• Companies that want to be perceived as taking human rights responsibly, should not bid on a large tender that will connect Morocco's illegal energy production in Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid, WSRW warns. (wsrw.org)
  • Up to 81% of all land that the Moroccan government has allocated for new, gigantic plans for renewable energy, green hydrogen and ammonia, is located outside of Morocco's international borders, in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Adidas acknowledged on Friday that the design for its new jersey collection for Algeria's national soccer team was inspired by Morocco's zellige mosaic pattern, resolving a dispute with the Moroccan government that had accused the sport apparel company of "cultural appropriation" of its heritage. (wtrf.com)
  • Morocco's Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication demanded last month that Adidas pull the new collection off the market alleging that the design on the jerseys of the rival North African team depicts a traditional mosaic of colored earthenware tiles, known in Morocco as zellige. (wtrf.com)
  • Un documentaire anglais explore l'immense richesse musicale du Maroc English documentary "Morocco gateway to Africa" explores Morocco's musical and cultural diversity. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Western Sahara clouds Morocco`s return to African Union RFI reports on Morocco's intention to rejoin the AU and the complications with AU recognition of the Western Sahara and the Polisario Front. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Morocco's Foreign Ministry issued a strongly worded statement last month deploring what it said was Spain's decision to admit Ghali under a false identity without informing Morocco, warning of repercussions for relations between the countries. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Christian Juhl, a green-left MP that initiated the motion, told EUobserver his peers were all worried that Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara was getting worse. (euobserver.com)
  • However, the interests at play in the war go far beyond Morocco's borders. (atlasofwars.com)
  • Since Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the endorsement of Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara has been reiterated. (atlasofwars.com)
  • Former colonizer of the territory, Spain, which had handed over the territory of Western Sahara to the invading Moroccan forces in 1975, once again in March 2022 rescinded recognition of SADR and accepted Morocco's claim of sovereignty over the territory. (atlasofwars.com)
  • Morocco's Noor, Egypt's Benban, and the Xlinks Morocco-UK proposal all show how much renewable energy North Africa has to offer. (njayuk.com)
  • The findings of this survey, entitled Media Ownership Monitor Morocco (MOM), and the first database about Morocco's media are now available to the public at www.maroc.mom-rsf.org - a trilingual website (French, Arabic and English) that was unveiled in Casablanca today. (rsf.org)
  • Casablanca, 17 November 2017 - According to the MOM's findings, nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco's most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. (rsf.org)
  • Morocco has since 1975 repeatedly refused to comply with the peace plans under the auspices of the UN, the African Union, and more than one hundred Security Council resolutions. (vest-sahara.no)
  • They stem largely from a dispute over the Western Sahara, a territory annexed by Morocco in 1975. (wtrf.com)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • The North African neighbours have been locked in a bitter rivalry for decades over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which was a Spanish colony until 1975. (mailerlite.com)
  • As part of the deal, Morocco , which is home to a small but centuries-old Jewish community and has long welcomed Israeli tourists, secured U.S. recognition of its 1975 annexation of the disputed region of Western Sahara. (westernjournal.com)
  • The German insurance company Allianz goes all in when it politically defends the brutal Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The US government's approval of Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara came in exchange for its normalization of diplomatic relations with Israel on the same day. (atlasofwars.com)
  • A survey by the Moroccan news website Le Desk and the international media freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has identified the Moroccan media sector's leading players and their interests outside the media. (rsf.org)
  • The truth is that the enemies of the Internet keep it under control, says Julien Pain of Reporters Without Borders. (dw.com)
  • Secure Computing, for example, sold Tunisia a program to censor the Internet, including the Reporters Without Borders Web site. (dw.com)
  • Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Moroccan authorities to stop harassing Omar Radi, an investigative reporter and human right defender who has been summoned for questioning by security officials in Casablanca today. (rsf.org)
  • You support our activities when you buy our books of photos: all of the profits go to Reporters Without Borders. (rsf.org)
  • The real reason the EU can`t stop human smuggling from Libya Independent Libyan academic Mustafa Fetouri argues that the European Union mission will not be able to put an end to human smuggling on the Libya coasts as long as "there is no strong central government in Libya with effective coast guard forces capable of patrolling the country`s 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles) of ocean shoreline. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Two were halted and a third fled back across the Libyan border. (africacenter.org)
