• Companies that want to be perceived as taking human rights responsibly, should not bid on a large tender that will connect Morocco's illegal energy production in Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid, WSRW warns. (wsrw.org)
  • Up to 81% of all land that the Moroccan government has allocated for new, gigantic plans for renewable energy, green hydrogen and ammonia, is located outside of Morocco's international borders, in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Throughout its impact studies, relations with the Moroccan government and partners, and a recent announcement of arrival of windmills to occupied Western Sahara, Engie has shown a total disregard for the UN's approach to the conflict. (wsrw.org)
  • The German insurance company Allianz goes all in when it politically defends the brutal Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • A private Chinese battery manufacturer denies rumours from the Moroccan government that it had planned gigantic and potentially highly controversial investments in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The UN recognised representation of the people of Western Sahara is today meeting with Canary fishermen to explore continued fishing opportunities as the EU-Moroccan fisheries are coming to an end. (wsrw.org)
  • Moroccan fertiliser company Office Cherifien de Phosphate (OCP), the world's leading phosphate exporter, reported 2015 net profit up % yearonyear to billion dirhams () on Tuesday, attributing the rise to higher output. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Over the past few days, the Moroccan navy has rescued almost 900 illegal migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, including 400 in territorial waters, according to a military source, while attempts to cross to Spain have multiplied. (africacenter.org)
  • 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)
  • 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 have informed the Office of the Legal Adviser of the UN that the contract contains "standard options for the relinquishment of the rights under the contract or its continuation, including an option for future oil contracts in the respective areas or parts thereof. (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)
  • Western Sahara is home to the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, a Sahrawi rebel national liberation movement aiming to end Moroccan presence in the territory. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • In 1991, Moroccan forces and Sahrawi rebels agreed on a UN-brokered truce and a referendum to settle the status of Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • The Sahrawi have little access to these resources, as many of the workers are Moroccan citizens who immigrated to Western Sahara to work in the industries. (iijd.org)
  • Resources originating from the territory of Western Sahara are marketed by the Moroccan government as originating from Morocco, and companies wishing to take advantage of the resources present in the territory contract through the Moroccan government or Moroccan businesses. (iijd.org)
  • Moroccan controlled mines employ predominantly Moroccan employees, take phosphorus belonging to the Sahrawi and sell it to foreign companies under the Moroccan name. (iijd.org)
  • Silver and lead production in Morocco are the highest in Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • The exploited laborers are the people of color extracting the minerals in the Congo and Latin America, the armies of cheap labor annotating artificial intelligence data in China and Africa and the Asian workers suffering from PTSD after cleansing social media platforms of disturbing content. (roarmag.org)
  • But America is still recognizing the coup leader in Venezuela, is silent on Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara, is continuing Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capitol while accepting the importance of Israel's hold on the Golan Heights and is only cautiously correcting course on Cuba. (antiwar.com)
  • The dusty, sunparched deserts of Central and Southwestern Morocco do not bring agricultural development to mind, but Morocco's Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) is playing a growing role in that sector. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Morocco's Phosphate Giant OCP Buys 20% of Spain's Leading Fertilizer Company. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Benguérir Phosphates Mine, Morocco Located 70km north of Marrakesh, Benguérir is the newest of Morocco's four phosphate mining centres, having started production in 1979-80. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • However, he stressed that rejoining of the body did not mean an change in Morocco's stance on Western Sahara. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • NewMed's gas exploration licence offshore occupied Western Sahara is "illegal", Polisario lashes out in a release. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • After a war in which the Frente POLISARIO was victorious, Mauritania and the Frente POLISARIO entered into an agreement in which Mauritania renounced all claims over Western Sahara. (iijd.org)
  • This gave the Frente POLISARIO control over approximately one-third of the territory, leaving Morocco with the other two-thirds. (iijd.org)
  • Three civilians including two children have been killed in cross-border missile attacks from Yemen on a residential area in southwestern Saudi Arabia, civil defence authorities said. (kaos.gr)
  • 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)
  • Morocco withdrew from the AU in 1984, when the mineral-rich and sparsely populated Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) - commonly known as Western Sahara - was accepted as a member. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Morocco has made an official request to join the African Union (AU) again more than four decades after leaving the pan-African bloc in protest at Western Sahara's membership. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Morocco currently controls the majority of Western Sahara's natural resources in the form of fisheries, phosphates and iron ore, and other resources. (iijd.org)
