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Africa16
  • Silver and lead production in Morocco are the highest in Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ninety percent of the phosphate rock reserves are located in just five countries: Morocco, China, South Africa, Jordan and the United States. (phys.org)
  • We VALIDATE and help TRUSTABLE companies across Africa to tell their stories while showcasing their products and services. (africa2trust.com)
  • For ALL business news across Africa. (africa2trust.com)
  • Are you a legally operating business, institution or organisation in Africa? (africa2trust.com)
  • The state of Western Sahara or Sahrawi Republic lies along the coast of West Africa between Mauritania to its south and east, and Morocco on its northern border, and forms part of the West African region. (mbendi.co.za)
  • In a bitter response, Morocco lifted border controls into Ceuta, one of Spain's small enclaves in North Africa, allowing some 10,000 migrants to cross the border and effectively creating a humanitarian crisis. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • AfrOil has always been at the forefront of news and analysis on political change in Africa. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • AfrOil highlights company activity throughout Africa, from planning and investment to production and results. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • Analyst Shannon Ebrahim said to Ahval News that " South Africa must stop shipments of arms that are later sold to countries at wa r", referring to shipments of ammunition to Turkey, which has maintained a presence in Syria and Libya, despite the UN's call to reduce hostilities in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (atalayar.com)
  • On the other hand, Russian media resources are largely far from eminent in Africa, and these include the media conglomerate popularly referred to as Rossiya Sevogdnya (RIA Novosti, Voice of Russia and Russia Today), TASS News Agency and Interfax Information Service. (africanexecutive.com)
  • These are powerful and reputable Russian brands, compared to most well-known Western and European media organizations operate in and cooperate with Africa. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Interestingly, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department has accredited media from Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asian countries, and only two African media came from the Maghreb region (Morocco and Egypt) in North Africa. (africanexecutive.com)
  • We invite all interested parties to open news bureaus and expand media cooperation with Russia," Kozhin said at the gathering, inviting Africa media to Moscow. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Nearly all the panelists noted precisely that western media dominates in Africa. (africanexecutive.com)
  • Often times, unique news offerings created by the Russian media simply do not make to the users and viewers in many regions, including Africa. (africanexecutive.com)
Moroccan4
  • Six years on, he finds himself under constant surveillance, and Western Sahara still under Moroccan occupation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Former United States President Donald Trump in 2020, recognized Moroccan control over the Western Sahara in an attempt to strengthen relations between the Kingdom and the State of Israel. (popularresistance.org)
  • A survey by the Moroccan news website Le Desk and the international media freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has identified the Moroccan media sector's leading players and their interests outside the media. (rsf.org)
  • In a letter made public on March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez endorsed a Moroccan plan of autonomy for Western Sahara, a clear break with Madrid's long-established policy that the disputed territory's status should be decided by a referendum. (foreignpolicy.com)
Referendum4
  • The UN has been unable to ensure that Morocco holds a national referendum within the Western Sahara over the future of the territory. (popularresistance.org)
  • The final future of the state of Western Sahara will be settled when the forthcoming UN-supervised referendum is held in which the country's inhabitants must choose between independence or integration with Morocco. (mbendi.co.za)
  • 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)
  • 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)
19754
  • In spite of the special status of Western Sahara \"a non-self governing territory still to be decolonized and occupied by Morocco since 1975 \" the Dutch company FUGRO N.V. agreed to carry out seismic surveys on behalf of the US company Kerr-McGee, which won a license from Morocco in 2001. (wsrw.org)
  • The territory was ceded to Morocco and Mauritania after the exit of Spain as a colonial power in 1975. (popularresistance.org)
  • The North African neighbours have been locked in a bitter rivalry for decades over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which was a Spanish colony until 1975. (mailerlite.com)
  • Sahara since 1975. (lu.se)
Morocco's6