  • The national as well as official language is Arabic, with its eastern and western Libyan colloquial variety being generally used in familiar, everyday life situations and the modern standard one being employed in formal settings and for administrative purposes. (cap-lmu.de)
  • Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah said his government is ready to hold general elections this year. (vifindia.org)
  • 8 June - Algeria suspends a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain, and bans all imports from Spain, amid a disagreement over the Spanish government's position on the disputed Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Decades-old tensions between Morocco and Algeria have deepened in recent years. (wtrf.com)
  • In 2022, 38 countries had a negative trade balance in agricultural products, with Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Angola leading the ranking with more than $3bn lost over the year. (tralac.org)
  • Young refugees in Algeria camps feel betrayed by EU over Western Sahara, threaten attacks on Morocco, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon makes rare trip to 'forgotten' conflict. (euobserver.com)
  • It borders Egypt to the east, Sudan to the south-east, Chad to the south, Niger to the south-west, Algeria to the west and Tunisia to the north-west, while facing the Mediterranean Sea all along her northern shores. (cap-lmu.de)
  • Semi-desert heights are found around Benghazi and along the Algeria and Chad border. (cap-lmu.de)
  • The contract will not radically change the military balance between Morocco and Algeria but has been signed just as hostilities are resuming against Polisario in Western Sahara. (africaintelligence.com)
  • Mohammed VI's army is about to place a second order for armed Bayraktar TB2 drones manufactured by Turkey's Baykar as tensions mount with Western Sahara and neighbouring Algeria. (africaintelligence.com)
  • With diplomatic relations with Algeria suspended since August, Morocco has been going ahead with changes to the arrangements for protecting the very strategic border with its neighbour, in part by conducting large-scale mine-clearing operations in order to recover farmable land. (africaintelligence.com)
  • A France-based association of friends of the Saharawi Arab Republic (the disputed territory of Western Sahara) is preparing to send a delegation to camps in Algeria to meet refugees and Polisario front leaders. (africaintelligence.com)
  • Western Sahara, disputed between Morocco and the Saharawi people's Polisario Front, is listed among the UN's non-self-governing territories. (time.com)
  • Christian Democrat Youth (KrFU) of Norway supports the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence and demand that Norway recognize the Western Saharan republic. (vest-sahara.no)
  • The Sahrawi people are entitled to a referendum to decide the country's future, but Morocco refuses to give them that possibility. (vest-sahara.no)
  • The map affirms the Sahrawi Republic's claim over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, but also draws Morocco up to the de facto border, which conflicts with both countries' claim over the land. (axenewsroom.com)
  • In 1991, a truce was negotiated with the promise on a referendum on the right to self-determination of Western Saharan inhabitants, the Sahrawi. (lu.se)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • Morocco, Western Sahara - M oroccan forces illegally occupying the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) have come under repeated bombardment by the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) . (atlasofwars.com)
  • It separates the areas occupied by Morocco on the coast-side from the inland territory that is under the control of the Polisario Front (PF), recognized by the UN General Assembly as the Sahrawi people's international representative. (atlasofwars.com)
  • The ceasefire had been secured in August 1991 after the UN Security Council (UNSC) established the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) with the promise of fulfilling the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination. (atlasofwars.com)
  • 22:29 Nicaragua has released almost 3,000 prisoners, the government revealed, amid accusations it was not taking measures to stop the spread of the deadly virus in the country's penitentiaries. (dw.com)
  • The army is responsible for external security, guarding the country's borders, and has some domestic security responsibilities. (state.gov)
  • General Diendere and his accomplices will answer for all the offences of which they are accused," the country's interim government said in a statement, adding that a "commission of inquiry" was already "hard at work" investigating the coup. (africacenter.org)
  • Set to be developed in Morocco, the proposed 3.6-gigawatt power plant proves that North Africa can be a leader in the renewable energy industry. (njayuk.com)
  • Before Israel's establishment in 1948, Morocco was home to a large Jewish population, many of whose ancestors migrated to North Africa from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition. (westernjournal.com)
  • According to some experts, Morocco uses the tactic of alowing migrants into Ceuta as an instrument of pressure on Madrid, which angered Rabat last month by admitting the leader of Western Sahara's rebel Polisario Front to a Spanish hospital. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Juhl hopes that Denmark will take up the vacant leadership role in defending Western Sahara's interests in the EU. (euobserver.com)
  • In November 2005, Morocco began censoring all political Web sites advocating Western Sahara's independence. (dw.com)
