• WSRW consists of organizations and campaigners from more than 40 countries researching and campaigning against the companies working in partnership with the Moroccan government in occupied Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • A subsidiary of the US company has signed a contract with the Moroccan king's energy firm for a large wind farm in Western Sahara, consistently referring to the location as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • German powerhouse MAN Diesel & Turbo has been contracted by the Moroccan government to extend the diesel generators in El Aaiun, occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Two previous attempts of the Moroccan government to install diesel power stations in Morocco proper, in Tiznit and Ait Melloul, were nipped in the bud, as civil protests broke out and concerns for environment and public health came to the fore. (wsrw.org)
  • Though Saharawis in Western Sahara also need petroleum products for civilian life-sustaining purposes, the petroleum is mostly used by the Moroccan administration, army, settlers and for plunder of the territory's rich natural resources. (wsrw.org)
  • The German insurance company Allianz goes all in when it politically defends the brutal Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.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)
  • 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)
  • Systematic human rights abuses, police brutality, violations of international law and fundamental rights, the Sahrawi people of Africa's last colony, Western Sahara, have endured decades of repression at the hands of Moroccan occupying forces. (left.eu)
  • What followed was a sham effort at 'consultation' by the Commission, involving a strange assortment of groups such as Morocco's largest mining firm, officials elected illegally under Moroccan occupation, Moroccan state-owned companies and private corporate interests. (left.eu)
  • MEP Patricia Lalonde, was a board member at a secretive Morocco-based foundation, EuroMedA, alongside former Moroccan government ministers and state officials. (left.eu)
  • Algiers believes it must continue buying Russian arms while feeling increasingly threatened by the situation in Western Sahara and Moroccan-Israeli normalization. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • In a letter made public on March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez endorsed a Moroccan plan of autonomy for Western Sahara, a clear break with Madrid's long-established policy that the disputed territory's status should be decided by a referendum. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an attempt to strengthen relations between the Kingdom and the State of Israel. (popularresistance.org)
  • And, in recent decades, the Spanish fishing fleet has become dependent on Western Sahara waters (and Moroccan licenses) for up to a third of its catches. (seleccions.org)
  • On September 29, the day the CJEU's decision on Western Sahara was announced, Josep Borrell, the EU's supreme foreign policy chief, issued a joint statement with his Moroccan colleague reaffirming a strategic partnership. (seleccions.org)
  • Abdel, 48, was born in Paris to Moroccan mother and father who arrived within the early Nineteen Fifties, when Morocco was nonetheless a French protectorate. (nayanazriya.com)
  • After Morocco's nationwide airline added flights from Casablanca to Doha for Moroccan supporters, he felt that the massive diaspora in Europe may be itching to get to Morocco. (nayanazriya.com)
  • At a second when the far-right is the most important single opposition celebration within the French parliament and its anti-immigration concepts are being echoed by different events, Morocco's workforce has been hailed as a logo of immigration and the Moroccan diaspora - a lot of Morocco's squad had been born or grew up exterior Morocco, together with its coach, Walid Regragui, who was born and raised close to Paris. (nayanazriya.com)
  • The problem of the western Sahara and France's visa allocations to Moroccan nationals have additionally triggered rigidity. (nayanazriya.com)
  • "We fully support Morocco and its Saharan autonomy initiative, which we see as the only solution to this dispute," This was announced by Ava Atzum Arevalo to the media after a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • Guatemala already announced its decision to open a consulate in Dakhla on September 22, in the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Morocco and agrees to the Moroccan proposal for Western Sahara. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • The North African country advocates a broad autonomy initiative for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty as the most viable option to resolve the nearly five-decade-long Sahara conflict. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • The Alawite kingdom thus continues to gain support for its proposal of broad autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty as the "most serious and credible" option for resolving the Saharawi conflict, as recognized by other very important countries such as Germany and Spain. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • This proposal received a major boost in December 2020 when Donald Trump's US administration recognized Moroccan sovereignty of the Sahara in exchange for the kingdom forging strong diplomatic ties with Israel, along the lines of the Abraham Accords, signed in September Sealed under US auspices in 2020. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon and Infrastructure Minister Bojan Kumer went to Algeria earlier this month to secure a deal between Sonatrach (Algeria's national state-owned oil company) and Geoplin (Slovenia's largest distributor of natural gas) whereby Algeria will cover one third of the Central European country's gas needs for the upcoming three years beginning on January 1, 2023. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • However, while the use of UAVs by Ukrainian and Russian forces has been very significant, it is important to be aware that there are real and important differences between the use of mainly small drone systems by parties in that conflict, and the use of large armed drones by other states such as the US, UK, Israel and Turkey even since the beginning of 2023. (dronewars.net)
