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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: A New, Old Crisis in Western Sahara
Description: Ban Ki moon visited a refugee camp in Algeria that is home to people displaced by conflict in Western Sahara and he uttered remarks that created a diplomatic maelstrom.
Ban referred to the quote "occupation" of Western Sahara, by the government of Morocco.Â
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Morocco responded with a massive government sponsored protest in the streets of Rabat, and also ceased cooperation with a UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, including evicting civilian members of that mission. It has also threatened to pull its own troops from UN peacekeeping missions worldwide.
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All because of a word.
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With me to put this...