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NGOs Deplore Polisario’s Slavery Practices in Tindouf Camps
Morocco World News
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September 13, 2025
A number of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are raising concerns about the persistent ongoing inhumane conditions in the Tindouf camps. Taking part in the session of the 60th UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, the...
Colonialism, post-colonialism and Western Sahara: rebuilding Africa's fractured geographies
Atalayar
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September 12, 2025
Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...
Post-Coloniality and Western Sahara: Stitching Back Together Africa’s Broken Geographies
Morocco World News
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September 12, 2025
The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...
Western Sahara: Algeria Dealt New Blow as UN Envoy De Mistura Refutes its ‘Observer’ Role Claim
Morocco World News
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September 9, 2025
Rabat – UN Envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura has directly challenged Algeria’s official narrative, refuting Algiers’ long-standing claim that it plays merely an “observer” role in the Sahara dispute. De Mistura made his remarks in an...
NATO Delegation in Occupied Melilla Escalates Spain’s Colonial Provocation
Morocco World News
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September 13, 2025
Marrakech – For the first time in its history, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will descend on Melilla, an occupied Moroccan city, on September 26-27. The visit, engineered by Fernando Gutiérrez Díaz de Otazu, a retired general, senator for the...
Sahrawi President appeals to African and international community to support climate projects in Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) September 08, 2025 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, in his address at the second African Climate Summit held in Addis Ababa, appealed to the African and...
Zuma’s Morocco Visit Reshapes South African Political Terrain on Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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September 8, 2025
Marrakech – A comprehensive policy paper published earlier this month reveals how former South African President Jacob Zuma’s July visit to Morocco has significantly impacted South Africa’s political landscape. The research, conducted by Driss...
A State is not Built with Rhetoric Alone—with H.A. Hellyer: CR Amplified ep. 5
The Cairo Review
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September 13, 2025
Israel’s war on Gaza is approaching the end of its second year. As global accusations of genocide mount, European states have increasingly voiced support for recognizing a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Arab states have been pushing for the...
Analysts: Polisario clings to obsolete 1988 settlement plan as Morocco’s autonomy proposal gains ground
Hespress
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September 9, 2025
As the international debate over the Moroccan Sahara increasingly revolves around Morocco’s autonomy plan, analysts say the Polisario Front continues to rely on the 1988 U.N.–OAU Settlement Plan, a framework they describe as outdated and no longer...
"Kingdom of Morocco as Model of Terrorist State": New book documents the crimes of "Makhzen" in Western Sahara and world
Sahara Press Service
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Algiers, 1 September 2025 (SPS) - A new book titled "The Kingdom of Morocco as a Model of a Terrorist State... A Long History of Comprehensive Terrorism in Western Sahara and the World" by Sahrawi writer Sayed Hamdi Yahdhih has been released. The...
Human rights activists at UN Council expose development denial, slavery in Tindouf camps
Hespress
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September 13, 2025
Human rights advocates have presented several testimonies at the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, exposing the dire conditions of Sahrawis in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algerian soil. They pointed to the denial...
Polisario, Advocates Fume as Morocco’s Southern Provinces Attract Global Investors
Morocco World News
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September 2, 2025
Rabat – As foreign companies continue to explore opportunities in Morocco’s southern provinces, the separatist Polisario Front and its dwindling cohort of global advocates are growing desperate to halt this momentum before it gathers more steam....
Iran’s Resistance Axis: Enter the Polisario Front
Townhall
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September 5, 2025
Iran and its Resistance Axis suffered heavy blows since October 7, 2023: Syria’s Assad regime lost, Hezbollah decimated, the Houthis degraded, and Hamas annihilated. Yet the Axis is not shrinking. Its latest addition is the Polisario Front, which...
Western Sahara: Why Algeria Supports The Sahrawi’s Right To Govern Themselv
The Nigerian Voice
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Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-west Africa. It lies south of Morocco, north-east of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. It was formerly known as Spanish Sahara, until Spain’s withdrawal in 1975. The region has since been claimed...
Western Sahara: why Algeria supports the Sahrawi’s right to govern themselves
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-west Africa. It lies south of Morocco, north-east of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. It was formerly known as Spanish Sahara, until Spain’s withdrawal in 1975. The region has since been claimed...
American Global Monitoring Center organizes international symposium on Western Sahara conflict
Sahara Press Service
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New York (United States), August 21, 2025 (SPS) - The American Global Monitoring Center is organizing an international symposium in New York City on Friday titled "Morocco's Occupation of Western Sahara as a Threat to Regional and International...
Former South African president defends Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara
Atalayar
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August 22, 2025
A united Africa Morocco and South Africa move forward in their shared history The Polisario, to the dustbin of history Former South African President Jacob Zuma has marked a turning point in the history of the African National Congress (ANC) by...
Zuma praises Ghana’s support for Morocco in Western Sahara dispute
IOL
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Former president Jacob Zuma has described the MK Party as “the only true hope for the last stage of the total liberation of the South African people” and a “genuine continuation of the liberation struggle”. Zuma, the MK Party leader, was...
Minister of Education and Vocational Training calls on students to pursue scientific disciplines
Sahara Press Service
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Shaheed Al-Hafed, August 30, 2025 (SPS) - The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Mr. Abdulkader Taleb Omar, urged students who passed the baccalaureate exam to pursue...
The diary of the red prince
Qantara.de
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Religion, the monarchy and Western Sahara – those in Morocco who avoid these three quasi-official taboos can live a politically carefree life. However, for several years now, a prominent member of the Moroccan royal family, of all people, cannot...