  • 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)
  • Morocco has occupied the area since 1975. (euobserver.com)
  • While the 1975 annexation and the resulting conflict forced tens of thousands of Sahrawi people into refugee camps in the desert, European countries and Morocco have remained fixed on exploiting the occupied territory's resources, such as fertile fishing grounds off the coast. (left.eu)
  • The territory was ceded to Morocco and Mauritania after the exit of Spain as a colonial power in 1975. (popularresistance.org)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • By 2030, half of Morocco's wind energy production could be generated illegally in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • MAN Diesel & Turbo can do without the association to Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW maintains that the electrification of Western Sahara is advancing or entrenching Morocco's illegal occupation of the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • Siemens Gamesa are profiting from Morocco's plunder of illegally occupied land & violent repression of the people of Western Sahara. (waronwant.org)
  • The letter endorses Rabat's position on Western Sahara, describing Morocco's 2007 proposal for Sahrawi autonomy - which would integrate the territory into Morocco - as 'the most serious, realistic, and credible' basis for resolving the conflict. (popularresistance.org)
  • Spain is now the strongest European supporter of Morocco's autonomy plan - even in comparison to France, a close ally of Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
  • Guatemalan Deputy Foreign Minister Ava Atzum Arévalo traveled to Rabat, where she reaffirmed her country's position in supporting Morocco's formula of sovereignty over Western Sahara as the "only possible solution" to the Saharawi conflict. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • We support Morocco's position on this issue and we will support Morocco forever," the Central American country's head of diplomacy said in statements to the press, echoed by media outlets including Atlas Info. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • Because of this, the actions of the United States and Spain in defense of the resolution of the conflict through the political route provided by autonomy within the framework of the Alawi kingdom are so important and provide the impetus for progress, stability and improvement in this area. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • Morocco began constructing the wall in 1980, after a war with indigenous Sahrawi fighters who demanded that Western Sahara be given autonomy from Morocco. (middleeasteye.net)
  • 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)
  • But Morocco stopped the UN-negotiated referendum from taking place. (euobserver.com)
  • However, Morocco has persistently worked to defer the referendum, which has still not taken place. (left.eu)
  • The UN has been unable to ensure that Morocco holds a national referendum within the Western Sahara over the future of the territory. (popularresistance.org)
  • 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)
  • After resignation of Personal Envoy of the Secretary General Horst Kohler in May 2019, the UN Security Council returned to one-year renewals of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. (state.gov)
  • MADRID , Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Contrary to the much-abused cliché, Morocco has demonstrated its strategic commitment to the Sahara's development. (weeklyreviewer.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)
  • 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)
  • Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • However, while the Court's judgment meant the European Commission would first need to obtain the consent of the Sahrawi people before finalising agreements with Rabat, the Commission went on to relaunch a new trade deal, the EU-Morocco Association Agreement. (left.eu)
  • This clear violation of international law and the rights of the Sahrawi people to determine their future is extremely damaging to efforts towards peace in this conflict. (left.eu)
  • Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an "autonomous" region within the North African state. (popularresistance.org)
  • 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)
  • The Rafto Foundation wishes to support the saharawi´s struggle for human rights and self-determination, and has therefore decided to give the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for 2002 to Sidi Mohammed Daddach from Western Sahara. (humanrightshouse.org)
  • Western Sahara, disputed between Morocco and the Saharawi people's Polisario Front, is listed among the UN's non-self-governing territories. (time.com)
  • The latter objective de facto gives credit to an illegal and massive process of demographic engineering by Morocco, resulting in the indigenous Saharawi population to become a minority in its own territory. (euobserver.com)
  • Western Sahara is Africa's last colony! (vest-sahara.no)
  • Western Sahara is often referred to as Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • This ruling, a mere statement of fact, brought the frozen conflict of Western Sahara to the forefront of the EU agenda, after more than four decades of European passivity or even discreet complicity with the illegal occupying force in Africa's last colony. (euobserver.com)
