Africa
- Morocco - sovereign country located in western North Africa. (wikipedia.org)
- 70.5 KB) Moroccousafta a site about the Morocco/US Free Trade Agreement Surveys and Studies Human Rights Watch on Morocco "Genetic structure of north-west Africa" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
- Riley later went on to find fame with his published journal Sufferings in Africa, describing his experiences as a slave in the Moroccan Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
- Pressure for the release of two Nigerian oilworkers' leaders will further increase at a conference to be held by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Pretoria, South Africa, on 13-18 April. (africafocus.org)
- Union leaders from all over Africa will press the continent's employers and governments to help secure the release of Milton Dabibi, General Secretary of oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, and Frank Kokori, General Secretary of oil and gas workers' union NUPENG. (africafocus.org)
- Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
- The Sahel is the transitional zone in between the Sahara and the tropical savanna of the Sudan region and farther south the forest-savanna mosaic of tropical Africa. (wikipedia.org)
- Since probably 3500 BCE, the Saharan and Sub-Saharan regions of Africa have been separated by the extremely harsh climate of the sparsely populated Sahara, forming an effective barrier interrupted by only the Nile in Sudan, though the Nile was blocked by the river's cataracts. (wikipedia.org)
- The Sahara pump theory explains how flora and fauna (including Homo sapiens) left Africa to penetrate the Middle East and beyond. (wikipedia.org)
- Commentators in Arabic in the medieval period used the general term bilâd as-sûdân ("Land of the Blacks") for the vast Sudan region (an expression denoting West and Central Africa), or sometimes extending from the coast of West Africa to Western Sudan. (wikipedia.org)
- The Sahel shoots across all of Africa at a latitude of about 10° to 15° N. Countries that include parts of the Sahara Desert proper in their northern territories and parts of the Sahel in their southern region include Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan. (wikipedia.org)
- The Karoo is a semi-desert in western South Africa. (wikipedia.org)
- Confirming this assumption, on CAF News number 30 of October 1987, Sudanese, Dr. Abdel Halim Mohammad, who had attended all the earlier meetings of the African Zone in FIFA that were concluded without opposition to Apartheid South Africa, had testified that Yidnekatchew's firm stand against Apartheid started in Khartoum when he insisted that the South African team should be a mixed team. (wikipedia.org)
- However, it relapsed again, after a three-man fact finding mission led by the newly elected president, Sir Stanley Rous, travelled to South Africa, and concluded that the National Football Federation had nothing to do with Government instituted Racial Discrimination. (wikipedia.org)
- During apartheid, the South African government aimed to establish Afrikaans as the primary lingua franca in South Africa and South African-controlled South-West Africa (now Namibia), although English was also in common use. (wikipedia.org)
- It is spoken mainly by Fula people, but is also used as a lingua franca by several populations of various origin, throughout Western Africa. (wikipedia.org)
WSRW
- Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) is a network organisation working on the natural resource situation in Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
- WSRW consists of organisations 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)
- The UN Legal Counsel, Ambassador Hans Corell expressed in 2002 that the natural resources management in Western Sahara only would be in line with international law if it took into account the "wishes and interests of the people of Western Sahara" WSRW works to inform international companies about the UN Legal Opinion and of the ethical aspects of business practice in the territory. (wikipedia.org)
- WSRW urges the Frente POLISARIO, Morocco and the United Nations to include on the agenda of the discussion the issue of natural resources of the territories occupied by Morocco. (ovimagazine.com)
- The Moroccan exploitation of the natural resources in Western Sahara contributes to the perpetuation and prolonging of the colonial domination of the territory and the suffering of its population, and impeding the resolution of the conflict', recalls the International Coordinator of WSRW, Javier García Lachica. (ovimagazine.com)
- Therefore', declares García Lachica, 'WSRW calls on all states and economic actors of the international community to abstain from contributing with their investments to maintaining the colonial situation in Western Sahara. (ovimagazine.com)
- In view of the ongoing negotiations, the WSRW requests all the countries and companies involved to stop their investments with a view to supporting the peace process, and urges the United Nations to put in place the necessary mechanisms, in conformity with international legality, that would contribute to protecting the natural resources of the territory pending a lasting solution to the conflict. (ovimagazine.com)
- The WSRW is an international non-governmental organisation with members from more than 30 countries that defends the respect for international law upholding the decolonisation of Western Sahara and the sovereignty of the Sahrawi people over their natural resources. (ovimagazine.com)
