• Trade and other economic activities are controlled by the Moroccan government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The government-in-exile of the Polisario Front had also signed contracts for oil exploration, but there is no practical work, due to the fact that the zones given are in the Moroccan-controlled part of the territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2018, the European Court of Justice ruled that a fishing treaty between the EU and the Moroccan government did not include fishing grounds off the coast of 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)
  • This led to a reported shortage of gas in both Morocco and also Spain, which had previously received gas supplies through the Gazoduc Maghreb Europe (GME) pipeline, despite claims made by Moroccan officials that the move would have little impact. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Advocacy groups like the Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) contest the legality of foreign businesses, like Kosmos, working with the Moroccan government to exploit Western Saharan resources. (ipsnews.net)
  • WASHINGTON, Mar 11 2014 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara. (ipsnews.net)
  • The Moroccan government hopes to capitalise on its 2006 free trade agreement with the United States and encourage U.S. investment in the country by presenting it as a gateway to European, Middle Eastern and African markets. (ipsnews.net)
  • There's a lot going on in Morocco, and the question is how can it leverage what it has to attract American investments to Morocco that can then be directed to a European market or south to the African markets," Jean AbiNader, the executive director of the Moroccan American Trade and Investment Centre, a non-profit established by Morocco's King Mohammed VI, told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • While international investors in renewable energy have long favoured Morocco, enabling the construction of solar plants and wind farms, U.S. and European corporations are also rushing to take advantage of concessions for possible oil reserves, some of which are potentially located in the Western Sahara, which many people view as under Moroccan occupation. (ipsnews.net)
  • Sahrawis [indigenous Western Saharans] are standing on the sidelines of this project, waving their arms and telling companies to stop doing this on behalf of the Moroccan government. (ipsnews.net)
  • Unlike Morocco, the Polisario Front did not want to allow Moroccan settlers in the Western Sahara to participate in the referendum. (ipsnews.net)
  • To date, no other state recognises Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara, which is on the United Nations list of Non Self-Governing Territories. (ipsnews.net)
  • Last December the Moroccan ambassador to Russia, Abdelkader Lecheheb, told the state press agency Sputnik that trade was the priority in the relationship between the governments. (johnhelmer.net)
  • We have wonderful relations with Morocco, though it is strange that we have been seeing a certain reduction in trade, specifically in certain traditional Moroccan goods. (johnhelmer.net)
  • But last year turnover plunged 34%, as Russian exports of oil and petroleum dropped sharply following the bankruptcy of the Moroccan refinery company responsible for handling the Russian products. (johnhelmer.net)
  • Alexander Tkachev, the Russian Minister of Agriculture, said during the meetings with the Moroccan delegation last week said that Morocco is one of the suppliers Russia is looking to in order to replace the European Union supplies now subject to counter-sanctions. (johnhelmer.net)
  • reports Fighting has erupted in several areas between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence, after the Moroccan military broke into a no-go buffer zone in southern Western Sahara. (parkindymedia.org)
  • The company Kerr-McGee Corporation 3 Through its subsidiary Kerr-McGee du Maroc Ltd. entered in 2001 into a contract with the governmental Moroccan oil company ONAREP regarding geological and geophysical studies off shore Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • Moroccan authorities describe Western Sahara as "Moroccan Saharan Provinces", and claim sovereignty over the area. (regjeringen.no)
  • According to the UN, however, Western Sahara is still a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and, as such, not subject to Moroccan sovereignty. (regjeringen.no)
  • In 2002, the petroleum companies TotalEnergies and Kerr-McGee were awarded contracts to explore for oil in the region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shares in the US Kerr-McGee was previously withdrawn from the Norwegian Government's Pension Fund because it was involved in oil exploration offshore Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • In 2002, Morocco awarded contracts for oil exploration in the Western Sahara to a U.S.-based company, Kerr McGee, and the French-based Total S.A. In response, the United Nations issued what is known as the Corell Opinion regarding the legality of resource extraction in Western Sahara. (ipsnews.net)
  • In a letter from the Ministry of Finance dated 12 December 2004, the Petroleum Fund's Council on Ethics was asked to assess whether the investments by the Fund in the company Kerr-McGee could constitute a violation of the Ethical Guidelines for the Government Petroleum Fund. (regjeringen.no)
