A.O.E. Semanario Gráfico de África Occidental Española

Abstract

The weekly magazine A.O.E. linked to the Spanish Army in the African colony of Ifni since 1945 was a clear exponent of the politics of colonial preservation of the status quo in the fifties and the sixties. Its main aim was to reinforce and to encourage the resident population in the territory and its extensive coverage of the war of Ifni-Sahara during the period 1957-1958, while Spain was faced up to the armed bands controlled by Morocco, was very different from its informative silence ten years later, due to the withdrawal from the territory.