  • The 'New Colonialism': the case of Western Sahara Senior International Program Officer (Africa) at War on Want Tom Lebert writes on permits given to British companies by the Moroccan government to explore for oil and gas in the Western Sahara. (jadaliyya.com)
  • Analyst Shannon Ebrahim said to Ahval News that " South Africa must stop shipments of arms that are later sold to countries at wa r", referring to shipments of ammunition to Turkey, which has maintained a presence in Syria and Libya, despite the UN's call to reduce hostilities in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (atalayar.com)
  • As the insurgents continued to advance, the government called upon the Army of Africa, the only combat-tested regulars in the largely short-service conscript Spanish Army. (sofmag.com)
  • The Melilla government delegation spokesman said 86 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa broke into the enclave, located about 300km east of Ceuta, early on Tuesday, but a larger group had been blocked by Moroccan police. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Keen to reassert Turkey's international status, and also to help Turkish companies to break into the African market, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been spearheading a major diplomatic and business drive in Africa. (africaintelligence.com)
  • Commentary on the news, culture, sports and current events of sub-Saharan Africa from someone who's lived there. (blogspot.com)
  • The jersey dispute has been favorably resolved to underline "the pivotal role Morocco plays in the region in defending the intangible cultural heritage in the face of cultural appropriation attempts," he said. (wtrf.com)
  • Amid an ongoing dispute on the EU-Morocco trade agreement, the Danish parliament on Thursday (2 June) voted unanimously to warn Danish companies and municipalities from trading with Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • Throughout its impact studies, relations with the Moroccan government and partners, and a recent announcement of arrival of windmills to occupied Western Sahara, Engie has shown a total disregard for the UN's approach to the conflict. (wsrw.org)
  • The Norwegian government has recently changed its rhetoric with regard to the conflict and no longer wants to call Western Sahara occupied. (vest-sahara.no)
  • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now calls the conflict an "unresolved legal situation", even though the UN treats the country like a decolonizing project and defines Western Sahara as occupied. (vest-sahara.no)
  • The KrFU's national board agrees with Jan Egeland, the UN's special adviser for conflict resolution, who has declared that the conflict in Western Sahara is the conflict in the world which most urgently needs to be resolved. (vest-sahara.no)
  • A Japanese-Canadian vessel that transported conflict phosphate from occupied Western Sahara was yesterday received by a floating protest in New Zealand. (wsrw.org)
  • The bay of Mogán at Gran Canary Island will next week be covered in conflict sand from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Certain borders are already sources of major global conflict, and MrBeast appeared to take some divisive stances by depicting them on the map. (axenewsroom.com)
  • Deze blog is bedoeld voor commentaren over het Israëlisch-Palestijnse conflict en de berichtgeving en discussie hierover in Nederland. (blogspot.com)
  • This transcends migration, we are talking about (Spain's) territorial integrity, sovereignty and borders. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The United States in December recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara territory. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • On December 10, 2020, the Donald Trump administration in the US announced that "the United States recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory. (atlasofwars.com)
  • Morocco has demanded that Israel recognise its sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara before Rabat opens an embassy in Tel Aviv, the news outlet Axios has reported, citing four current and former Israeli officials involved in the matter. (vifindia.org)
  • Yet the federal government's continued expressions of its commitment to border security only serve to highlight the shortcomings of this commitment and to spark opposition to long- overdue immigration reform. (truthout.org)
  • NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via SEAPRWire.com) -- BIMI International Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: BIMI) ("BIMI" or the "Company"), a healthcare products and services provider, today announced that on June 9, 2022, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with Mr. Fnu Oudom, the Chairman of the Board of the. (asiaexcite.com)
  • SHANGHAI, Jun 10, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency ('ApexBrasil') joins hands with Inter-American Development Bank and the Federal Government of Brasil to organize the 5th Brasil Investment Forum ('BIF' or the 'forum'), the largest foreign investment forum in Latin America, from 14. (asiaexcite.com)
  • TOKYO, Jun 10, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems), a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group company, will include wireless LAN connectivity as a standard feature on its ZSX Series and ZS Series of residential-use room air conditioners for the European market. (asiaexcite.com)
  • SINGAPORE, June 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via SEAPRWire.com) -- UP Fintech Holding Limited (NASDAQ: TIGR) ("UP Fintech" or the "Company"), a leading online brokerage firm focusing on global investors, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. (asiaexcite.com)
