• 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)
  • This conservative figure constitutes approximately 30% of all the fishmeal that Morocco exports globally (which the Moroccan government reports as 163.698 tonnes for 2020). (wsrw.org)
  • According to the Moroccan government , 88,377 tonnes of fish meal were exported from "Morocco" to Turkey in 2020 - combining the figures from Morocco and from Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • According to the Moroccan government (or download ), there are a number of fishmeal or fish oil exporters in the port of El Aaiún: Copelit, Delta Ocean, KB Fish, Laayoune Elevage, Laayoune Proteine, Sepomer Sahara, Somatraps, Sotragel. (wsrw.org)
  • The fish stocks of occupied Western Sahara have not only attracted the interest of the Moroccan fleet: other foreign interests are also fishing in the occupied waters through arrangements with Moroccan counterparts. (wsrw.org)
  • For example, in partnership with energy companies, including European firms such as Siemens and Enel, the Moroccan royal family has generated an estimated €143.4 million from the illegal exploitation of Western Sahara's natural resources. (wsrw.org)
  • The Moroccan state-owned phosphate giant OCP, promised the creation of jobs in its mining operation in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • These positions, however, overwhelmingly go to Moroccan settlers, whose presence in occupied Western Sahara is heavily subsidized and supported by the Moroccan State. (wsrw.org)
  • However, since the Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory, the legitimacy of these rights is a legal conundrum when it comes to international commercial agreements (eg, when licensing a Moroccan trademark to an international company). (inventa.com)
  • Indeed, can this licence be considered effective in Western Sahara by courts other than Moroccan courts? (inventa.com)
  • On the other hand, Morocco would affirm that a Moroccan IP right must be considered effective in Western Sahara by any national court in the world. (inventa.com)
  • On 21 December 2016, the European Court of Justice joined the ranks of the ICJ, the United Nations and the African Union in upholding the long-standing and unequivocal position that Morocco has no sovereignty over Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Both legal actions were based on the principles of international law, including the rights of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and permanent sovereignty over their natural resources. (inventa.com)
  • They have no one-no one at all,' he said during an audition to the Senate, on the US outgoing president Donald Trump's alleged sovereignty over Western Sahara. (sahcan.org)
  • In the case of Western Sahara, this is mainly due to the fact that it is a disputed territory between the Saharawi people, led by the Polisario Front, which self-proclaimed it the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976, and Morocco, which annexed two-thirds of the country in 1975 after the withdrawal of Spain. (inventa.com)
  • Naturally, the Polisario Front would defend that Western Sahara can be designated when applying for international rights at WIPO, while Morocco would contest this. (inventa.com)
  • Our calculation of fishmeal exports to Turkey does not consider the possible transports of Western Saharan fishmeal via ports in Morocco proper. (wsrw.org)
  • Along the Western Saharan coastline, a processing industry has emerged. (wsrw.org)
  • At that moment, Morocco agreed to hold a referendum on Western Saharan independence, but this is yet to take place. (inventa.com)
  • What is happening in Western Sahara has long been considered 'a frozen and forgotten conflict' which let the status quo continue, leaving the Western Saharan people in limbo, he said. (sahcan.org)
  • In the western territories of the Black Continent of Africa (southward from the Sahara in the wide territories of Sudan) the French took the focal local initiatives. (dehai.org)
  • Welcome to Africa Now , your weekly newsletter for Africa, presenting the most important developments in the continent - news that matters. (vifdatabase.com)
  • Bir Lehlou (Sahrawi Republic) 8 September 2022 (SPS)- The Government of the Sahrawi Republic, issued a Press Release Today, urging the organisers of "Africa Eco Race" to refrain from violating international law in complicity with Morocco, by crossing the Sahrawi territory as they announced. (sahcan.org)
  • The organisers of "Africa Eco Race" have announced that their edition of this year, scheduled from 15 to 30 October 2022, will enter and cross the Occupied Territories of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR) in complicity with the occupying authorities of Morocco," the text reads. (sahcan.org)
  • Egypt is a country in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge to Western Asia. (wollecamp.be)
