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Amine Ghoulidi

Amine Ghoulidi

Visiting Fellow in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation and PhD candidate in geopolitics and security at King's College London, specializing in critical minerals and migration in North Africa.

Aug 31, 2026

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until
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1976 through a Green March.
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where thousands of Moroccan citizens marched into Western Sahara to claim it peacefully.
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On the back end, there were negotiations between the Moroccan government and the Spanish government.
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There's a whole thing we can talk if you would like, but I think it would be off topic in terms of how Morocco claimed Western Sahara and how the Spanish military establishment perceived Morocco regained control of Western Sahara, which leads today to some of the grievances that are still sitting.
16:19
Some of the leadership that was actually still active in Western Sahara, Spanish Sahara, is still alive today.
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There are more recent incidents, 2022, Moroccan gendarmes, which are...

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21:33
So why Morocco? What makes it particularly vulnerable to these tactics? And maybe just give us a little bit more color as to what you have found with how social media was playing a role in this entire incident.

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