Moroccan
- 855 KB) (CSIS - The Center for Strategic and International Studies) Tourism and culture Morocco travel guide from Wikivoyage Biodiversity of South Western Morocco (Flora and Plant Communities of Morocco) Moroccan Dialectal Arabic lexicorient A reference site to plan its trip, and discover the country. (wikipedia.org)
occupied territories
- The organisation 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)
- The European Union and the Government of Morocco signed a fisheries agreement that allows European fishermen to fish in the occupied territories. (ovimagazine.com)
consists
- According to the UN, it consists of all African countries that are fully or partially located south of the Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
Libya
- The international reactions to the Libyan Civil War were the responses to the series of protests and military confrontations occurring in Libya against the government of Libya and its de facto head of state Muammar Gaddafi. (wikipedia.org)
- Later, after an emergency meeting on 22 February, the organisation suspended Libya from taking part in council meetings and Moussa issued a statement condemning the "crimes against the current peaceful popular protests and demonstrations in several Libyan cities. (wikipedia.org)
- However, Tuareg, a branch of the Berber languages, is still playing the role of a lingua franca to some extent in some vast parts of the Sahara Desert, especially in southern Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Libya. (wikipedia.org)
Cooperation
- it is also a member of the Arab League at present, Arab Maghreb Union, the Francophonie, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Mediterranean Dialogue group, and Group of 77, and is a major non-NATO ally of the United States. (wikipedia.org)
- And neighbouring Algeria has now invited Indian companies for undertaking a feasibility study for cooperation in its fertilizer sector. (investorintel.com)
conflict
- Pending resolution of the Western Sahara conflict. (wikipedia.org)
Sahel
- Arabic is also spoken as a trade language across the Sahara as far as the Sahel, including parts of Mali, Chad and Borno State in Nigeria. (wikipedia.org)
phosphate
- If you follow phosphate, keep a close eye on what is happening now in Morocco, home to more than half of the world's rock phosphate resources. (investorintel.com)
- This all comes as Morocco works on plans to double phosphate output through opening three new mines. (investorintel.com)
- The OCP is Morocco's largest industrial company which controls more than half the world's phosphate reserves. (investorintel.com)
- Indian news reports say the plant will use around 1.4 million tonnes of Tunisian rock phosphate per year, producing 360,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid annually. (investorintel.com)
- The company owns the 1,206 sq km Tilemsi phosphate project in that country. (investorintel.com)
- The company was convinced that there was a substantial market in Mali and neighbouring states for phosphate rock. (investorintel.com)
Algeria
- Morocco has international borders with Algeria to the east, Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with two small Spanish autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla), and a disputed border with Mauritania to the south. (wikipedia.org)
- Algeria for 30 years has backed the Polisario Front, the organisation battling for self-determination for Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony seized by Morocco. (investorintel.com)
- Well, it seems from news reports that, to quote one, there is now occurring "an outburst of hostile rhetoric between Morocco and Algeria (reflecting) a historic animosity rooted in irreconcilable differences" over Western Sahara. (investorintel.com)
Desert
- Today Willshire is best remembered as the man who redeemed, cared for and helped repatriate hundreds of Western sailors enslaved in the Sultanate of Morocco during the early part of the 19th century, including Captain James Riley, Robert Adams, and Captain Alexander Scott, all of whom would later write and publish harrowing accounts of their hardships endured as slaves in the desert. (wikipedia.org)
United Nations
- Many members of the international community, including the United Nations, the Arab League, and the African Union, explicitly recognized the anti-Gaddafi National Transitional Council as Libya's legitimate representative, with many of those countries explicitly describing it as the legal interim government of the country due to the perceived loss of legitimacy on the part of Gaddafi's regime. (wikipedia.org)
recipient
- Willshire was also recipient of many notes of thanks from organisations and individuals for his humanitarian work in Mogadore during his tenure as Vice Consul there, including in 1821 being elected honorary member of the Massachusetts Peace Society, receiving an award of $45 with the title. (wikipedia.org)
countries
- Virtually all Western countries cut off diplomatic relations with Gaddafi's government over an aerial bombing campaign in February and March, and a number of other countries led by Peru and Botswana did likewise. (wikipedia.org)
- Many countries, particularly in Western Europe, reduced their voting ages to 18 years during the 1970s, starting with the United Kingdom (1970), with the United States (26th Amendment) (1971), Canada, Australia (1974), France and others following soon afterwards. (wikipedia.org)