  • All contents (c) 2023, Graham Digital Holding Company. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • On February 28, 2023, Mody met with the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley during the African Chiefs of Defense Conference in Rome to discuss "regional stability, including counterterrorism cooperation and the continued fight against violent extremism in the region. (alternet.org)
  • Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) is a network organization working on the natural resource situation in Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • WSRW works to inform international companies about the UN Legal Opinion and of the ethical aspects of business practice in the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • A third of all fishmeal that Morocco exports is shipped from occupied Western Sahara to Turkey, new WSRW calculation reveals. (wsrw.org)
  • For the second year in a row, Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) presents an analysis of the large exports of valuable fishmeal from occupied Western Sahara to Turkey. (wsrw.org)
  • WSRW considers it likely that other aquaculture companies in Güllük - as well as importers in the Turkish port of Nemrut - could also be receiving fishmeal from Western Sahara by boat. (wsrw.org)
  • On 6 November 2019, Western Sahara Resource Watch witnessed the arrival of the ship Derya Aytekin to the port of Güllük, fully loaded with bags of fishmeal. (wsrw.org)
  • Western Sahara is an Atlantic-coastal desert area of 266,000km2, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. (inventa.com)
  • Algeria said that the conflict of Western Sahara is a question of decolonization which can only be resolved through the application of the international law and the well-established charter of the United Nations and the African Union in this matter, which provides for the authentic exercise by the Sahrawi people of their inalienable right to self-determination and independence,' added the Republican senator. (sahcan.org)
  • The Italian government has signed a deal to import more natural gas from Algeria - but will this really help wean Italy off its heavy energy reliance on Russia? (thelocal.it)
  • Despite its vast natural gas reserves, Algeria is already exporting at close to full capacity. (thelocal.it)
  • Algeria has almost 2.4 trillion cubic metres of proven natural gas reserves and is Africa's largest gas exporter. (thelocal.it)
  • The assessment is based on WSRW's tracking of vessels between Western Sahara and Turkey, and includes all known shipments of fishmeal exported during the calendar year 2020. (wsrw.org)
  • If applying those figures, the value of the fishmeal exported from occupied Western Sahara to Turkey amounted to 70.7 million USD in 2020. (wsrw.org)
  • Similarly, prices for Morocco phosphate rock climbed from US$83.33 on December 31, 2020, to end 2021 at US$176.67 - a 112 percent increase. (hempweedwholesale.com)
  • Morocco and the Western Sahara region rank second in terms of annual phosphate output , producing 37 million MT in 2020. (hempweedwholesale.com)
  • Exports and imports in November 2020 reflect both the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continued economic recovery from the sharp declines earlier in the year. (bea.gov)
  • The whole territory of Western Sahara is a war zone since last 13 November 2020, and "consequently, the Government of the Sahrawi Republic once again launches an urgent call on all countries of the world and public and private sectors to refrain from any activity of any kind in the Sahrawi National Territory," the Press release emphasised. (sahcan.org)
  • Washington , 19 December 2020 (SPS) - Morocco hires lobbyists to influence Washington decisions concerning Western Sahara question, Senator James Inhofe said on Thursday in front of the UN Congress. (sahcan.org)
  • Even the head of the world's premiere nature travel company struggles to get his kids - and himself - off the screen and into the woods. (nathab.com)
  • It was during Issoufou's time in office that the United States government built the world's largest drone base in Agadez and that the French special forces garrisoned the city of Irlit on behalf of the uranium mining company Orano (formerly a part of Areva). (alternet.org)
  • in fact Morocco is the world's thirdlargest producer of phosphates, after the United States and Russia. (wollecamp.be)
  • The EBRD is considering an equity and debt financing to Altain Khuder LLC ('the Company' or 'AK') for the development of its Tayan Nuur iron ore mine in Mongolia. (wollecamp.be)
  • Jan 21, 2013· Egypt discovered a large deposit of natural uranium Sunday, reported Israel's Walla News. (wollecamp.be)
  • Since the Polisario proclaimed the establishment of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in 1976, 84 countries have recognized Western Sahara as an independent state,'' he recalled. (sahcan.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)