  • However, many of Morocco's mines are located in Western Sahara, which Morocco has occupied against international law. (phys.org)
  • The letter endorses Rabat's position on Western Sahara, describing Morocco's 2007 proposal for Sahrawi autonomy - which would integrate the territory into Morocco - as 'the most serious, realistic, and credible' basis for resolving the conflict. (popularresistance.org)
  • Spain is now the strongest European supporter of Morocco's autonomy plan - even in comparison to France, a close ally of Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
  • The findings of this survey, entitled Media Ownership Monitor Morocco (MOM), and the first database about Morocco's media are now available to the public at www.maroc.mom-rsf.org - a trilingual website (French, Arabic and English) that was unveiled in Casablanca today. (rsf.org)
  • Casablanca, 17 November 2017 - According to the MOM's findings, nine of the 36 media companies involved in Morocco's most influential media are directly linked to the state, the government or the royal family. (rsf.org)
  • The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO), an organization that seeks the territory's independence, disputes Morocco's claim to sovereignty over the territory. (state.gov)
Conflict4
  • It…became apparent that Mousavi was in fact an Iranian intelligence agent , whose remit was to interfere in the dispute between Algeria and Morocco over the Western Sahara conflict," said Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat columnist Tony Duheaume. (therealnews.com)
  • A Japanese-Canadian vessel that transported conflict phosphate from occupied Western Sahara was yesterday received by a floating protest in New Zealand. (wsrw.org)
  • The bay of Mogán at Gran Canary Island will next week be covered in conflict sand from occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Western Sahara is clearly a country in conflict, in which Fugro N.V. is now involved without authorisation from the legitimate administration. (wsrw.org)
African Unity2
  • The Western Sahara is the only country which has not been declared independent within the AU, whose predecessor, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) after contentious debate, has advocated for the total liberation of the Western Sahara for nearly four decades. (popularresistance.org)
  • In November 1984, the Polisario Front's SADR was recognised by the Organisation for African Unity leading to the withdrawal of Morocco from the OAU in protest. (mbendi.co.za)
EU's2
  • The former Legal Counsel to the UN Security Counsel, Mr. Hans Corell, comments on the EU's fisheries activities in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Executive Board of The Liberal Party of Norway demands that Western Sahara be excluded from EU's cooperation with Morocco. (vest-sahara.no)
Kingdom of Moro3
  • Spain has announced that it has endorsed a proposal by the Kingdom of Morocco to designate the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an "autonomous" region within the North African state. (popularresistance.org)
  • Mauritania relinquished its falsely designated authority over the Western Sahara, while the Kingdom of Morocco, one of the few remaining monarchies on the continent, has refused to allow the people of the territory to even conduct an internationally supervised and monitored election on the status of their own country. (popularresistance.org)
  • The Kingdom of Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara and administers the territory that it controls. (state.gov)
Liberation movement2
  • Morocco last month broke off diplomatic relations with Iran, alleging that Tehran had provided financial and logistical support as well as surface-to-air missiles to the Algerian-backed West Saharan liberation movement , Frente Polisario, using Hezbollah as an intermediary. (therealnews.com)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
Polisario5
  • They are accused by campaigners of being complicit to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, they are requested to hand over collected data to the Polisario Front, and the shareholders of the companies are being urged to divest. (wsrw.org)
  • We demand a guarantee from Fugro N.V. that no future exploration activities will be carried out in Western Sahara without the consent of the Saharawi people, and that the data collected will be handed over to their representatives \" the Polisario Front. (wsrw.org)
  • In May 1991, the Polisario Front and Morocco ended many years of fighting following a UN sponsored peace settlement. (mbendi.co.za)
  • Relations between Madrid and Rabat have been frosty since May 2021, when Spain admitted the leader of the Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, for hospital treatment after he suffered complications related to COVID-19. (foreignpolicy.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)
Phosphate5
  • Morocco is the world's largest producer of phosphate, and contains about 75% of the world's estimated reserves. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco holds 75% of the phosphate reserves of the world, and is ranked third in the world in its production. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • The U.S., which has 25 years of phosphate rock reserves left, imports a substantial amount of phosphate rock from Morocco, which controls up to 85 percent of the remaining phosphate rock reserves. (phys.org)