  • The surge in arrivals comes at a time of increased tension between Spain and Morocco over the fate of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, who is in hospital in Spain. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The Polisario Front wants the Western Sahara to be an independent state rather than part of Morocco. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The judicial activism in a relatively uncharted area in this field, external relations, was analyzed through a qualitative case study of the CJEU case Polisario Front , concerning the application of a EU trade agreement to the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Yet, at the same time, U.S. customs policy on goods imports from other territories is also inconsistent: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has explicit guidelines that goods imported from the West Bank must be labelled as such, while goods that enter the United States from other occupied zones, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, encounter no customs interference. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • For example, Russia occupies territories the United States and European Union recognize as parts of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, yet Crimea is the only Russian-occupied territory subject to Western sanctions. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • There is no data for the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Western Sahara. (fairobserver.com)
  • Morocco is ranked 133rd out of 180 countries and territories in RSF's 2020 World Press Freedom Index . (rsf.org)
  • For most global users, Google Maps separates Western Sahara from Morocco with a dashed line and uses the same font as sovereign countries in its label, but in Morocco, Western Sahara disappears. (time.com)
  • Hundreds of other potential migrants stood on the Moroccan side of the fence that separates the Spanish enclave from Morocco. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Images have appeared of highly controversial windmills on Canary Islands, in transit for Engie's project in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Other units were sent to Spanish colonial possessions in the Spanish Sahara (today's Western Sahara), the Canary Islands, Sidi Ifni, and to Spain's African colonies such as Equatorial Guinea. (sofmag.com)
  • Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. (vifindia.org)
  • Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday on the first known direct flight since the two countries agreed to establish full diplomatic ties earlier this month as part of a series of U.S.-brokered accords with Arab countries. (westernjournal.com)
  • Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, has overseen the diplomatic push that saw the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalize relations with Israel in historic agreements. (westernjournal.com)
  • During the 1990s, Israel and Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations, but Morocco closed its representative office in Tel Aviv after the eruption of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. (westernjournal.com)
  • This has turned Israeli cyber into a world leader, so much so that over 40% of investments in the sector globally in 2020 went to Israeli companies and entrepreneurs. (business-humanrights.org)
  • It should be said that most Israeli cybersecurity companies develop decent and kosher products. (business-humanrights.org)
  • Hariri made lots of other enemies as well, however, including rival Lebanese groups, the Israeli government, Islamic extremists, and powerful financiers with interests in his multi-billion dollar reconstruction efforts. (ips-dc.org)
  • Despite this, they were unable to defend the country from the U.S.-backed Israeli invasion in 1982, the installation of the Phalangist leader Amin Gemayel as president, and the U.S. military intervention to help prop up Gemayel s rightist government against a popular uprising. (ips-dc.org)
  • The delegations were expected to restore low-level relations between Israel and Morocco and sign several cooperation agreements, including the establishment of direct flights, according to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat. (westernjournal.com)
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews trace their lineage to Morocco, and a small community of Jews, estimated at several thousand people, continues to live there. (westernjournal.com)
  • The summons came just three days after Amnesty International reported that the Moroccan authorities had used a spyware app called Pegasus developed by the Israeli technology company NSO Group to hack into Radi's phone and monitor his activities. (rsf.org)
  • During the week-end of 7-9 December the National Board of the Christian Democrat Youth in Norway passed a resolution demanding recognition of the Western Saharan Republic. (vest-sahara.no)
  • 12 April - Algerian authorities accuse Morocco of attacking an Algerian vehicle convoy on Sunday. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the reports from recent days regarding offensive-cyber company NSO, which joins a long list of exposes in Calcalist over recent years, must push the responsible authorities, both inside and outside of the industry, to reassess the situation. (business-humanrights.org)
  • 22:47 The ousted head of a US government biomedical research agency is warning that the United States is facing its "darkest winter in modern history" if authorities fail to develop and implement a "national coordinated response, based in science. (dw.com)