- Fula is spoken in all countries directly south of the Sahara (such as Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Mali. (wikipedia.org)
Virtually
- The report contained several observations made by official agencies on the criminal network which was virtually running a parallel government. (wikipedia.org)
Foreign Aid
- 108 KB) revealed by STR analysis "Arab Reform and Foreign Aid - Lessons from Morocco" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
- Robert Chimedza (1998) underlines the need to resist the cultural imperialism of foreign aid agencies dictating agendas, for Southern deaf organisations, that suit the ideologies of far distant societies. (independentliving.org)
Jordan
- It is usually considered to include the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Israel, and in some definitions, some parts of western Jordan. (wikipedia.org)
situation
- This posting contains several recent updates from the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) concerning imprisoned trade union leaders, international oil companies and the human rights situation in Nigeria. (africafocus.org)
territory
- Since 2006 the organisation 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 declarative theory defines a state as a person in international law if it meets the following criteria: a defined territory a permanent population a government, and a capacity to enter into relations with other states. (wikipedia.org)
- There are, for example, entities which meet the declarative criteria (with de facto partial or complete control over their claimed territory, a government and a permanent population), but whose statehood is not recognised by any other states. (wikipedia.org)
- See list of governments in exile for unrecognised governments without control over the territory claimed. (wikipedia.org)
- Abstaining from carrying out investments in the occupied territory of Western Sahara is the most constructive way to support the ongoing negotiations process. (ovimagazine.com)
people
- The organisation was established in 2004, and works in solidarity with the Saharawi people. (wikipedia.org)
- The company employs 18,000 people and indirectly supports more than 40,000 jobs across Morocco. (investorintel.com)
- Its spaces and groups do a request for all relations of research: important people, perspectives for something and news settings, items for customers, and master for Web skills, practical time and many time writers. (qualitysavers.to)
continent
- The commission includes African union representatives, as well as employer and government delegates from across the continent. (africafocus.org)
natural resources
- Ovi Magazine : Stop the exploitation of natural resources in occupied Western Sahara by Dr. Luis Portillo, Ph. (ovimagazine.com)
- In the third round of negotiations, held in January, both parties decided to include on the agenda of the next round the discussion of a key issue in the decolonisation process: the management of the natural resources of Western Sahara. (ovimagazine.com)
protests
- that poll was seen as the monarchy's response to the "Arab Spring" protests which had by then spilled over into Morocco. (investorintel.com)
coast
- Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. (wikipedia.org)
- An American national, Riley's ship had been wrecked off the Western Sahara coast in August of that year and he and his crew enslaved. (wikipedia.org)
south
- Panhard's initial licensing contract with the South African government extended to the local assembly or manufacture of up to 1,000 AMLs. (wikipedia.org)
relatively
- Consequently, the companies involved in tropical African commerce were relatively small, apart from Cecil Rhodes's De Beers Mining Company. (wikipedia.org)
control
- This system of bureaucratic control by government is called the License Raj and lies at the core of endemic corruption. (wikipedia.org)
- There were several serious confrontations between the U.S. and Denmark on security policy in the so-called "footnote era" (1982-88), when an alternative parliamentary majority forced the government to adopt specific national positions on nuclear and arms control issues. (wikipedia.org)
Europe
- All the stats, data, and trends you need to understand the state of the internet, social media, and mobile in Western Europe in 2018. (slideshare.net)
network
- The areas in these editors may be freed especially in North precise network-tuning but may Thereby promote in company and powder connections. (literary-liaisons.com)
Reform
- They also rejected a no-fly zone and any intervention by Western powers, but supported an "African solution" of reform. (wikipedia.org)
members
- To secure a redemption he employed as payment The Ironmongers' Fund, administered by The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers in London and set up by one of its members, Thomas Betton, in 1723, who himself had been enslaved in Barbary. (wikipedia.org)
- Anna Hazare wanted a joint committee to be formed, comprising members of the government and of civil society, to draft tougher anti-corruption legislation. (wikipedia.org)
parliament
- In 2011 the EU parliament terminated the last Fisheries Partnership Agreements with Morocco for the waters of Western Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
- Resolution passed in Parliament accepting Jan Lokpal Bill on 27 August 2011, Government again withdrawn Resolution on 22 December 2011, Government Cabinet introduced The Lokpal Bill, 2011 in the parliament but failed to pass. (wikipedia.org)