WSRW2
  • 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)
Saharan1
  • The Namibian-South African company, Etosha Fishing Corp (Pty) Ltd, has been active in the occupied Western Saharan waters for nearly a year. (vest-sahara.no)
Sahrawi1
International Organizations1
  • Yet, there are no international organizations or regulations that manage global phosphorus resources. (phys.org)
Fugro5
  • In 2010, the Dutch company Fugro promised to never again undertake operations in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The British subsidiary of Fugro, Svitzer, has been carrying out the survey, while the Wales-based Robertson Research International has, according to their website, been carrying out a study in the occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The international coalition for the protection of natural resources of Western Sahara has today sent letters to the president and CEO of Fugro, Mr G-J. Kramer, and to its subsidiaries involved in the actual survey work, condemning their activity in the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • The Advisory Boards of the above mentioned companies received a copy of the letter sent to the President of Fugro, and were informed that the companies are seen as being complicit in the illegal occupation of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The only response that the campaign group has received from Fugro so far (apart from an announcement that the survey from one of its subsidiaries is recently completed) is the assertion that no UN embargo is in place in Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
19762
  • Formerly the Spanish colony of Rio de Oro, Western Sahara was annexed by both Morocco and Mauritania when Spain withdrew in February 1976. (mbendi.co.za)
  • Spain's stance on the matter is especially important, as the country was Western Sahara's colonial ruler until 1976 . (foreignpolicy.com)
Withdrew2
  • Nonetheless, in response to the seating of the SADR by the OAU/AU, Morocco withdrew its membership from the continental organization. (popularresistance.org)
  • After Mauritania withdrew from the territory in August 1979, it was incorporated into and administered by Morocco. (mbendi.co.za)
Algeria3
  • Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan and Algeria have in recent weeks accused Iran of subversive activity and propagating Shiism while Morocco last month announced that it was breaking off diplomatic relations with the Islamic republic. (therealnews.com)
  • Algeria supports the embattled 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran as well as Iran's presence in Syria and has refused to declare Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, a terrorist organization. (therealnews.com)
  • In the most recent incident, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, a pan-Arab, Saudi-owned newspaper , quoted, former Algerian Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments official Idah Falahi as demanding the withdrawal of Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi because of his "extensive contacts with civil society groups, through Facebook and social media" and alleged attempts to meddle in the dispute between Morocco and Algeria over the Western Sahara. (therealnews.com)
Self-Determination2
  • The companies have been advised that any current and future involvement in the exploration of hydrocarbons in Western Sahara is illegitimate, politically improper and ethically irresponsible\", says Liesbeth den Haan from the Netherlands Foundation for the right to Self-Determination for the Saharawi people. (wsrw.org)
  • Amnesty International fears that Mustafa Abdel Dayem's conviction may have been intended to punish him for his public support for the right to self-determination for the people of Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
Seismic3
  • The UK company GeoEx is now trying to sell the seismic data it collected of the seafloor of occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Last year, a Norwegian seismic survey company, TGS-Nopec, carried out precisely the same kind of activities in the very same area. (wsrw.org)
  • You will be well aware that other seismic companies have withdrawn bids for this work once the gravity of the political situation became apparent. (wsrw.org)
Occupied territory1
  • For example, Russia occupies territories the United States and European Union recognize as parts of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, yet Crimea is the only Russian-occupied territory subject to Western sanctions. (silkroadstudies.org)
Operate3
  • Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the West Bank. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • The UN Human Rights Office on Feb. 12 published a database of 112 companies that operate in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Over the years, nearly 30 years after the Soviet era, Russia has not encouraged African media, especially those from south of Sahara, to operate in the Russian Federation. (africanexecutive.com)