  • The background for this request was that the Minister of Finance had received letters from the Western Sahara Support Committee and the Government of the SADR (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic), asking him to disinvest from the Fund's investments in the company Kerr-McGee Corporation. (regjeringen.no)
  • With Israel's normalization, the feud between Algeria and Morocco is escalating. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Dubbed North Africa's new 'Cold War', the tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria threaten to escalate and the consequences of this have a lot more to do with Western meddling in the affairs of the two countries than meets the eye. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Algeria justified its move further by citing examples, such as Morocco using the Israeli Pegasus spyware against Algerian officials, supporting terrorists groups, failing to uphold bilateral commitments, the normalisation of ties with Israel, and refusing to engage diplomatically on the Western Sahara issue. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Although many of the accusations made against Morocco by Algeria have been strongly denied, they nonetheless have a real impact on public perception of the two sides. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • He said that "first you are going to have them [Algeria and Morocco] seeking regional supremacy, through the arms race that we have been seeing for nearly a decade now, but also through the diplomatic race. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • 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)
  • You can find everything from tropical forests in French-speaking Benin to the Sahara Desert in Algeria. (fluentu.com)
  • Algeria accused its neighbour Morocco of killing three people in an attack on the edge of the contested territory of Western Sahara on April 12. (vifdatabase.com)
  • Economy of Morocco Legal status of Western Sahara Western Saharan cuisine Western Sahara portal The World Factbook. (wikipedia.org)
  • More controversially, Kosmos now intends to start oil exploration in an area off the Western Saharan coast, known as Cap Boujdour, in October. (ipsnews.net)
  • After calling for Western Saharan independence from Spain, Morocco took control of the territory, which it calls the Southern Provinces, in 1976 after the Spanish withdrew. (ipsnews.net)
  • Since then, however, both multinational energy firms and Western Saharan advocacy groups have construed the U.N. opinion to favour their respective stances. (ipsnews.net)
  • 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)
  • During a press conference last week, Polisario invited the Union to conversations on continuation of fisheries offshore Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Following years of armed conflict between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, the international community established the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) in 1991. (ipsnews.net)
  • 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)
  • Mohammed, whose Alouite dynasty has ruled Morocco for 350 years, hasn't been to Moscow since 2002. (johnhelmer.net)
  • Rabat has denied most of the charges laid out against it by the Algerian government. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • Government and business leaders from the United States and Morocco are gathering in Rabat this week for the second annual Morocco-U.S. Business Development Conference. (ipsnews.net)
  • 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)
  • The US-based firm Kosmos Energy began a contract to explore offshore from Western Sahara in 2013, prompting criticism from activist groups such as Western Sahara Resource Watch. (wikipedia.org)
  • One such firm is the Texas-based Kosmos Energy, which has already begun offshore hydrocarbon exploration in three blocks of Morocco's AgadirBasin. (ipsnews.net)
  • Moreover, intra-EAC trade in agricultural products witnessed a remarkable 33 per cent growth from 2018 to 2022. (tralac.org)
  • Mr Sebastian Frey, Senior Trading Manager - Long Products Steel Trading, Americas, Tata International has won the 2022 Sustainability Award from Tata Sons North America. (aryawadwalkar.com)
  • Can AI address Africa's agricultural trade deficit? (tralac.org)
  • A nearly thirty-year-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara-what many consider to be Africa's last colony. (parkindymedia.org)
  • EWOS avslutter kjøp av fiskeolje fra Marokko og Vest-Sahara" (in Norwegian). (wikipedia.org)
  • A Japanese-Canadian vessel that transported conflict phosphate from occupied Western Sahara was yesterday received by a floating protest in New Zealand. (wsrw.org)
  • Ravensdown is "risking potentially disruptive direct action by refusing to allow port workers to register their protest at the importing of Blood Phosphate from the Western Sahara", says the New Zealand Rail and Maritime Transport Union. (wsrw.org)
  • The Chinese company China Molybdenum - which imported phosphate rock to its subsidiary in Brazil - will no longer purchase phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Mexican imports of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara is picking up pace. (wsrw.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)