  • Morocco maintains partial or full state ownership in several sectors, from phosphate mining to transportation. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Morocco maintains that Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom, but the international community has not recognized the annexation. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Morocco maintains the position that it has the legal right to control Western Sahara, and currently controls not only the government, but the natural resources as well. (iijd.org)
  • The measurements are approximate , since it is a natural mineral ring carved in one piece. (basicsbyluamarta.com)
  • Morocco is the world's largest producer of phosphate, and contains about 75% of the world's estimated reserves. (wikipedia.org)
  • Already the world's largest exporter of phosphate rock ore, Morocco is a growing player in the global phosphate industry. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Mohammed, whose Alouite dynasty has ruled Morocco for 350 years, hasn't been to Moscow since 2002. (johnhelmer.net)
  • The UN Legal Counsel addressed the Security Council in 2002 stating that the use of mineral resources by an administering power of a non-self-governing territory is legal unless "conducted in disregard of the needs and interests of the people of that territory. (iijd.org)
  • This week, the first components that will be used for Engie' highly problematic windmill programme in Western Sahara have arrived to the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • So what exactly did King Mohammed VI of Morocco negotiate with President Putin at the Kremlin last week? (johnhelmer.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)
  • For the first time, the USA is the biggest exporter of gas into Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • With an estimated 70% of the world's phosphate resources, Morocco is the largest global producer and largest exporter of the multiuse mineral according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • Once we get all the bids in by September 30, we hope to award the licences by end of this year but more likely in January next year," said Robert Kasande, the permanent secretary at Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. (co.ke)
  • Such is the competition for Mozambique's mining permits that the government has threatened to revoke licences from companies that do not quickly develop their concessions. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Phosphates, lead, fluorine, and antimony are found in the Atlantic coast over a stretch of 60-120 kilometres (37-75 mi), and also in central Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2005, Morocco produced 27,254 million tons of phosphates and 5,895 million tons of phosphate derivatives. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • mining net benguerir phosphates mine mining net benguerir phosphates mine_Benguerir Mining AtlasBenguerir is a Phosphate Mine in Morocco owned by OCP. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
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  • 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)
  • From early May, the Royal Air Maroc ran a propaganda campaign in Strasbourg selling trips to the occupied territory of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The French company Alcatel has been observed working on the telecom cables into the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The French insurance company has posted a video of its local leaders having a wonderful time in the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • 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)
  • In lieu of a referendum on self-determination, Spain ceded administrative control of the territory to Morocco and Mauritania, two nations that asserted claims over regions in the occupied territory. (iijd.org)
  • This did not change the status of Western Sahara as a non-self-governing territory, and prolonged the referendum. (iijd.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)
  • Its aim was to achieve independence for Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • Overall, the trade between Russia and Morocco is very small - less than 1% of Russia's aggregate trade turnover. (johnhelmer.net)
  • The latest television station to be banned by the Superior Council for Communication, a government media regulator, is the French news channel La Chaîne Info (LCI). (africacenter.org)
  • Government reports regard Morocco as a "peripheral market with low effective demand. (johnhelmer.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)
  • Meanwhile, the government has reverted to paying the money it owes large companies in Congolese francs, drawing the ire of the business community. (africanarguments.org)
  • In October, the government announced measures to cushion the effects of currency depreciation, including reducing import taxes and making available hard currency to import basic foodstuffs such as sugar and palm oil. (africanarguments.org)
  • Mr Kasande said that the government was waiting for more international companies to make their applications before issuing invitation of detailed bids. (co.ke)
  • 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)
  • About six years ago, the Indiana-based company Sunrise Coal, LLC sought to buy the mineral rights underlying farms in Vermillion County. (truthout.org)
  • Not only were the Smiths upset about the prospect of mining nearby, the company was planning to build a 500-acre above-ground coal processing facility and rail transfer point, all in close proximity to their farm. (truthout.org)
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  • The Western Sahara republic yesterday announced the signing of a new onshore mineral exploration licence. (wsrw.org)