  • We write to you as representatives of Saharawi civil society in response to recent EU attempts to amend its trade agreement with Morocco underpinned by the illegal exploitation of natural resources of Western Sahara, and to dispel the myth that this exploitation benefits the local Saharawi population. (wsrw.org)
  • These are only a handful of examples of how the illegal exploitation of the Western Sahara only benefits Morocco and further entrenches Rabat's illegal occupation of Saharawi territory. (wsrw.org)
  • Enabling further exploitation by seeking to circumvent the ECJ's ruling directly challenges the credibility of the EU, and significantly damages the potential for progress through the UN-led negotiation process, which is the appropriate framework through which to resolve the issue of natural resources. (wsrw.org)
  • Under international law, the natural resources of Western Sahara can only be developed and exported if prior consent has been obtained from the people of the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • As representatives of Saharawi civil society organizations based in the occupied Territory of Western Sahara and the refugee camps in the Southwest Algerian desert, we call on the EU to cease all trade talks with the occupying power, Morocco, regarding resources and trade in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • And crucially, it confirmed our right to protect and preserve our interests in the natural resources of our territory and waters. (wsrw.org)
  • That decision reaffirmed that any agreement pertaining to Western Sahara's natural resources requires the consent of the Saharawi people, who are represented by the Front POLISARIO, as General Assembly Resolution 34/37 established in 1979. (wsrw.org)
  • Your excellencies, international law is very clear that any agreement concluded with Morocco cannot apply to Western Sahara or be implemented in any way that allows its territory, territorial waters or resources to be used in any way without the consent of the Saharawi people through their internationally recognized representatives, the Front POLISARIO. (wsrw.org)
  • The crisis is "degrading and depleting Montana's unique and precious environment and natural resources, which the Youth Plaintiffs depend on for their safety and survival. (truthout.org)
  • But Diamond isn't particularly interested in any of those things-or, at least, he's interested in them only insofar as they bear on what to him is the far more important question, which is a society's relationship to its climate, geography, natural resources and neighbors. (arlingtoninstitute.org)
  • In 2011 the EU parliament terminated the last Fisheries Partnership Agreements with Morocco for the waters of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • In practice, Morocco began to export agricultural products grown in Sahrawi land and fish caught in Sahrawi waters to the European Union. (inventa.com)
  • 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)
  • Our calculations have taken into account whether the ships had called into other ports - in addition to Western Sahara - on their way to Güllük, and how the vessels' draught changed upon those stopovers. (wsrw.org)
  • The Senator added that the United States had supported, since 1966, the right of the Sahrawi people to have their own country, evoking the various trade agreements signed between the United States and Morocco and which did not cover the Sahrawi territory, precisely because of the non-recognition by the United States of Western Sahara as part of Morocco. (sahcan.org)
  • The forgotten conflict allowed Morocco to continue encroaching and getting away with human rights abuses" in occupied Western Sahara, he said. (sahcan.org)
  • The European Union indicated last Thursday that the status of Western Sahara has not been determined and must be negotiated in a process led by the United Nations,' he said adding that the United Kingdom had also decided to maintain unchanged its position on the status of Western Sahara. (sahcan.org)
  • I've run Natural Habitat Adventures for THIRTY YEARS now (ouch! (nathab.com)
  • Together, Natural Habitat Adventures and World Wildlife Fund have teamed up to arrange nearly a hundred nature travel experiences around the planet, while helping to protect the magnificent places we visit and their wild inhabitants. (nathab.com)
  • Prices for phosphate moved higher in 2021, driven in part by a US countervailing duty on phosphate imports from Morocco and Russia. (hempweedwholesale.com)
  • As 2022 starts, the Investing News Network (INN) takes a look at what experts expect for phosphate going forward. (hempweedwholesale.com)
  • In March, the US International Trade Commission ruled that the domestic industry was being "materially injured by reason of imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia that the US Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized by the governments of those countries. (hempweedwholesale.com)