  • In the most recent incident, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, a pan-Arab, Saudi-owned newspaper , quoted, former Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments official Idah Falahi as demanding the withdrawal of Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi because of his "extensive contacts with civil society groups, through Facebook and social media" and alleged attempts to meddle in the dispute between Morocco and Algeria over the Western Sahara. (therealnews.com)
  • It…became apparent that Mousavi was in fact an Iranian intelligence agent , whose remit was to interfere in the dispute between Algeria and Morocco over the Western Sahara conflict," said Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat columnist Tony Duheaume. (therealnews.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)
  • This could upset Algeria and harden its resolution in its dispute with Morocco. (seleccions.org)
  • Europeans would be wrong to think that Algeria and Morocco frame this dispute around economic and technical factors. (seleccions.org)
  • Morocco last month broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, alleging that Tehran had provided financial and logistical support as well as surface-to-air missiles to the Algerian-backed West Saharan liberation movement , Frente Polisario, using Hezbollah as an intermediary. (therealnews.com)
  • The newspaper reported that Iran was seeking to recruit Algerian Shiites who travel to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq and was using Iranian companies as vehicles to promote Shiism. (therealnews.com)
  • State-owned Algerian oil and gas company Sonatrach has now threatened Spain with a "recalculation" of the gas price amid the energy crisis and the highest inflation numbers in Spanish history. (inspain.news)
  • The Algerian leadership has been outraged by Spain's role in the Western Sahara conflict since Spain's dramatic turnaround two weeks ago. (inspain.news)
  • From the Algerian perspective as the protector of the Polisario Front fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, this was a "betrayal" that could cost Spain dearly during the war in Ukraine. (inspain.news)
  • Sonatrach CEO Toufik Hakkar spoke with the Algerian state news agency APS. (inspain.news)
  • The situation in Ukraine, which dangerously escalates tensions between Russia - Algeria's strategic partner and main arms supplier - and the North African country's Western partners, is a major test for Algerian non-alignment on the international stage. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Although this approach has effectively se-rved Algerian interests, the longer this conflict rages on, Algeria will find neutrality harder to maintain. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • The Western Sahara issue is always central to Algerian foreign policy decision-making. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Algerian president says relations with Morocco reach point of no return. (mailerlite.com)
  • On October 30, Algeria plans to close a gas pipeline carrying Algerian gas to Morocco, Spain and Portugal. (seleccions.org)
  • With the closure of the gas pipeline, Morocco will have to find ways to do without Algerian gas entirely, although its energy sector has already foreseen this possibility. (seleccions.org)
  • The organization also launches campaigns, encouraging multinational companies and governments not to invest and participate in trade in the occupied territories of Western Sahara until a peaceful solution to the conflict has been found. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • In 2016, the European Court of Justice reaffirmed that Morocco had no sovereignty over Western Sahara, meaning that the EU's agreements with Morocco cannot cover the territory. (left.eu)
  • Morocco insists it has sovereignty over the long contested territory. (seleccions.org)
  • Spain's stance on the matter is especially important, as the country was Western Sahara's colonial ruler until 1976 . (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In a bitter response, Morocco lifted border controls into Ceuta, one of Spain's small enclaves in North Africa, allowing some 10,000 migrants to cross the border and effectively creating a humanitarian crisis. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Less discussed is how conflicts in North Africa are likely to reduce Spain's winter gas supplies, while potentially adding upward pressure on electricity prices for the rest of the l 'Europe. (seleccions.org)
  • Sadly, there are many other territorial disputes around the world, for example the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, or Morocco and the Western Sahara. (capitalgroup.com)
  • Territorial conflicts have existed throughout history. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Some territorial disputes have prompted the forced expulsion or wartime flight of the pre-conflict population. (silkroadstudies.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)
  • Morocco has been illegally occupying Western Sahara for nearly 50 years. (waronwant.org)
  • Therefore, the EU-Morocco trade agreement had been illegally applied to that territory. (euobserver.com)
  • Mauritania relinquished its falsely designated authority over the Western Sahara, while the Kingdom of Morocco, one of the few remaining monarchies on the continent, has refused to allow the people of the territory to even conduct an internationally supervised and monitored election on the status of their own country. (popularresistance.org)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara and administers the territory that it controls. (state.gov)