  • Uganda has pushed back the licensing round for five new oil blocks in the Albertine Graben to September 30, 2020, following low interest from exploration companies. (co.ke)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • French HDF Energy announces its partnership in gigantic green hydrogen production project in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • which is recognized weak bare shop in renewable years, also including Pidgins of advantage and Pluto. (rosencpagroup.com)
  • Images have appeared of highly controversial windmills on Canary Islands, in transit for Engie's project in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The controversial 300 MW Boujdour wind farm - owned by Enel and supplied by Siemens Gamesa - has been commissioned in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Another controversial wind farm - Aftissat II - is about to be finalised in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco has an ancient history of extraction of minerals for enhancing its economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1920, mineral extraction was reported in the Rif in the area of Melilla, where there were three iron mines as well as one working lead and zinc ore. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mining sector is poised for increased participation of private sector companies and also in the fuel sector in natural gas and petroleum extraction. (wikipedia.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)
  • The Kenya Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources is developing a National Environmental Policy aimed at strengthening existing development strategies and sectoral policies for. (afrik-news.com)
  • He also put forward changes to the residence permission law in Germany, noting that the reforms would see many more applicants "voluntarily" leave the western European state. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • This is especially the case since the reforms' impacts - including desperately needed diversification of the mining-dependent economy - will only be felt in the medium-to-long term at best. (africanarguments.org)
  • He arrived in Moscow on February 23, one day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with a delegation that did not include any SAF representatives. (aberfoylesecurity.com)
  • Subsequently Morocco invaded parts of Western Sahara, which led to strong reactions from the Security Council. (regjeringen.no)
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  • Western Sahara is an area rich in natural resources. (iijd.org)
  • This civil war, marked by the involvement of foreign states like Cuba, and fueled by the context of the Cold War and by the rivalries around the country's mineral resources, caused roughly 1 million deaths and left millions of mines anti-personnel who still kill. (thechiefobserver.com)
  • The management teams also have control over the country's natural resources, notably oil, and over the main companies. (thechiefobserver.com)
  • Reserve base, includes those resources that are currently economic (reserves), marginally economic, and some of those that are currently sub-economic. (topcropmanager.com)
  • I see a lot of little mineral companies list on their sites: multi purpose minerals - contains mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxides. (tkbtrading.com)
  • This file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows an African Union summit at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
  • Western Sahara republic expresses wish to be included in UN-led climate governance. (wsrw.org)
  • Later that year, Spain entered into an agreement with Morocco and Mauritania concerning the transfer of power over Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • 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)
  • Mr Kasande told The EastAfrican that six local and international companies had expressed interest to vie for five oil blocks on offer, but could not give details citing confidentiality rules. (co.ke)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco has officially submitted a request to accede to the African Union Constitutive Act, and therefore, become a Member of the Union," the statement read. (cameroonconcordnews.com)
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  • Mining legislation in force includes the Mining code Bill no. 1-73-412 of August 13, 1973, and corresponding orders of the Directorate of Mines. (wikipedia.org)
  • The stewardship responsibilities of agriculture include the wise use of the raw materials from which commercial fertilizers are produced. (topcropmanager.com)
  • Most people don't realize that phosphorus, which mainly comes from phosphate rock, is a limited resource that is primarily concentrated in geopolitically unstable regions including Morocco and the Western Sahara. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Roldós warned all foreign oil companies that if their activities did not benefit the people of Ecuador, they would be forced out of Ecuador. (antiwar.com)
  • The World Heritage status for Victoria Falls is under siege after hotel companies and environmental groups voiced their concerns on plans to increase flights over. (afrik-news.com)
  • New report: Morocco uses green energy to embellish its occupation. (wsrw.org)
  • 2011 Minerals Yearbook: Morocco And Western Sahara [Advance Release]" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco must immediately release a group of leading human rights defenders, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demands. (wsrw.org)
  • Being the third largest phosphate producer in the world most of the mining activities in Morocco are centered on phosphate. (gpo-energie-verte.be)
  • This assumption in no way reflects a probable future, as only minimal amounts of residuals produced today are returned to agricultural soils due to many factors," she said, one of which is that farmers are not that eager to accept biogas residuals as a suitable substitute for mineral phosphorus. (sciencedaily.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)
  • Nevertheless, riding on high mineral prices, Congo's GDP growth averaged 7.7% from 2010 to 2015. (africanarguments.org)