{"id":5506,"date":"2024-11-02T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T08:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2024-11-02T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T08:49:06","slug":"western-sahara-security-council-extends-minurso-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/western-sahara-security-council-extends-minurso-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sahara: Security Council extends MINURSO mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Former Spanish colony Western Sahara remains Africa\u2019s last non-self-governing territory.The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Western Sahara.<\/h6>\n<p>The Security Council adopted on Thursday a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for an additional year, until 31 October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>With this text, the Council stresses once again that it is necessary to reach a &#8220;realistic, pragmatic, lasting and mutually acceptable&#8221; political solution to the question of Western Sahara.<\/p>\n<p>Western Sahara, a vast territory of 266,000 km\u00b2, located in the North-West of Africa, is bordered by the Moroccan province of Tarfaya to the north, Algeria to the north-east, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast overlooks the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is a United Nations peacekeeping operation headquartered in Laayoune.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on<em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.un.org\/fr\/2024\/cs15882.doc.htm\"> press.un.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Spanish colony Western Sahara remains Africa\u2019s last non-self-governing territory.The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Western Sahara. The Security Council adopted on Thursday a draft resolution renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,503],"tags":[1361,994,1360],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news","tag-minurso","tag-security-council","tag-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5509,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}