• 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • When will we show some respect for the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination? (left.eu)
  • 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)
  • The area 446550km2 excludes all disputed territories, while 710850km2 includes the Moroccan-claimed and partially-controlled parts of Western Sahara (claimed as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic by the Polisario Front ). (explained.today)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara and administers the territory that it controls. (state.gov)
  • After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the 'liberation' of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. (wsrw.org)
  • If the answer to the first question was in the negative, it also requested the International Court of Justice to rule on the issue of the legal ties between Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco and the Mauritanian entity. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . (explained.today)
  • However, Morocco has persistently worked to defer the referendum, which has still not taken place. (left.eu)
  • 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)
  • 6 On 20 August 1974, the Kingdom of Spain informed the UN that it proposed to organise a referendum in Western Sahara under UN auspices. (wsrw.org)
  • Furthermore, the UN General Assembly called upon the Kingdom of Spain, which it treated as the administering power, to postpone the referendum that it was planning to organise in Western Sahara until the General Assembly had decided on the policy to be pursued in order to accelerate the decolonisation process in the territory. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • The region constituting Morocco has been inhabited since the Paleolithic era over 300,000 years ago, and the first Moroccan state was established by Idris I in 788. (explained.today)
  • 8 On 16 October 1975, the International Court of Justice handed down the Advisory Opinion requested (Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports 1975, p. 12). (wsrw.org)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • 2 On 14 December 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation ('the UN') adopted Resolution 1514 (XV) on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. (wsrw.org)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • In 1967, for example, the Biafran war commenced as the people of eastern Nigeria sought their own independence (I supported Biafran freedom) and in 1976 Western Sahara was granted independence but was immediately seized by neighbouring Morocco (which has led to a continuing conflict). (thepoliticalsword.com)
  • Following intermittent riots and revolts against colonial rule, in 1956, Morocco regained its independence and reunified. (explained.today)
  • Since independence, Morocco has remained relatively stable. (explained.today)
  • 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)
  • Many of the land tenure challenges identified then still persist today, although it is to be hoped that the prospects are brighter for addressing these issues in the near future, given the adoption of the National Land Use Policy (NLUP) in 2016 (Government of Myanmar, 2016). (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • 1 Western Sahara is a territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the north-east, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast faces the Atlantic. (wsrw.org)
  • The great news is that online education and e-learning has the power to knock down the geographical barriers to close the skill gap and ensure that everyone in Africa with access to the internet can attain a good education. (africabusinesscommunities.com)
  • The 21st Century is bringing with it high tech internet and computer availability for countless millions across the continent of Africa, and the number of people with access is growing every day. (africabusinesscommunities.com)
  • The Indian Ocean is a vital geopolitical hub that connects trade routes in Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Australia. (africacenter.org)
  • Assis Malaquias, a former Professor and Academic Chair of Defense Economics and Resource Management at the Africa Center, shares his insights on the relevance of the Western Indian Ocean in the larger maritime safety and security agenda on the African continent. (africacenter.org)
  • Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government have established control over Tripoli's international airport, according to a Libyan military official. (africacenter.org)
  • Forces affiliated with the unity government reportedly took control of the airport following the withdrawal of forces loyal to Libya's self-proclaimed "salvation government", which also remains based in Tripoli. (africacenter.org)
  • Neither of Libya's governments can declare victory without full control of the resource-rich south. (aberfoylesecurity.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)
  • The fighting also underscored the security and logistical challenges British investigators could face if they consider visiting Libya to pursue clues in the Manchester concert suicide bombing that killed 22 people this week. (africacenter.org)
  • South-western Libya, the Fezzan region, is a vast desert spotted with lucrative oil fields, oases, long-range trade routes and deep sub-desert aquifers. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary national legislative system under which ultimate authority rests with King Mohammed VI, who presides over the Council of Ministers. (state.gov)
  • [16] Morocco is a unitary semi- constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. (explained.today)
