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Sahrawi Arab Republic President Sends Message to Counterpart[ANGOP] Luanda - A verbal message from the president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Abedel Aziz, to his Angolan counterpart, José Eduardo dos Santos, was transmitted Thursday in Luanda.
AllAfrica | 02-Feb-2012 17:55
Africa: The Western Sahara and North African People's Power
ISS (Tshwane/Pretoria)-In April 2011, the mandate of MINURSO-the United Nations (UN) Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's longest territorial dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi Polisario Front- was yet again renewed. Twenty one years since MINURSO was set up, closer attention ought to be placed on the Western Saharan dispute, one which has exhausted and frustrated a large number of UN special envoys.
AllAfrica | 26-Jan-2012 12:08
Western Sahara - Denial of Self-Determination and Human Rights Abuses
Fahamu (Oxford)-The case of the Western Sahara is a clear proof of failure of the international system that is governed by few powerful states: the five members of the Security Council who have turned the UN into the biggest non-democratic organisation in the world.
AllAfrica | 20-Jan-2012 13:15
Western Sahara: Western Sahara Rebels 'Detain Kidnap Suspects'
Western Saharan rebels have detained people implicated in the October kidnapping of three Europeans in Algeria, the APS agency quoted rebel officials as saying on Thursday.
AllAfrica | 15-Dec-2011 16:02
Saharawi Political Prisoners On Hunger Strike
The prisoners were taken from a group of more than 200 activists arrested by Moroccan authorities a year ago. And as Malainin Lakhal reports, Morocco has over 60 Saharawi prisoners of conscience, including eminent human rights defender Naama Asfari.
AllAfrica | 18-Nov-2011 14:13
Morocco: Western Sahara Kidnappings - Unpacking Country's Propaganda
Two Spaniards and an Italian working at a refugee camp in western Algeria were kidnapped in October. Malainin Lakhal writes about how Morocco has used the kidnappings in their propaganda against The Polisario Front.
AllAfrica | 11-Nov-2011 12:25
Sahrawi Camps Not 'Dangerous' - Visitor Rejects Morocco's Claim
Human rights campaigner Sabrina Tucci spent a month in the Sahrawi camps in Tindouf earlier this year. Despite the recent kidnapping of three aid workers, Tucci feels she can still confirm that "the camps are one of the safest places on the planet".
AllAfrica | 28-Oct-2011 12:58
Why Does Spain Need Morocco to Free the Hostages in Western Sahara?
Sahrawi refugee camps have been 'safe from any kind of security problems for the last three decades', writes Malainin Lakhal, arguing that Morocco could be behind the recent kidnapping of three humanitarian workers, in an attempt to challenge the Sahrawi national project and terrorise Western Sahara's supporters into stopping their humanitarian aid and political efforts.
AllAfrica | 28-Oct-2011 12:58
Fresh Political Storm for Western Sahara
Following the kidnap of three humanitarian workers from Sahrawi refugee camps on the southern Algerian border, Konstantina Isidoros is sceptical about Morocco's narrative about who is behind the attack.
AllAfrica | 28-Oct-2011 12:58
Morocco Continues Attacks On Western Sahara
Despite a media blackout and a ban on visits to the occupied Western Sahara, there is evidence of Moroccan authorities torturing many of the Saharawis they have detained. The commonest methods include beatings, electric shocks and threats of rape.
AllAfrica | 21-Oct-2011 12:23
Western Sahara - Africa Should Slap Sanctions On Country
A firm call for African Union member states to impose sanctions against Morocco until it abides by the United Nations mandate that affirms the people of Western Sahara's right to self-determination was made at the Pan African Parliament proceedings.
AllAfrica | 08-Oct-2011 10:43
A Young Girl's Life in a Refugee Camp
I spent my whole childhood, or at least until I was six, thinking that living in refugee camps was all that existed for any person,' writes Senia Bachir Abderahman, in an account that describes how her family came to live in the south-west Algerian desert, following the Morrocan occupation of Western Sahara in 1976. For Abderahman, 'home is a far-fetched, ideal, dream-come-true state of mind'.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Why I'm Not Married Yet
42-year old Hamdi would like to marry but he can't afford to, thanks to his economic situation - one that is shared by many other Sahrawis in the occupied territory.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Story of a Sheikh - Impunity for Moroccans
A Moroccan soldier on a motorbike who struck and killed a Sahrawi pedestrian has not been prosecuted for his actions.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
No Land Without Sex
A young woman is told she can only benefit from a land redistribution scheme if she provides sexual favours to the Moroccan official administrating it.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
A Young Man's Sadness
Tortured for taking part in political protest, a young Sahrawi has lost his childhood ambitions for a better life.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
A Repatriate's Plight
Returning home from Algeria, Salama finds that as a Sahrawi living in occupied territory, he has 'become a breathing person without a soul.'
