dispute over Western Sahara, where rebels demanded independence. Morocco has controlled all the valuable parts of the land, but the rebels had the desert and help from neighboring Algeria. Recently, Morocco has gained more and more international support for its claim, culminating in a UN Security Council vote in favor of its claims, with help from the United States. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=giUf3_zWN3s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,390,272,355,314,1170,2003,1920,1040,619],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-morocco","tag-north-africa","tag-rebels","tag-un","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21525,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}