  • The Saharan coast from Morocco to Senegal represents the most extensive, windiest and least populated region worldwide that is reached by the European electricity grid. (evwind.es)
  • Utilizing the most western capes of Morocco's central Atlantic coastline (cape Sim) where Trade Winds can be tapped on these Northern latitudes, the Amogdoul wind farm is expected to produce some 210 GWH of electricity, and enable the reduction of 156.000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. (evwind.es)
  • EU must stop legitimising oppression of Saharawi people! (left.eu)
  • 5 To McKay, England was, as he put it in one of his poems, the 'arch conspirator' in the oppression of black people. (manchesterhive.com)
  • Port Sudan is a politically unstable city that serves as Sudan's primary connection to international trade routes. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • Meanwhile, the internationally recognized Tripoli authorities, the Government of National Accord (GNA), are unlikely to make inroads in the south given that they have long neglected the region and do not have deep pocketed sponsors such as Haftar has in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • The Federal Government of Somalia remained committed to regional counterterrorism efforts that aim to eliminate al-Shabaab's access to safe haven in Somalia. (state.gov)
  • Both are in the custody of a counterterrorism militia aligned with the Western-backed government. (africacenter.org)
  • A people who endure, who just want to live their lives, enjoy basic rights free from violence, to be citizens of their own country. (left.eu)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • In his defense, Prime Minister Berlinguer points out that it was the previous Christian Democrat government which let Khomeini into the country in the first place. (talkelections.org)
  • Spencer surveys Muhammad's articulation from a website of husband and Food into a 21st and fictive person who accepted his country by content of people, following his vessels very prior ia in Paradise if they sent yielded in his video. (weirdvideos.com)
  • As seen in other parts of the world, online courses such as an online MBA program, or an online Master program, can serve as a stand-alone source for official education if the university or college is accredited by the government of the country in which the learner resides, or in the country where the program has been devised. (africabusinesscommunities.com)
  • The 'Alawi dynasty , which rules the country to this day, seized power in 1631, and over the next two centuries expanded diplomatic and commercial relations with the Western world . (explained.today)
  • There were few examples of investigations or prosecutions of human rights abuses by officials, whether in the security services or elsewhere in the government, which contributed to impunity. (state.gov)
  • It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east , and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south . (explained.today)
  • 7 By Resolution 3292 (XXIX) on the Question of the Spanish Sahara, adopted on 13 December 1974, the UN General Assembly decided to request the International Court of Justice for an Advisory Opinion on whether Western Sahara (Rio de Oro and Sakiet El Hamra) was, at the time of its colonisation by the Kingdom of Spain, a territory belonging to no one (terra nullius). (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco also claims Ceuta and Melilla , making up about 22.8km2 more claimed territory. (explained.today)
  • The emails published by leading weekend papers the Sunday Times and the City Press, contain communication that reveal a great extent to which the Gupta family has exercised control over cabinet ministers, state enterprises, government policy and decisions. (africacenter.org)
  • Despite the success of coordinated African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) operations that drove al-Shabaab from former strongholds in Baardheere and Dinsoor, the terrorist organization managed to establish new safe havens from where it planned and launched attacks against government officials, AMISOM bases, and soft targets in Kenya and other parts of the region. (state.gov)
  • The Malian government has reestablished its political presence in the cities of Timbuktu and Gao, with some local government officials returning to their posts in 2015. (state.gov)
  • There is a rising amount of local and regional companies which provide products and materials for online courses and exam preparations, the classical fields of m-learning. (africabusinesscommunities.com)
  • So for example, by this criterion, the United States driver's license is excluded, as these are issued by local (state) governments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Speaking to local private television channel Al-Nabaa, Colonel Ibrahim Bayt al-Mal, a spokesman for the Misrata Military Council, confirmed that several battalions affiliated with the salvation government had withdrawn from the airport and its environs. (africacenter.org)
  • Local authorities are the best people to make these decisions on the ground. (parliament.uk)
  • Does the Minister agree that there is an inherent contradiction in a policy that announces that the Government will protect the original local Sure Start programmes in the most deprived areas, which I was proud to develop from 1997, while, with the so-called "localism programme", saying, "It is entirely the fault of the local authorities," which have been denied the money to maintain those programmes in the first place? (parliament.uk)
