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Morocco and the plundering of Western Sahara, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf
Premium Times
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July 9, 2025
I have just completed reading the 2025 Saharawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental (SONREP) Report, titled “Sustainable for Whom? Western Sahara Renewable Energy and Environmental Justice under Occupational.” Its forty three pages...
Sahrawi diplomat responds to Moroccan allegations against the Polisario Front in the British Telegraph
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid Elhafed (Sahrawi Republic) 08 July 2025 (SPS)- Adala-UK and The Panafrikanist websites published an article Today signed by Sahrawi diplomat Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, in which he responds to an opinion piece by a certain Robert Clark,...
Rights groups sound alarm over alleged exploitation of Sahrawi children in Polisario’s 'holidays for peace' program
Hespress
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July 8, 2025
The controversial “Holidays for Peace” program, overseen by the Polisario Front and supported by sympathetic European organizations, is under fire from Moroccan and Sahrawi rights activists who accuse the initiative of using Sahrawi children for...
Report: China, Russia Likely to Recognize Moroccan Sovereignty Over Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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June 28, 2025
Marrakech – A recent report by the Migration Research Institute identifies Morocco as “the most stable country in the entire Maghreb” and indicates major diplomatic developments may soon reshape the Western Sahara dispute. Despite persistent...
Despite Mounting Evidence, Bolton Downplays Polisario’s Terrorism Against Morocco
Morocco World News
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June 30, 2025
Rabat – Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton– a vocal advocate for Polisario and its separatism claims targeting Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara – recently attempted to downplay Polisario’s terrorist...
Experts say Algeria is using Polisario terror to drag the region into war
Hespress
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June 28, 2025
Fresh rocket attacks near Smara have sparked strong reactions from Moroccan experts, who accuse Algeria of fueling violence through its support of the Polisario Front. According to researchers in political science and international relations,...
International Calls to Label Polisario as Terrorists Intensify Amid Scrutiny of Separatists’ Violent Past
Morocco World News
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June 13, 2025
Rabat – International appeals are mounting to confront Polisario’s violent past and ongoing threats to regional stability. Igacio Ortiz published a new opinion piece on June 10 in La Provincia, in which he recalled Polisario’s terrorist attacks...
Sand and dust storms pose growing threat to global health and economy, WMO reports
Muser Press
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July 11, 2025
Sand and dust storms are affecting hundreds of millions of people across more than 150 countries, with rising consequences for public health, transportation, and agriculture, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization...
A new era of Morocco-UK collaboration?
African Business
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July 9, 2025
Speaking in Rabat earlier this month, the UK’s foreign secretary David Lammy announced that his government would now be backing Morocco’s claims to sovereignty over the Western Sahara. Lammy said “the UK has chosen to endorse autonomy within the...
Dressed and underestimated: sandstorms and dust wreaks havoc through borders
The European Times
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July 10, 2025
This is how the sand and dust come into the atmosphere on an annual basis according to the world meteorological organization (Wmo)) report On storms that disperse these particles through the borders of the whole world. Reports from the United...
Companies involved in plundering Sahrawi wealth are perpetuating colonial situation
Sahara Press Service
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Berlin, 8 July 2025 (SPS) – German writer and international studies researcher Ramona Schnall emphasized that European companies complicit in looting the wealth of the Sahrawi people through illegal agreements with the Moroccan occupation not only...
Overlooked and underestimated: Sand and dust storms wreak havoc across borders
UN News
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July 10, 2025
That’s how much sand and dust enters the atmosphere on an annual basis according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s annual report on the storms which scatter such particles across borders worldwide. The UN weather agency’s reports...
Hussain Al Nowais Highlights AMEA Power’s Role in Morocco’s Clean Energy...
Somers Point Sentinel - New Jersey
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July 10, 2025
In a powerful step toward reinforcing the global shift to clean energy, Hussain Al Nowais, Chairman of AMEA Power, has emphasized his company’s strategic collaboration with Morocco’s YNNA Group in launching a landmark renewable energy project: a...
Australia finally finished phosphate imports
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 7, 2025
The last remaining importer of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara in Australia has announced that it will no longer purchase the conflict mineral. The above picture shows the bulk vessel Clipper Isadora on its way through the Suez Canal,...
‘Sky is not the limit’: Morocco Ambassador highlights expanding India ties across trade, defence and terrorism
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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July 10, 2025
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Morocco's Ambassador to India, Mohamed Maliki, underscored the expanding scope of India-Morocco relations during a wide-ranging interaction in the national capital. Highlighting deepening cooperation in trade,...
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution. Originally published in...
HRC59: Civil society presents key takeaways from the session
International Service for Human Rights
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July 8, 2025
We join others who have expressed grave concern about the UN’s financial situation throughout the session. We deplore that we are in this position primarily due to the failure of some States to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time....
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today...
Black Agenda Report
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September 7, 2025
A depiction of the 1836 Battle of Constantine in Algeria. As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolutionary violence in return....
Promise and pressure of cost-competitive green hydrogen
ESI Africa
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July 9, 2025
The economic feasibility of exporting green hydrogen from Africa to Europe by 2030 is in question. The study Mapping the cost competitiveness of African green hydrogen imports to Europe provides some answers. As at December 2023, Africa’s green...
What happened to the Dakhla bitcoin wind park?
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 2, 2025
In 2018, headlines announced that a massive wind-powered data centre for blockchain computing - combining renewable energy with next-generation finance - was about to rise from the sands near Dakhla, in occupied Western Sahara. The project, led by...