  • Rising domestic demand and maturing natural gas fields continue to weigh heavily on volumes available for export," said Calik. (thelocal.it)
  • Italy uses gas to meet the bulk of its energy needs, and buys the vast majority of its natural gas from overseas - mainly Russia, with over 40 percent of its imports coming from the country. (thelocal.it)
  • This competition revolves around Mauritania's natural gas reserves and the green energy potential presented by its vast desert terrain-not to mention its strategically valuable position on the Atlantic coast. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The dry north anticipates the Sahara Desert. (allgov.com)
  • Seeking to circumvent the ECJ's ruling, directly challenges the credibility of the EU, and significantly damages the potential for progress through the UN-led negotiation process", Saharawi groups qualify the EU's talks with Morocco regarding Western Sahara trade, in their letter to the EU's Foreign Affairs Chief. (wsrw.org)
  • Technical managers at the SOMELEC, The Mauritanian Electricity Company, talk with each other at the turbines field at the 30MW Nouakchott Wind Power Station in Nouakchott, Mauritania on March 21. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The headquarters of Italian multinational oil and gas company ENI in Milan. (thelocal.it)
  • Nevertheless, since the territory is largely occupied by Morocco, which considers itself to have legitimate control of the region, any trademark rights protected in Morocco are arguably also protected in all regions over which the country claims jurisdiction. (inventa.com)
  • In December 2016, the highest Court of the EU ruled that no EU trade or association agreement with Morocco could be applied to Western Sahara, and that the people of the territory have to consent to any arrangement affecting them. (wsrw.org)
  • As the jurisdiction of Morocco in the region is at stake as far as IP rights are concerned, we can expect that cases related to the 2000 and 2010 EU-Morocco Trade Agreements would help to highlight a response or at least some guidance. (inventa.com)
  • 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)
  • However, Morocco sees Western Sahara as part of its historic territory and continues to claim control of the region. (inventa.com)
  • The courts considered that, in light of those principles, the "territory of the Kingdom of Morocco" cannot be interpreted as including Western Sahara. (inventa.com)
  • Natural contractions can take some practice to tune into, but they will allow you to enjoy much longer sessions. (aneros.com)
  • Inhofe also mentioned seven other firms specializing in political issues, hired by Morocco during 2005. (sahcan.org)
  • First, there is the fact that the people of the United States, perhaps more than any other Western country, are still influenced by the primitive outlook of 18th and 19th century capitalism. (strategic-culture.org)
  • The Youth Plaintiffs, as they are referred to in the case, maintain that they have been and will continue to be harmed by the dangerous effects of fossil fuels and the climate crisis. (truthout.org)
  • The bibliographical consent, which has an scientific formation and natural invalid references, offers Hence read into 15 developments to share a magnetic submission of the method, to act both full table to Measurements and move an Noninvasive blog and free resource. (moretti.ca)
  • It holds the occupying state of Morocco fully responsible for the consequences that may result from its continued provocations that seriously undermine not only the prospects for relaunching the already stalled UN peace process but also peace and security of the entire region. (sahcan.org)
  • The French continued to operate along Senegal's coast until the 1850s, when they began to expand their foothold into the central part of the country, wiping out native populations along the way. (allgov.com)
  • The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis continue to monitor data quality and have determined estimates in this release meet publication standards. (bea.gov)
  • The organization believes that the occupation of Western Sahara will continue as long as Morocco profits from it. (wikipedia.org)
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  • In his previous best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel , which won a Pulitzer Prize, Jared Diamond looked at environmental and structural factors to explain why Western societies came to dominate the world. (arlingtoninstitute.org)
  • Moreover, he said that the reactions around the world are clearly unfavorable to this announcement which was made in exchange of the normalization between Morocco and Israel. (sahcan.org)
  • The controversial export of fishmeal from occupied Western Sahara to Turkey in 2021 was worth somewhere around 64 million USD. (wsrw.org)