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
No Future Under Moroccan Rule
Mehdi is employed and has a house and car. But he knows that he could lose it all if he openly shows allegiance to the Sahrawi cause.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Polisario Front Intervention Before the UN Special Committee of Decolonization
Morocco is to blame for the current stalemate in the talks to end the long dispute with Western Sahara, writes Ahmed Boukhari. Morocco has refused to discuss the nationalist Polisario Front's proposal for a process of self-determination that would include independence.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Palestine and Western Sahara - A comparative Analysis of Both Disputes and the Applicable Law
For four decades the UN has clearly and repeatedly affirmed the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, writes Juan Soroeta Liceras. Morocco's continued occupation of Western Sahara violates international law, just like the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
The Tea Struggle - Lessons From a Saharawi Ritual
Young Senia has spoken before delegates of the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee and met with politicians and NGOs in the UK, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Here she explains parallels between the Sahrawi tea ritual and the people's quest for freedom.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
'Do Not Forget us' - Spotlight On a Sahrawi Prisoner of Conscience
Enaama Asfari's persecution by Moroccan authorities, recounted here by his wife Claude Mangin, illustrates the horrible extent to which the occupying power will go to quash Sahrawi resistance. But true freedom fighters will not give up until they liberate their homeland.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
The Dynamics of Repression and Resistance
Morocco's repression of Sahrawi resistance through beatings, detention, torture and disappearance has helped create and sustain a new generation of nationalist activists demanding independence, writes Jacob Mundy. All the major dissident Sahrawi civil society groups are led by past victims of repression.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Morocco Versus Polisario in 2011
Morocco versus Polisario: a Political Interpretation[/url] provided one of the first analytical insights into Morocco's budding 'propaganda war' regarding its illegal invasion and occupation. Since 1994, Morocco has rapidly increased its natural resource exploitation of the Western Sahara, which also breaks international law.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Non-Violent Resistance - the Sahrawi People Under Moroccan Occupation
Mohamed Brahim, Enaama Asfari, El Ouali Amidane and Mustapha Abdedayem, alongside some other writers who have requested anonymity in this special edition, are indigenous Sahrawi living in the area occupied by Morocco. Their contributions provide insights into life under occupation.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Malainin Lakhal - Spotlight On a Sahrawi Activist
Malainin Lakhal made the dangerous escape journey through the Moroccan Berm 11 years ago. Malainin's contribution here provides an insight to that perilous escape journey, which many Sahrawi activists are forced to make when their lives are in extreme danger from the security forces.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
34 Years and Waiting
Nikolaj Nielsen undertook a clandestine journey into the Moroccan Occupied Territory of Western Sahara to meet some leading activists and students of the Sahrawi human rights movement.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
A History of the Western Sahara Conflict
The Australia Western Sahara Association provides a short history of Morocco's military invasion of Western Sahara and its effects on the populace.
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
The Sahrawi of Western Sahara - the Last Colony in Africa
The Western Sahara is the last country in Africa that has not been correctly decolonised - instead, the right of the Sahrawi people to post-colonial independence has been frozen in time,' writes Konstantina Isidoros in introducing this special edition of Pambazuka News. 'If we are to take the rule of international law as our guiding foundation, then Morocco has blatantly defied international law twice, by its illegal invasion of someone else's sovereign territory and by its illegal occupation that still continues today.'
AllAfrica | 07-Oct-2011 14:01
Morocco: Govt Proposes Solution to Western Sahara Dispute
Morocco has reiterated to the United Nations that it is ready to intensify talks to resolve the dispute over the Western Sahara on the basis of autonomy.
AllAfrica | 28-Sep-2011 06:37
Polisario Front Has No Deal With Drug Traffickers - Envoy
Ambassador of the Saharawi Republic to Nigeria Oubi Bachir has denied that the independent movement in the Western Sahara, Polisario Front, has any link with drug traffickers from Mali and Niger.