  • Authorities said three suspect vehicles were tracked on Wednesday after crossing the border and troops opened fire to stop them. (africacenter.org)
  • In February, three Danish journalists who came to see the situation in Western Sahara for themselves were expelled by Moroccan authorities," he added. (euobserver.com)
  • On 15 July, Iraqi authorities shut down internet access, except in the autonomous Kurdistan region, in response to anti-government protests. (eff.org)
  • Sweden u-turned on a decision to recognise Western Sahara earlier this year, and signed a extradition agreement allowing it to return Moroccan children that are living on Swedish streets. (euobserver.com)
  • A delegation from the European Parliament's Morocco friendship group is visiting Western Sahara on Saturday and Sunday (4 and 5 June) on Rabat's invitation. (euobserver.com)
  • The video included a participant from Hong Kong, for example, but not Taiwan and Tibet, which were included in China's borders. (axenewsroom.com)
  • The company added it has "deep respect for the people and craftsmen of Morocco," prompting officials in the North African country to express pride over its efforts to defend Moroccan cultural heritage on the global stage. (wtrf.com)
  • Tech companies' executive ranks are filled with former high-powered government officials, Supreme Court-like oversight boards impose First Amendment obligations on these private entities, they send "ambassadors" to build relationships with foreign governments. (time.com)
  • The government took steps to investigate, prosecute, or punish public officials who committed violations, especially corruption. (state.gov)
  • Impunity for police and security officials remained a problem, but the government provided information on actions taken against officials accused of wrongdoing. (state.gov)
  • The constitution provides for freedom of speech and press, and independent media outlets regularly criticized and satirized government officials and policies, but the government on some occasions restricted these rights. (state.gov)
  • 26 May - Italian fossil fuel company Eni signs an agreement with Algerian state-owned company Sonatrach to both explore up to 3 billion cubic meters of gas and launch a pilot green hydrogen project in the Algerian desert. (wikipedia.org)
  • A lawyer for the Moroccan government, Mourad Elajouti, sent "a legal warning" to Adidas on Sept. 30, demanding that the German company removed the collection within two weeks or released a statement "to identify the zellige art of Morocco as an inspiration" for the design of the Algerian team's jerseys. (wtrf.com)
  • Algerian president says relations with Morocco reach point of no return. (mailerlite.com)
  • Morocco asks to rejoin the African Union after 32 years Morocco seeks to make a return to the African Union after leaving thirty-two years ago over a rift on the recognition of the Western Sahara by member states. (jadaliyya.com)
  • But the establishment of the United Nations, whose core principles include the inviolability of borders and the inadmissibility of the use of force to change them, led to the proliferation of protracted conflicts. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • As seen in the case of the Crimea, international law is reluctant to recognize changes to borders because of fundamental principles of territorial inviolability, a central tenant of the post-war international legal order under the United Nations system. (time.com)
  • that the government follow up the earlier efforts of, among others, [former prime minister,] Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik and put pressure on Morocco to give the Sahrawis freedom of speech and freedom to organize. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Today, supranational technology and social media companies increasingly take on government-like functions of their own accord and wade into activities we typically associate with the domain of sovereign states. (time.com)
  • In northern Mexico, migrants stuck at the U.S. border waiting to apply for asylum are facing increasingly desperate conditions. (democracynow.org)
  • Morocco is increasingly negative about the peace process. (euobserver.com)
  • The controversial assessment that Global Diligence did on occupied Western Sahara for a project that will employ thousands of Moroccan settlers need to be released by French company Engie, WSRW demands in a letter. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW asks UN Member States to raise the rights of the people of Western Sahara, for whom Spain continues to bear responsibility. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW has reason to assume that a shipment of fish oil from occupied Western Sahara was discharged this afternoon in the Netherlands. (wsrw.org)
  • Yet these new commitments to control the border have been largely expressions of public diplomacy rather than manifestations of new thinking about the border. (truthout.org)
  • A multi-billionaire businessman prior to becoming prime minister, there were widespread charges of corruption in the awarding of contracts, many of which went to a company largely owned by Hariri himself. (ips-dc.org)
  • The former Legal Counsel to the UN Security Counsel, Mr. Hans Corell, comments on the EU's fisheries activities in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Until then, he called on Muslims to … "back your brothers in Palestine … supply them with what they need, seek victory for them in all international arenas," which is exactly why Israel will not allow Gaza to have 'open borders' with Egypt or drop its' long-standing naval blockade. (noisyroom.net)