  • 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)
  • In 2015, a European court invalidated a trade deal between the European Union (EU) and Morocco that involved Western Sahara, prompting a diplomatic backlash from Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco obviously normalized relations with Israel so it's expanding its diplomatic influence. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In October 1975, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected claims from Morocco and Mauritania regarding their alleged sovereignty over the territory. (regjeringen.no)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • The Swiss-Russian company EuroChem was most likely behind a controversial imports of conflict minerals to Estonia in October. (wsrw.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • Over the course of three days, the delegation reaffirmed bilateral ties the two countries have established over the last seven decades, convening with key government officials of the Joe Biden administration as well as members of the US Congress. (baidums.com)
  • The delegation also explored the next stage for the economic partnership and diverse cooperation opportunities in a meeting with the White House's Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell, the main highlight of the trip. (baidums.com)
  • By 2030, half of Morocco's wind energy production could be generated illegally in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • According to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Security Council has not recognised Morocco's annexation of Western Sahara, and Norway sees it as important to abstain from actions that can be seen as a legitimisation of the situation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • At this week's conference, participating energy companies, such as Dow Chemical, were given the option to attend sessions on Morocco's energy sector, highlighting the potential for both renewable and carbon-based investment in the kingdom. (ipsnews.net)
  • The Corell Opinion recognises Morocco as the de facto administrative power of Western Sahara. (ipsnews.net)
  • Overall, the trade between Russia and Morocco is very small - less than 1% of Russia's aggregate trade turnover. (johnhelmer.net)
  • The bay of Mogán at Gran Canary Island will next week be covered in conflict sand from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • It should be said that most Israeli cybersecurity companies develop decent and kosher products. (business-humanrights.org)
  • citation needed] Key agricultural products from Western Sahara include fruits and vegetables (grown in the few oases), as well as camels, sheep and goats. (wikipedia.org)
  • Industry sources in Moscow identify three Russian companies as the largest importers of fruit and vegetables from Morocco - Globus, Baltfruit, and Nevskaya. (johnhelmer.net)
  • Jinhui Shipping said Wednesday that it will take into consideration the analysis of Norwegian authorities regarding avoiding trade with phosphates from Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • We respect the Norwegian authorities recommending not to ship phosphates from Western Sahara", said Jinhui vice president Raymond Ching at a conference on the fourth quarter results. (vest-sahara.no)
  • To blame for the attack, according to the authorities, was "the Zionist entity [Israel]" and a "North African country," broadly interpreted to have meant Morocco. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • 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)
  • The majority of the territory of Western Sahara is currently administered by the Kingdom of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Spanish company today, yet again, refers to the territory as part of Morocco. (wsrw.org)
  • Western Sahara, a Spanish protectorate since 1884, was, according to the provisions of the UN Charter, established as a Non-Self-Governing Territory in 1963. (regjeringen.no)
  • The agreement did not alter the status of Western Sahara as Non-Self-Governing Territory under the UN. (regjeringen.no)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Turkey has become the leading importer of fishmeal from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • Although his officials meet their Russian counterparts at an annual inter-government ministerial conference, the king hasn't patronized the meeting before. (johnhelmer.net)
  • It was the fund manager Hans Thrane-Nielsen in the [Norwegian insurance company] Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning who asked the question in the telephone conference. (vest-sahara.no)
  • The aquaculture company Gümüşdoğa turns the meal into valuable fisheries products for the European market. (wsrw.org)
  • In a move that surprised no one, the EU Council has appealed the recent EU Court of Justice stopping EU trade and fisheries in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.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)
  • The"barbaric attack," as described by Ennahar, Algeria's national broadcaster, killed 3 Algerians and generated a large outpour of rage from the Algerian government. (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
