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Two Weeks in Review – 14 – 27 July 2025

Two Weeks in Review – 14 – 27 July 2025

In the last two weeks, a range of topics were covered in EJIL Talk!, from international criminal law and human rights, to the rule of non-intervention and the sources of international law. We also have the latest installment of EJIL: the Podcast!...

Eurafrique reloaded

Eurafrique reloaded

In October 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with great pomp by the Moroccan monarch, Mohammed VI. This visit had been preceded a few weeks earlier by the decision of Macron to (openly) recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the...

These are all the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list

These are all the countries currently on the Foreign Office ‘do not travel’ list

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Morocco strengthens its presence in English-speaking Africa

Morocco strengthens its presence in English-speaking Africa

Greater presence in English-speaking Africa Growing support for Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara Opportunities in English-speaking Africa As part of its new diplomatic strategy in Africa, launched since its return to the African Union in 2017,...

Beyond Deterrence: Honduras’ Proactive Stance on Drug Trafficking and Environmental Crime

Beyond Deterrence: Honduras’ Proactive Stance on Drug Trafficking and Environmental Crime

With over three decades of distinguished service, Army Major General Roosevelt Hernández Aguilar, serves as the chairman of the Honduran Armed Forces’ Joint Chiefs of Staff. During his extensive career, marked by his participation in critical...

Green Colonialism and African Futures: Interrogating the Just Transition from Below

Green Colonialism and African Futures: Interrogating the Just Transition from Below

Over the past few years, the phrase “just transition” has travelled across climate policy corridors, from international negotiations to national energy plans. It suggests a promise: of fairness, of repair, of moving away from fossil fuels without...

Settler Colonialism in the Light of Fanon

Settler Colonialism in the Light of Fanon

A century after their birth, the ghosts of Cabral, Malcolm, Lumumba, and Fanon still haunt the western empire, demanding not remembrance, but revolution. Originally published in Said Bouamama's blog. The year 2024 was the centenary of the birth of...

Tifariti University takes part in academic symposium on crimes against humanity

Tifariti University takes part in academic symposium on crimes against humanity

Quito (Ecuador), July 22, 2025 (SPS) – A symposium titled "Crimes Against Humanity and the Resistance of Oppressed Peoples Worldwide" was held at the Central University of Ecuador, with the participation of the Africa, Middle East, and Asia...

Phosphorus Depletion Is An Investment Opportunity

Phosphorus Depletion Is An Investment Opportunity

Phosphorus is integral to agriculture and human life. We can’t grow any of our food without it. Of the phosphorus fertilizers applied, perhaps 20% ends up consumed in the final product. Large amounts will be lost to runoff, ending up in our water...

After the energy crisis: Policy responses in the Iberian Peninsula

After the energy crisis: Policy responses in the Iberian Peninsula

Toggle section navigation Sections Print Follow the authors Gonzalo Escribano Ana Fontoura Gouveia João Fachada Ignacio Urbasos Arbeloa See More Executive summary Despite being less dependent on Russian fossil fuels than other members of the...

Morocco Highlights Southern Provinces At Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum

Morocco Highlights Southern Provinces At Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum

The Moroccan delegation at the forum Morocco played a key role at the Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025, held from 21 to 23 July in Oeiras, Portugal, and dedicated to maritime innovation, port decarbonisation and transcontinental cooperation. This...

Morocco Advances Digital Sovereignty with 500 MW Green Data Hub

Morocco Advances Digital Sovereignty with 500 MW Green Data Hub

Morocco is embarking on an ambitious project to construct a 500 megawatt data centre powered entirely by renewable energy in Dakhla, Western Sahara, according to digital transition minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni. The facility aims to bolster...

Lessons from a historic act of disarmament in Kurdistan

Lessons from a historic act of disarmament in Kurdistan

On July 11, in the hills of Northern Iraq, a scene unfolded that would shake even the most experienced disarmament activist. Walking down a steep clearing to a makeshift staging area surrounded by several hundred community members and supporters,...

Morocco highlights the value of its southern provinces at the Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025 held in Portugal.

Morocco played a key role at the Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025, held from 21 to 23 July in Oeiras, Portugal, and dedicated to maritime innovation, port decarbonisation and transcontinental cooperation. This event brought together institutional...

Morocco highlights value of southern provinces at Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025  

Morocco highlights value of southern provinces at Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025  

Accra, July 25, GNA-Morocco played a key role at the Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2025, held from 21 to 23 July in Oeiras, Portugal, and dedicated to maritime innovation, port decarbonisation and transcontinental cooperation. This event brought...

Quishile Charan To Attend Summer School In Balkans Thanks To A Grant From Tautai

Quishile Charan To Attend Summer School In Balkans Thanks To A Grant From Tautai

Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa are pleased to announce that Quishile Charan will be attending the 2025 Summer School | Revolutionary Roads. Destination: Comradeship, in the Balkans in August,...

Pan-African vision: MK party backs strategic alliance with Morocco

Pan-African vision: MK party backs strategic alliance with Morocco

In a bold move to reshape African geopolitics and foster deeper regional cooperation, the Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has announced its support for a strategic partnership between South Africa and the Kingdom of Morocco. This alignment is framed...

A new era of Morocco-UK collaboration?

A new era of Morocco-UK collaboration?

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...

Companies involved in plundering Sahrawi wealth are perpetuating colonial situation

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...

Congress to Consider Bills That Would Gut Oversight of US Arms Sales

Congress to Consider Bills That Would Gut Oversight of US Arms Sales

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. As early as next Tuesday, Congress will vote on two bills that will make it easier for the U.S. government and U.S. arms makers to...

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