  • CEUTA, Spain, May 18 (Reuters) - Spain has deployed troops to Ceuta to patrol the border with Morocco after thousands of migrants swam into the northern African enclave, in what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a serious crisis for Spain and Europe. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This week, the first components that will be used for Engie' highly problematic windmill programme in Western Sahara have arrived to the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • From early May, the Royal Air Maroc ran a propaganda campaign in Strasbourg selling trips to the occupied territory of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Western Sahara Resource Watch works to uncover the plunder of the territory and to keep the companies and governments accountable for their support to the occupation. (wsrw.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Photo: Katie Orlinsky / The New York Times) Prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, the term "border security" was rarely used. (truthout.org)
  • The emotions and concerns unleashed by the 9/11 attacks exacerbated the long-running practice of using the border security issue to further an array of political agendas - immigration crackdowns, border pork-barrel projects, drug wars, states' rights and even liberal immigration reform. (truthout.org)
  • The upsurge in attacks in Libya has led Ankara to increase its presence in the country to ensure its support for the Tripoli-based National Accord Government (NAG) led by Fayez Sarraj. (atalayar.com)
  • Tunisian troops stopped two bomb-laden cars crossing from Libya and seized arms and documents bearing the symbol of Islamic State, as security tightened following two major attacks this year, the government said on Thursday. (africacenter.org)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • However, backed by the US, UK, and the EU, Morocco successfully sabotaged the referendum promised by the UN, and MINURSO was reduced to a peace-keeping force. (atlasofwars.com)
  • As a result, the way Google draws borders or names places on its map is often at odds with those recognized by the international community or United Nations. (time.com)
  • While users in Ukraine still the saw the version of Google Maps everyone was used to seeing-no demarcated border between the Crimea and Russia, but a light gray line indicating an internal border within Ukraine-on the Russian version of Google Maps a solid line suddenly appeared between Ukraine and the Crimea. (time.com)
  • Our most recent project, #SpanishArms, documents where Spain has approved export licences for arms sold to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Nicaragua, and how those arms have been used in the facilitation of oppression or human rights violations. (bellingcat.com)
  • Yet products from Nagorno-Karabakh - which the United States and European Union recognize as part of Azerbaijan - freely enter Western markets labeled as products of Armenia. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • This study aims to provide decision makers in government as well as in the private sector with the means to recognize double standards. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The United States and many other nations do not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and still use the tricolor flag to represent the country. (axenewsroom.com)
  • Somalia's government claimed on Saturday that the Al Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked to open negotiations, amid a military offensive the government has described as "total war. (vifindia.org)
  • Today, however, it is both a fundamental goal of US domestic security and the defining paradigm for border operations. (truthout.org)
  • Media freedom is a fundamental right, but nearly half of the world's population has no access to freely reported news and information. (rsf.org)
  • Western Sahara republic expresses wish to be included in UN-led climate governance. (wsrw.org)
  • Donate today to keep our climate news free. (grist.org)
  • We don't have a paywall or run ads, which means we're not brought to you by the oil, gas, coal, or nuclear companies when we cover the climate catastrophe or by the weapons manufacturers when we cover war. (democracynow.org)
  • Sudan closed its border with the Central African Republic (CAR) and sent military reinforcements to frontier areas, local media reported on Thursday. (vifindia.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • The Legion carried out its duties in the overseas possessions for several years, deployed in convoy protection, border security and as simply being a dissuasive military presence. (sofmag.com)
  • These include commitments for 18-foot steel fencing, high-tech surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), increased prosecutions of illegal border crossers and new deployments of the Border Patrol and National Guard. (truthout.org)
  • On 23 and 24 October, the EU Court of Justice will hear the parties to the cases on applying EU-Morocco agreements to occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Elections for the lower chamber of parliament were held in 2017 and did not result in significant changes in the composition of the government. (state.gov)
  • Following Zaki's condemnation, three liberal opposition figures immediately announced that they were withdrawing from the national dialogue, launched at the beginning of May by the government, less than one year before presidential elections. (africacenter.org)
  • They were joined in part by government troops and took control of the city. (sofmag.com)