  • That's a question which should have been answered in his briefing papers, especially since the trade has already begun to recover strongly. (johnhelmer.net)
  • 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)
  • Morocco is not willing to allow the people the right to self-determination today, and the oil industry is becoming an obstacle in terms of putting pressure in Morocco to accept that right. (ipsnews.net)
  • As such, the majority of the economic activity of Western Sahara happens in the framework of the economy of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • A gas pipeline is scheduled from Nigeria to Morocco - through Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The United States has approved a nearly $1bn weapons sale to Nigeria after legislators had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights abuses by the Nigerian government. (vifdatabase.com)
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  • As part of a broader community engagement process, a community panel was set up to help water management company Coliban Water address concerns around the future of water needs in the area and how to respond to infrastructure demands and a changing climate. (participedia.net)
  • Scotland's first citizens assembly on climate change brought together over 100 citizens representative of Scotland to learn and deliberate over the topic of climate change to create and submit recommendations and goals for the government to respond to. (participedia.net)
  • In the Agreement, Spain confirmed her intentions of contributing to the decolonisation of Western Sahara, and to transfer the duties as Administrative Power to Morocco and Mauritania. (regjeringen.no)
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  • 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)
  • Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah said his government is ready to hold general elections this year. (vifindia.org)
  • The Council on Ethics has decided to make the following recommendation to the Ministry of Finance, which, according to point 4.5 of the Ethical Guidelines, shall be submitted to the company for comments. (regjeringen.no)
  • Its aim was to achieve independence for Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • MINURSO intended the referendum to determine whether the Western Sahara would become an independent state or part of Morocco, but the vote was never able to be implemented due to disagreements over who was eligible to take part. (ipsnews.net)
  • Subsequently Morocco invaded parts of Western Sahara, which led to strong reactions from the Security Council. (regjeringen.no)
  • Support groups for the people in Western Sahara claims Jinhui on numerous occasions have transported phosphates from there to New Zealand and Australia, and have posted a video of the bulk vessel 'Jin Cheng' discharging the fertilizer ingredient ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=M-1zk-s1Olo ). (vest-sahara.no)
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  • But it also states that "while the specific contracts … are not in themselves illegal, if further exploration and exploitation activities were to proceed in disregard of the interests and wishes of the people of Western Sahara, they would be in violation of the principles of international law applicable to mineral resource activities in Non-Self-Governing Territories. (ipsnews.net)
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  • Furthermore, French is widely used in commerce and trade in Morocco, which makes the country of extra-special interest if you want to learn business French or plan to use your French to further your career at some point. (fluentu.com)
  • The obstacle-laden business environment at home is also encouraging Indian companies to explore other frontiers in their quest for profits. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. (business-humanrights.org)
  • In 2010, the Dutch company Fugro promised to never again undertake operations in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Dutch government clarifies the content of the ship. (wsrw.org)
  • The company behind the exploration blames its Dutch client. (wsrw.org)
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  • The 300 MW farm is the first of the two wind farms that Italian company Enel Green Power and Germany's Siemens will build together on occupied land. (wsrw.org)
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  • Desertec, a Munich-based solar energy company, declined to place a plant in Western Sahara for "reputational reasons. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Italian company Enel is one of the firms that have taken the exact same approach as the EU when carrying out 'stakeholder consultations' in Western Sahara - a procedure now found invalid by the EU Court of Justice. (wsrw.org)
  • Saharawis in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrated as a cargo vessel is arriving to pick up more controversial windmill components for occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Later that year, Spain entered into an agreement with Morocco and Mauritania concerning the transfer of power over Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
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