AllAfrica | 20-Sep-2011 14:43
Former Polisario Official Exposes Before UNHRC Human Rights Abuses in Tindouf Camps
Zighem Bayat, a former polisario official, laid bare, Thursday before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the human rights violations spreading in the polisario-run camps of Tindouf (Algeria's south-west).
AllAfrica | 16-Sep-2011 16:25
International Democratic Centre Draws HRC Attention to Non-Respect for Freedom of Expression in Polisario Camps
The International Democratic Centre (IDC) drew, on Thursday, the attention of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) to the non-respect for freedom of expression in the polisario-run camps of Tindouf (Algeria's south-west).
AllAfrica | 16-Sep-2011 16:25
West Africa: Polisario's Involvement in Drug Trafficking in the Sahel Exposed By U.S. Experts
The clashes between gangs of drug trafickers close to the Polisario in the Malian-Algerian borders reveal the Tindouf-based separatists' schemes to lay hand on the illegal drug market in the Sahelo-Saharan region, US experts warned.
AllAfrica | 15-Sep-2011 15:46
Over 550 Polisario Mercenaries Caught by Libya's NTC - Website
No less than 556 polisario mercenaries fighting for Gaddafi were arrested by the rebels of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC), the online magazine, the geotribune.com, quoted an NTC source as saying.
AllAfrica | 26-Aug-2011 07:01
Morocco: Autonomy, 'Interesting Way to Achieve Definitive Solution to Sahara Issue,' Pre. of Chilean Senate Says
Morocco's autonomy proposal is "an interesting way to achieve a definitive solution to the Sahara issue," President of the Chilean Senate Guido Gilardi said, on Wednesday in Rabat.
AllAfrica | 28-Jul-2011 15:36
Sahrawi Associations Stage Sit-in in Solidarity With Activist
Several Sahrawi associations staged, on Tuesday in Nouakchott, a sit-in in solidarity with Sahrawi activist Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud who is also holding an open sit-in before the UNHCR local bureau.
AllAfrica | 28-Jul-2011 15:31
Western Sahara: Bangladeshi General to Head UN Force
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Abdul Hafiz of Bangladesh as the Force Commander of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara (MINURSO).
AllAfrica | 27-Jul-2011 22:02
Morocco: More Talks on Western Sahara Planned
The next informal talks on the Sahara will take place after the fall session of the U.N. General Assembly, said Thursday the U.N. Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Christopher Ross, at the end of the eighth round of informal talks held in Manhasset.
AllAfrica | 22-Jul-2011 20:21
Morocco: Normalization of Moroccan-Algerian Relations Likely to Help Settle Sahara Issue - FM Says
Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri said, on Thursday night in Manhasset (New York suburbs), that the ongoing normalization process of the Moroccan-Algerian relations is likely to "contribute to the resolution" of the Sahara issue.
AllAfrica | 22-Jul-2011 20:19
Western Sahara: Parties 'Deepen Discussions' Over Conflict
The parties to the Western Sahara dispute, Morocco and the Frente Polisario, have concluded another round of United Nations-backed informal talks in New York during which they continued to deepen their discussions on the issue of the electoral corps and mechanisms for self-determination.
AllAfrica | 22-Jul-2011 19:56
Western Sahara: New Talks on Dispute With Morocco Planned
United Nations-backed informal talks between the parties to the Western Sahara dispute, Morocco and the Frente Polisario, will be held next week in New York, the world body announced today.
AllAfrica | 14-Jul-2011 19:41
Western Sahara: Parties to Conflict Discuss Self-Determination Vote
Parties to the conflict in Western Sahara continued to deepen their discussions on the electoral mechanisms for self-determination during three days of United Nations-backed informal talks in New York, according to a communiqué issued at today's end of the meeting.
AllAfrica | 08-Jun-2011 17:49
UN to Host Meeting of Parties to Western Sahara Dispute
The seventh round of United Nations-backed informal talks between the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara will be held in New York next month, the world body announced today.
AllAfrica | 02-Jun-2011 04:03
Africa: Western Sahara: Winning the 'war on words' and Avoiding Actual War
Profiling the words of Senia Bachir Abderahman, a Saharawi activist from occupied Western Sahara, Peter Kenworthy writes of the need for genuine international support for Saharawi self-determination.
AllAfrica | 13-May-2011 14:39
Western Sahara: Security Council Extends UN Mission for Another Year
The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Western Sahara and organizing a referendum on self-determination for the people of the territory.
AllAfrica | 27-Apr-2011 19:57