  • Since replacing Spain as coloniser, Morocco has attempted to control a territory about the size of the UK using military force to suppress free speech and pro-independence protests. (left.eu)
  • Relations between Madrid and Rabat have been frosty since May 2021, when Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, for hospital treatment after he suffered complications related to COVID-19. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Formerly known as the "Spanish Sahara", the people of the territory have been demanding national independence for decades. (popularresistance.org)
  • The most progressive states within the AU have supported the SADR in their struggle to win independence from Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • This is part of a long, smoldering quarrel between Algeria and Morocco that arguably began with the former's independence from France in 1962. (seleccions.org)
  • Morocco is angry with Algeria for its support for the Polisario Front, which wants independence for Western Sahara. (seleccions.org)
  • Juhl hopes that Denmark will take up the vacant leadership role in defending Western Sahara's interests in the EU. (euobserver.com)
  • With the aim of accelerating the Sahara's development and socio-economic integration, Morocco launched an ambitious $8 billion project in 2015. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • Saharawis in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrated as a cargo vessel is arriving to pick up more controversial windmill components for occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan and Algeria have in recent weeks accused Iran of subversive activity and propagating Shiism while Morocco last month announced that it was breaking off diplomatic relations with the Islamic republic. (therealnews.com)
  • Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez revoked Spanish neutrality in this conflict after more than 40 years to put an end to the diplomatic crisis with Morocco. (inspain.news)
  • The match comes at a fragile second within the diplomatic relationship between France and Morocco. (nayanazriya.com)
  • Although Algiers and Moscow maintain a robust Cold War-era partnership, Algeria has not aligned with Russia and the two countries do not see eye-to-eye on the conflict. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Although the Russians do not want to see Algeria uphold its energy agreements with European powers (let alone help them amid the ongoing global energy crisis), Algiers is choosing to play a role that is useful to Western powers amid this war. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Algiers has an opportunity here, and to some degree pursued it, to really kind of explore and signal to Europe and Western capitals what neutrality looks like," Lawrence told Responsible Statecraft. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Algiers views growing Western support for Morocco on this front as problematic and reason to safeguard strong relations with Russia despite Moscow not necessarily being too supportive of Algeria on this file. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • Algeria said three truck drivers had been killed in a bombing as they drove from Mauritania, an attack Algiers blamed on neighboring Morocco. (thedefensepost.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)
  • The Russia-Ukraine conflict has sharpened our focus on geopolitics. (capitalgroup.com)
  • All these risks have come under greater focus because of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. (capitalgroup.com)
  • By the same token, Algeria has not bowed to Western pressure to end its dealings with Russia, nor taken official stances against Moscow over Ukraine. (thefrontierpost.com)
  • 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)
  • As we reach the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you could be forgiven for thinking that the on-going conflict in eastern Europe has become the epicentre of the use of drones. (dronewars.net)
  • Early on in the conflict, Ukraine deployed a number of larger armed Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones. (dronewars.net)
  • Israel is concerned that weapons provided by the U.S. and other Western nations to Ukraine will end up in the hands of Israel's foes in the Middle East, including Iran. (dailyalert.org)
  • Recent disruptions in the cereal value chain due to the Black Sea blockade resulting from the conflict in Ukraine are seen as the straw that broke the camel's back for many leaders across the continent. (tralac.org)
  • Letter dated 29 January 2002 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, addressed to the President of the Security Council [1] Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western SaharaBBC News 14.12.2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • But amid all of this - negotiations, votes, rulings, resolutions - the fate of the people of the Western Sahara is at issue. (left.eu)
  • The US and Morocco launched the vast annual 'African Lion' military exercise, amid tensions between the North African kingdom and Algeria. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Morocco has established a new military zone bordering Algeria amid mounting tensions between the two North African countries. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Rather than complying with the ruling and negotiating a separate agreement with the UN-recognised representative of the people of Western Sahara, the Polisario Front, the Commission chose to prioritise at all costs the preservation of its relationship with its partner in Rabat. (euobserver.com)
  • Morocco wants to 'turn the page definitively' on the Western Sahara conflict but without giving up its 'legitimate rights' over the disputed territory, the country's foreign minister said. (thedefensepost.com)
  • 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)
  • Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). (silkroadstudies.org)
  • 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)
  • This is partly due to Google's role in our lives as a purveyor of fact, combined with the sense that digital mapping is scientific, objective, and unbiased, as well as the reality that many governments have outsourced data management functions to private companies. (time.com)
  • The New Development Model for the Southern Provinces, as the project has been dubbed, revolves around infrastructures aimed at structuring the territory of the Sahara region which includes the Tiznit-Elaayoune-Dajla motorway and the Lamhiriz fishing and the Dakhla Atlantique ports. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • Children in the Dakhla Refugee Camp in Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • A hearing in the EU Parliament indicates that there are many questions, and still few answers, on the EU's response to the EU Court ruling annulling bilateral agreements with Morocco over the inclusion of occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Today, the EU Court of Justice has struck a blow to the EU's practice of applying trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco to occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco will not only achieve energy self-sufficiency but also be able to export a significant percentage of the EU's energy needs. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • Since 2018, a Bellingcat collaboration has documented, using open source, how European countries and companies have breached their own, and international, laws dozens of times. (bellingcat.com)
  • By the end of 2018, 48% of the objectives had already been achieved, giving a strong perceived boost to socio-economic momentum, increasing the creation of companies, jobs and attracting investment. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • 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)
  • WSRW works to inform international companies about the UN Legal Opinion and of the ethical aspects of business practice in the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since 2006, the organization has worked to prevent the European Union entering agreements with Morocco covering the territory of Western Sahara, most importantly its Fisheries Partnership Agreements. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Spanish company today, yet again, refers to the territory as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • We call upon MAN to immediately reconsider its engagement and abstain from installing the equipment in the occupied territory", WSRW wrote in a letter to the company today. (wsrw.org)
  • The border between Morocco and the disputed territory of the Western Sahara is marked by an estimated 2700km of sand and stone walling bisecting the desert landscape. (middleeasteye.net)
  • Morocco has occupied the territory ever since, a presence most of the world considers illegal. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Relations deteriorated further this summer when Algeria accused Morocco of playing a role in starting several serious forest fires in its territory. (seleccions.org)
  • Algeria accused Morocco of 'targeted killings' of three people, after reports of an attack by the kingdom on the edge of the Western Sahara. (thedefensepost.com)
  • Morocco is increasingly negative about the peace process. (euobserver.com)
  • Porous borders have come hand-in-hand with globalisation, and nation states in the Middle East are increasingly turning to construction companies to secure their boundaries. (middleeasteye.net)
  • The international escalation of the conflict in Libya is increasingly critical. (atalayar.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In most other conflict zones, such as Northern Cyprus and Nagorno-Karabakh, settlers gained access to the homes of former residents. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The Western Sahara is the only country which has not been declared independent within the AU, whose predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) after contentious debate, has advocated for the total liberation of the Western Sahara for nearly four decades. (popularresistance.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)
  • Remote work trends threaten debt-loaded developers, but give companies leverage to lower real estate costs. (gfmag.com)
  • Spain thereby indirectly recognised that Western Sahara is and will remain a part of Morocco. (inspain.news)
  • that Morocco open its borders to Western Sahara so that the international community can gain insight into the human rights situation in the occupied areas. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Juhl said that Danish companies and municipalities should not take the risk of breaking international law. (euobserver.com)
  • What is the incentive for Morocco to engage in peace talks when it has Europe's consent to carry on ignoring international law? (left.eu)
  • Some international actors such as the African Union and the European Union, faced with the Western Sahara issue, are significantly holding back the region's development potential, both in social and economic terms. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • If so, many would consider the UK a participant in this horrific conflict which has killed thousands of innocent civilians and seen repeated violations of international law. (dronewars.net)
  • 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)
  • Most of the depictions on the map are probably the result of limited research and sloppy editing instead of genuine stances MrBeast takes on wildly divisive international conflicts. (axenewsroom.com)
  • Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) is a network organization working on the natural resource situation in Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Just one year ago, WSRW published the " Fuelling the Occupation " report, documenting transports and volumes of petroleum products into occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • In 2011 the EU parliament terminated the last Fisheries Partnership Agreements with Morocco for the waters of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arab Africana™ publishes and aggregates business, socio-economic, Tech and industrial news on Arab countries in Africa. (arabafricana.com)
  • With support for opponents of Morocco, Iran seeks to undermine a staunch Western ally that serves as a bedrock of stability in a troubled neighborhood. (thedefensepost.com)
  • While some news organisations reported this as the first UK deployment of aircraft in the conflict, in fact as far back as 13 October the Prime Minister announced that UK surveillance aircraft were to be deployed " to support Israel . (dronewars.net)
  • Fossil fuel companies support police foundations across the country, especially in major oil producing states such as Texas and Louisiana. (truthout.org)
  • This reality, which aims to contribute to the four large solar power plants and up to eleven wind farms, will make Morocco a leader in renewable energy on the continent. (weeklyreviewer.com)
  • This prompted Madrid to raid € 3 billion on the profits of Spanish energy companies, like renewable energy star Iberdrola. (seleccions.org)
  • Now for a small piece of (possibly) good news, Biden has declared that US "partners" are " are not looking for a Third World War " . (defending-gibraltar.net)
  • News seeped out of towns like Alamata and Mlazat that the drones' missiles were killing not just suspected rebels but dozens of people, many of them civilians, as they rode buses or shopped in markets. (juancole.com)
  • Important Update (4 December): Despite stating on camera to two different news programmes that drones had been deployed, the Ministry of Defence has now told journalists that the Minister was incorrect - the UK has not deployed drones but has deployed other surveillance aircraft. (dronewars.net)
  • On Sunday 3 December, Health Secretary Victoria Atkins, appearing as government spokesperson on Sky News, was asked about the flights and said "The Ministry of Defence has announced that it has sent some unmanned and unarmed, surveillance drones into the region to help look for hostages. (dronewars.net)
  • Media reports at the time lauded the use of these as a game-changer and some even went so far as to suggest that use of armed drones would be strategically significant in the conflict. (dronewars.net)
  • This symbiotic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and police often means that the companies that are polluting Black and Brown communities - like Marathon Petroleum in Detroit, Valero in Corpus Christi, or Shell in Louisiana - are the same ones that are aligned with and propping up police forces in these same cities. (truthout.org)
  • Marathon Petroleum, the nation's largest oil refining company, has a history of environmental pollution that disproportionately impacts the health of Black and Brown communities where their refineries are based. (truthout.org)
  • The EU Court of Justice will rule on the Union's trade and fisheries agreements with Morocco in occupied Western Sahara on 29 September. (wsrw.org)
  • During a press conference last week, Polisario invited the Union to conversations on continuation of fisheries offshore Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Tensions have reached the European Court of Justice, which this week awarded the Polisario Front a legal victory, ruling that a broad economic treaty between the EU and Morocco could not automatically be extended to Western Sahara. (seleccions.org)
  • Multinational mining companies are buying up land across the planet to extract natural resources, contracting state forces, private mercenary companies, and even illegal paramilitary groups to protect their interests and repress local opposition. (waronwant.org)
  • 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)
  • Nonetheless, in response to the seating of the SADR by the OAU/AU, Morocco withdrew its membership from the continental organization. (popularresistance.org)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • The organization believes that the occupation of Western Sahara will continue as long as Morocco profits from it. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since there are multiple zones of disputed territories and occupation around the globe, setting policy toward one conflict raises the question of whether similar policies will be enacted toward others. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The findings revealed a heavy involvement of the Swedish shipping company Wisby Tankers AB. (wsrw.org)
  • Karen Lomeland Jacobsen from the Rafto Foundation's student group criticizes the oil company TotalFinaElf for its involvement in searching for oil in Western Sahara. (humanrightshouse.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)
  • 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)
  • The Swiss-Russian company EuroChem was most likely behind a controversial imports of conflict minerals to Estonia in October. (wsrw.org)
  • The Mexican imports of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara is picking up pace. (wsrw.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • As the weapon spreads across the globe, some U.S. lawmakers seek to crack down on the country, saying it's exploiting its NATO status to obtain key parts from Western manufacturers. (juancole.com)
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  • A gas pipeline is scheduled from Nigeria to Morocco - through Western Sahara. (wsrw.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)