  • The government sent in troops from neighboring provinces to quell the fast growing movement, but the inexperienced troops were met by heavy resistance on the part of the leftist insurgents, who were well supplied with small arms, dynamite, 200 machines guns and 29 artillery pieces taken from the arms factory at Trubia or from captured government arsenals. (sofmag.com)
  • From the British East India Company in the 18th-century to airlines and energy companies of the present, private corporations have long found themselves mired in international conflicts. (time.com)
  • Western Sahara has been unlawfully occupied by Morocco for almost 40 years. (vest-sahara.no)
  • In most years, a presidential impeachment trial would top the year-end list of biggest news stories. (cfr.org)
  • However, the company has been authorised to sell arms to Turkey for the past two years," Ebrahim told the daily Ahval News. (atalayar.com)
  • King Mohammed VI said two years ago that "[Western] Sahara will remain a part of Morocco until the end of time. (euobserver.com)
  • The radio sector is dominated by the state but its ownership is otherwise more diverse, consisting of several smaller companies that have emerged in the past ten years. (rsf.org)
  • This is a challenging year for news organizations and nonprofits across the board, so please don't close this window before making your gift. (democracynow.org)
  • nor the executive branch has ever clearly defined the term "border security. (truthout.org)
  • Border security constitutes the single largest line item in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget. (truthout.org)
  • Nonetheless, DHS has failed to develop a border security strategy that complements US domestic and national security objectives. (truthout.org)
  • DHS has not even attempted to delineate benchmarks that would measure the security of the border or specify exactly how the massive border security buildup has increased homeland security. (truthout.org)
  • We will strengthen our border security and gain effective control of our borders. (truthout.org)
  • And DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano assured us last year that, as a result of new border security spending by the Obama administration, "the Southwest border is more secure than ever before. (truthout.org)
  • Since 2003, Homeland Security and the Justice Department have opened spigots of funding for an array of border security operations. (truthout.org)
  • These border security hawks charge that the federal government is failing to meet its responsibility to secure the border, pointing to continued illegal crossings by immigrants and drug traffickers. (truthout.org)
  • Border sheriffs, militant activists and state legislatures have even started taking border security into their own hands. (truthout.org)
  • The post-9/11 imperative of securing "the homeland" set off a widely played game of one-upmanship that has had Washington, border politicians and sheriffs, political activists and vigilantes competing to be regarded as the most serious and hawkish on border security. (truthout.org)
  • As the politics of border security in Texas and Arizona so well illustrate, "secure the border" is a rallying cry that energizes constituencies, catapults politicians to office and produces a steady stream of Fox News appearances for prominent border security hawks. (truthout.org)
  • Burkina Faso's interim government adopted a decree last week dissolving the Presidential Security Regiment, which mounted a short-lived coup two weeks ago. (africacenter.org)
  • Radi , 33, who is the co-creator of the news website Le Desk and is well known for his coverage of protests and corruption, announced yesterday that he has been summoned for questioning today by a unit at the Directorate General for National Security. (rsf.org)
  • Meanwhile, users of the standard .com version of Google Maps saw a third reality: a dashed line between the Crimea and Ukraine indicating that the border was now disputed. (time.com)
  • Swedish fishing vessels are being exported to occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • It transcends borders and undermines sustainable development, governance, economic stability and public health. (fairobserver.com)
  • that Norwegian companies involved in the unlawful exploitation of Western Sahara s natural resources withdraw from the country. (vest-sahara.no)
  • In a context of multiple and overlapping shocks related to frequent climatic hazards, as well as widespread fragility, the Somali government is implementing an ambitious reform program to build institutions, attract investments, and achieve inclusive economic growth and job creation, aligned with the ninth National Development Plan which outlines numerous priority areas for moving the country forward, several of which are supported by this Development Policy Financing (DPF). (tralac.org)
  • A large part of it spreads along the Gulf of Sidra, while quickly giving space to the Sahara Desert covering all the rest of the country s 1,759,540 km2 surface as soon as one heads towards the interior. (cap-lmu.de)
  • The UN recognised representation of the people of Western Sahara is today meeting with Canary fishermen to explore continued fishing opportunities as the EU-Moroccan fisheries are coming to an end. (wsrw.org)
  • is a free source of independent news for tens of millions of people around the world, but less than 1% of our global audience donates to support our critical journalism. (democracynow.org)
  • In his first televised appearance since the earthquake struck, King Mohammed VI visited Marrakech - 72 km (45 miles) from the tremor's epicentre - to meet injured people at a hospital, where the state news agency said he donated blood. (iol.co.za)
  • More than 10,000 people were expected at the meetings, which the government wants to go ahead, sources said. (iol.co.za)