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[1] "Western Sahara is the territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco in the north, Algeria and Mauritania in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. A former Spanish colony, its listed ..."
URL: https://theconversation.com/western-sahara-the-six-decade-struggle-to-liberate-africas-last-colony-192654

[2] "Western Sahara - a disputed territory on the northwestern coast of Africa and the site of a decades-long, violent tension between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ..."
URL: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/north-africa/1644168451-explainer-western-sahara-conflict

[3] "December 18, 2020, 10:41 PM. Fighting erupted last month between Morocco and separatists in the disputed Western Sahara, a territory claimed by Morocco. The sparsely populated region is bordered ..."
URL: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/18/how-the-western-sahara-became-the-key-to-north-africa/

[4] "March 19, 2022. MADRID — In a bid to ease tensions with Morocco, Spain has recognized for the first time a plan drawn up by the African country for governing Western Sahara, a former Spanish ..."
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/world/europe/spain-morocco-western-sahara.html

[5] "Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States in 1777 and the two countries have maintained good relations on a variety of fronts such as trade and counter-terrorism. On the periphery of the geographical Middle East, Morocco has been one of the few consistent allies of the United States in a region fraught with instability."
URL: https://teachmideast.org/articles/regional-spotlight-and-explainer-the-western-sahara-dispute/

[6] "A United Nations (UN) peace proposal in 1988 specified a referendum for the indigenous Sahrawis to decide whether they wanted an independent Western Sahara under Polisario Front leadership or whether the territory would officially become part of Morocco."
URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/Western-Sahara

[7] "The disputed Western Sahara region: part of the contested area (shaded) lies under the control of the Polisario Front. Part of the territory (striped) is governed by Morocco. Both areas are monitored by UN peacekeepers. (TRT World and Agencies) In 1975, colonial power Spain, that had governed the Western Sahara, left the region."
URL: https://www.trtworld.com/mea/timeline-of-western-sahara-morocco-and-the-polisario-front-313511

[8] "This article explains how and why the US administration and its allies in the region, notably Algeria, launched a new Saharan-Sahelian front in the global war on terror in 2002-03."
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329701582_Morocco-Western_Sahara

[9] "As colonial powers relinquished many of their claims, Spain decided to leave Western Sahara in the early 1970s — known then as the Spanish Sahara. The Spanish finally left the territory in 1975, as the tensions regarding the ownership of the region began heating up."
URL: https://borgenproject.org/the-morocco-western-sahara-conflict/

[10] "The Western Sahara conflict has destabilized regional security cooperation and assistance. The distrust and aggression between morocco and Algeria have been so critical that the whole region has been dragged into a spiteful circle of collective suspicion, counterproductive rivalries and self-defeating policies."
URL: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/12/16/an-unending-conflict-of-morocco-and-western-sahara/


Current date: 3/9/2023

Instructions: Using the provided web search results, write a comprehensive reply to the given query. Make sure to cite results using [[number](URL)] notation after the reference. If the provided search results refer to multiple subjects with the same name, write separate answers for each subject.
Query: Write an in-depth article that explains the history and current state of the politics between Morocco and the Western Sahara Territory.