trade
- In his report to the meeting, Hassan Sunmonu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU), will raise the Kokori and Dabibi cases and other violations of trade union rights by the military-led Nigerian government. (africafocus.org)
support
- These economic migrants fall outside the mandates of the support structures offered by governments and non-governmental organisations for refugees. (wikipedia.org)
Spanish
- The war ended in a nationalist dictatorship, led by Francisco Franco, which controlled the Spanish government until 1975. (wikipedia.org)
country
- Morocco is an African country currently a member of the African Union. (wikipedia.org)
Indian
- The chief legislative aim of the movement was to alleviate corruption in the Indian government through introduction of the Jan Lokpal Bill . (wikipedia.org)
national
- The Book Printing Company is the epub Social Security Administration Electronic when Using academic national & at an mediaeval list. (vortechonline.com)
Official
- Another branch, Tamazight, has become an official language of Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
economic
- Over-regulation, protectionism, and government ownership of industry led to slow economic growth, high unemployment, and widespread poverty. (wikipedia.org)
early
- Morocco's ruling Islamists are in need of a new ally after their main coalition partners made good on their threat to quit the government, raising the possibility of early elections. (investorintel.com)
- Having gained employment with the London-based, English trading house James Renshaw and Co, he was despatched to Mogadore (Essaouira), Morocco as the company's agent in early 1814, partnering a successful mercantile establishment that was engaged in trading between Mogadore and Great Britain with the resident British Vice Consul and merchant Joseph Dupuis. (wikipedia.org)
- In the late 20th and early 21st centuries voting ages were lowered to 18 in India, Switzerland, Austria and Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
legal
- Letter dated 29 January 2002 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, addressed to the President of the Security Council Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western SaharaBBC News 14.12.2011. (wikipedia.org)
left
- A major coalition partner has left the government in protest at proposed subsidy cuts that came into effect during the week. (investorintel.com)
leaders
- In particular, they want the company to push for the release of two detained Nigerian oilworkers' leaders. (africafocus.org)
issues
- If n't one of the issues is the styles or companies in surrounding and trying their languages, we will Apply that the triple-play of the Publisher proposed held. (nukefix.org)
bill
- The policy was set in motion by a Government announcement on 14 March, and a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution was presented to the legislature on 2 May. (wikipedia.org)
Another
- There is also another problem: there are growing noises from Algiers suggesting renewed antagonism over Western Sahara. (investorintel.com)
comment
- Here's a comment from Roger Bade at London's Whitman Howard brokerage: "This will have to be watched as Morocco is the world's largest exporter of phosphates and is the last North African producer not to suffer from riot production disruptions. (investorintel.com)
Zimbabwe
- prominent foreign operators included Morocco and Zimbabwe. (wikipedia.org)
Nigeria
- The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged communication giant, the MTN Nigeria to comply with the directive of the Federal Government to pay the over $10 billion as tax arrears and illegal repatriation. (allafrica.com)
Invest
- The organisation 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)
Trade
- K1175/D52/G, to the decision by the Arab governments to set up the Arab British Chamber of Commerce which was mandated to "promote, encourage and facilitate bilateral trade" between the Arab world and its major trading partner, the United Kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
solution
- They also rejected a no-fly zone and any intervention by Western powers, but supported an "African solution" of reform. (wikipedia.org)
major
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especially
- Government should use this opportunity to send an appropriate message to everyone, especially corporate organisations who often pay taxes in the breach. (allafrica.com)
- He urged critical government agencies to closely look into the operations of the company, especially in light of the Thabo Mbeki Report. (allafrica.com)
African
- Panhard's initial licensing contract with the South African government extended to the local assembly or manufacture of up to 1,000 AMLs. (wikipedia.org)
- African Union - The Chairman of the African Union Commission Jean Ping said the AU was in contact with the Libyan government and that it condemned the crackdown against protesters. (wikipedia.org)
protect
- To save and protect lives, governments worldwide must act together and responsibly. (oxfam.org)
world
- The choices of government leaders around the world are fueling the inequality crisis to frightening levels. (oxfam.org)
- In its size and span, in organisation and development, it was, and increasingly recognised to have been, one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern world. (wikipedia.org)