  • conserve, protect, maintain, restore, manage and use or arrange for utilization of natural resources, environment and biodiversity in a balanced and sustainable manner, provided that the relevant local people and local community shall be allowed to participate in and obtain the benefit from such undertaking as provided by law. (techsb.ca)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 26.465 people have been internally displaced from Murzuq to surrounding areas because of this round of fighting. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • By 2021, the new Sudanese government began having second thoughts about the deal and sought new terms that included economic aid ( The Arab Weekly , September 16, 2021). (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • and calls on the Government to make the necessary financial arrangements available to deal with this important matter. (parliament.uk)
  • Frederic Bancroft however shared the private view Y with Slave-Trading in the Old South( 1931). (lenasemmler.de)
  • 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)
  • Berlinguer has also had some success in reviving the Italian economy through mixed market and state initiatives, which the previous Christian Democrat government did not do, and as such his popularity increases. (talkelections.org)
  • Driver's licenses and other cards issued by state or regional governments indicating certain permissions are not counted here as national identity cards. (wikipedia.org)
  • Does she agree that such a cut could be a false economy, because one of Sure Start's great benefits is that it saves the state further expenditure down the line by improving outcomes for young people through early intervention? (parliament.uk)
  • A person and community shall have the rights to receive information, explanation and reasons from a State agency prior to the implementation or granting of permission under paragraph one. (techsb.ca)
  • The Antiguan and Barbudan national identity card is compulsory for voting as well as for different government transactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some people will only buy clothes made from sustainable materials, and others want insurance that their new shirt is not made by children on the other side of the world. (lu.se)
  • Government have made sure that the money is there in the early intervention grant, and why we have built on that by providing extra money for health visitors, through the Department of Health, and more money for things such as the family-nurse partnerships, which we know work on the ground and are often delivered through children's centres. (parliament.uk)
  • Decolonisation proceeded on the basis of boundaries that had been imposed by the colonial powers, often simply lines drawn on maps in European capitals that bore little relationship to the different peoples who made up the 'nations' within those borders. (thepoliticalsword.com)
  • This consolidates the Berlinguer government s hold on power, at least in the short term, as his opponents look opportunistic in their charges. (talkelections.org)
  • The maximum credit amount recommended by Cedar Rose for any large company is USD 10 million which is considered for short term credit up to 180 days. (cedar-rose.com)
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  • The Federal Government of Somalia and its regional administrations lacked the capacity and resources to fill security voids left in the wake of AMISOM's operations with civilian law enforcement. (state.gov)
  • Many demonstrate in search of social justice, against the assassination of activists, against the plundering of their natural resources by Morocco and the EU. (left.eu)
  • A few days before this statement, the French government cut official development assistance (ODA) to Mali because it believed that Mali's government is "allied to Wagner's Russian mercenaries. (midwesternmarx.com)
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  • There were no reports that the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings. (state.gov)
  • There were no reports of disappearances by or on behalf of government authorities during the year. (state.gov)
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  • Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta , Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera , and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. (explained.today)
  • On 10 December 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union annulled the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement in so far as it applies to Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • What this means is that cherry tomatoes from Western Sahara can be sold at the European market labeled as originating from Morocco. (lu.se)
  • But amid all of this - negotiations, votes, rulings, resolutions - the fate of the people of the Western Sahara is at issue. (left.eu)
  • Although the group continued to generate funds from the illicit trade of charcoal and other commodities, al-Shabaab leveraged tax collection to compensate for declining revenues after losing access to the port in Baraawe in 2014. (state.gov)
  • The Government have ensured that there is enough money in the system to maintain the network of Sure Start children's centres and have provided new investment for health visitors. (parliament.uk)
  • Spanish government has accorded Morocco a loan amounting to 100 million euros (135 million U.S. dollars) on the construction of the Tanger Wind-Energy Park. (evwind.es)
  • means you've safely connected to the .gov website. (state.gov)
  • 3 In 1963, following the transmission of information by the Kingdom of Spain pursuant to Article 73(e) of the Charter of the United Nations, the UN added Western Sahara to its list of non-self-governing territories. (wsrw.org)