King of Morocco to be biggest benefactor of EU trade agreement
by Fiona Govan A new EU trade agreement that is set to boost the personal fortune of King Mohamed VI of Morocco is facing opposition because it promotes the exploitation of disputed territory of the...
View ArticleWestern Sahara: Fresh brutality from occupying force
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim & Laura Gilbie, A prison in Western Sahara. Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The Sahrawi people...
View ArticleAfrica’s Last Colony
Twenty years ago, in 1992, a referendum of independence was to have taken place in order to allow the Sahrawian people to determine their own future. This strip of land in Africa’s north-westernmost...
View ArticleWestern Sahara: Notes From Western Sahara - An Interview With Fatma El-Mehdi
Interview By Bhakti Shringarpure, 29 March 2012: When we think about our past, we can only find violence, but I think it is precisely this condition that makes one realize that what is important is...
View ArticleSaharawi heroic fight continues
The world community by and large either turns a blind eye to the annexation by Morocco of the Western Sahara, home to the Saharawi people, invaded, tortured, abused and forgotten or else cavorts openly...
View ArticleAustralians demand human rights for Western Sahara
Australians demand human rights for Western Sahara Sunday, 15 April 2012, 2:03 pm Press Release: AWSA The Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) organised on Friday 13 April 2012 in front of the...
View ArticleThe Western Sahara: forgotten first source of the Arab Spring
It's time the US and the UN stopped looking the other way while the west's ally Morocco occupies and abuses the Sarahawis Carne Ross Tuesday April 17 2012...
View ArticleW. Sahara: EP condemns repression of Saharawi people
(ANSAmed) - STRASBOURG, APRIL 19 - The European Parliament "condemns the ongoing repression of the Saharawi people in occupied territories". This is the message from the Strasbourg Assembly, where the...
View ArticleUN must include human rights component to MINURSO
By Malainin Lakhal 2012-04-19, Issue 581 Torture and other inhuman and degrading treatments, arbitrary arrest and detention, forced disappearance, the use of rape as a mean of intimidation, are current...
View ArticleDenmark is demanding action for Western Sahara
Posted May 25, 2012 By Peter Kenworthy , Africa Contact Denmark demanded action against the Kingdom of Morocco in occupied Western Sahara under Moroccan Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. UPR...
View Article“No other choice” than self-determination for Western Sahara
By Peter Kenworthy, Africa Contact “There is no other choice but self-determination,” says a lady interviewed in a new documentary about Western Sahara made by 31-year-old English independent...
View ArticleHuman rights in the occupied Western Sahara
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View ArticleNorwegian pension fund KLP divests from Total over Western Sahara concerns
GLOBAL – Norway's KLP pension fund company is removing French oil stock Total from its portfolio on ethical grounds due to the company's involvement in Western Sahara, the fund said. Jeanett Bergan,...
View ArticleAFRICAN NATIONS MAY CUT TIES WITH MOROCCO OVER W’SAHARA
AFRICAN countries may severe economic and diplomatic ties with Morocco over its continued occupation of Western Sahara territory. Rising from a three-day conference in Abuja Wednesday, which drew...
View ArticleSULE, FALANA, OTHERS URGE UN, AU TO ENFORCE W’SAHARA’S INDEPENDENCE
FROM various quarters Monday came the call that the time has come for both the United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) to enforce the independence of the Western Sahara.link: Guardian Nigeriaread more
View ArticleColonisation: Nigerian, European lawyers to drag Spain, France, Morocco to court
LAWYERS across the globe, especially in Nigeria and Europe, have concluded plans to drag Spain, France and Morroco to the European Human Rights Court, over illegal occupation of Western Sahara and...
View ArticleUN envoy for Western Sahara dispute launches ‘new phase’ in negotiations
30 October 2013 – The United Nations envoy dealing with Western Sahara today told the Security Council that he plans to return to the region in the coming weeks to pursue a new approach to ending the...
View ArticleLetter From Western Sahara, a Land Under Occupation
For nearly four decades, Sahrawis have struggled for independence from Morocco. There are growing fears of a return to arms. by Sharif Abdel Kouddous, November 4, 2013link: The Nationread more
View ArticleLiberation Delayed: the Independence of Western Sahara from Morocco
With the Saharawi People Decades since Spanish withdrawal Western Sahara remains under Moroccan control A long-delayed referendum on the independence of Saharawi from Morocco was the subject of an...
View ArticleFreedom for Western Sahara
From October 28 to October 30, 2013, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in collaboration with its allies in the civil society and Movements of Solidarity with the Saharawi people in Africa and across...
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