Independence2
  • Formerly known as the "Spanish Sahara", the people of the territory have been demanding national independence for decades. (popularresistance.org)
  • The most progressive states within the AU have supported the SADR in their struggle to win independence from Morocco. (popularresistance.org)
Clarifies1
  • UK Minister of Defence clarifies error in recent news report regarding UK troops training in occupied Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
Resource Watch2
  • This press release is one of the first initiatives of the network that took the form of Western Sahara Resource Watch, 30 June 2004. (wsrw.org)
  • July 21st, Western Sahara Resource Watch and the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara sent Etosha a letter asking them to reconsider their engagement in the area. (vest-sahara.no)
Country2
  • Once the necessary training is completed, the Syrian fighters will be sent to fight in the North African country, according to the London-based organization and a network of informants on Syrian soil. (atalayar.com)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
Dutch3
  • The company behind the exploration blames its Dutch client. (wsrw.org)
  • Dutch and British companies involved in the geological exploration of the seabed of Western Sahara have become the target of an international campaign led by the Norwegian, Dutch and UK branches of an international coalition for the protection of the natural resources of Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The Dutch organization is one of ten organizations currently participating in the international coalition. (wsrw.org)
Norwegian3
  • The company\'s two biggest shareholders, The Storebrand Group and The Norwegian government, put pressure on TGS-Nopec to change its policy. (wsrw.org)
  • The fertilizer company Yara remains under investigation by Norwegian police after having purchased a shipload of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara. (vest-sahara.no)
  • Press release from the Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara, 6 November 2008. (vest-sahara.no)
Shareholders1
  • A group of nine US public pension funds has filed a shareholder resolution asking the board at energy-drilling company Nabors Industries to grant long-term shareholders the right to nominate directors. (responsible-investor.com)
Nonprofit1
  • A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. (grist.org)
People2
  • The vast majority of the listed companies provide basic goods and services to the people living in these disputed territories. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • is a free source of independent news for tens of millions of people around the world, but less than 1% of our global audience donates to support our critical journalism. (democracynow.org)
Egypt1
  • Some 300 media bureaus from 60 countries are currently operating in Russia, including 800 foreign correspondents while there are only two African news bureaus from Egypt and Morocco, according to Artem Kozhin, who represented the Russian Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department, at the panel discussion on media. (africanexecutive.com)
Threat1
  • This attack is yet another reminder how ransomware is out of control and currently by far the largest threat facing organizations. (sans.org)
Support2
  • Our support groups in Holland, Wales and England have now requested urgent meetings with the mother company and the two subsidiariesí, she states. (wsrw.org)
  • Non-commercial news needs your support. (democracynow.org)
Imports1
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
Years4
  • In most years, a presidential impeachment trial would top the year-end list of biggest news stories. (cfr.org)
  • The radio sector is dominated by the state but its ownership is otherwise more diverse, consisting of several smaller companies that have emerged in the past ten years. (rsf.org)
  • However, the company has been authorised to sell arms to Turkey for the past two years," Ebrahim told the daily Ahval News. (atalayar.com)
  • The World Health Organization has warned that the path out of the coronavirus pandemic may last years and that the disease may never go away. (dw.com)
Governance4
  • Home News & Analysis Governance RI Governance & Engagement, Dec. 15: US pension funds take on drilling. (responsible-investor.com)
  • The Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad, the Spanish business association, has formed a Corporate Governance Commission in collaboration with law firm Garrigues. (responsible-investor.com)
  • The Securities Commission of Malaysia is developing a standardised corporate governance ranking for listed companies, according to national news agency Bernama . (responsible-investor.com)
  • In addition, Zakharova said "the allocation of grants fits into the White House's efforts to promote the idea that there is no alternative to Western concepts regarding state governance and the imposition of alien values on sovereign states, and this represents another manifestation of neo-colonialism and an element of covertly formalizing inequality in the overall system of international ties. (africanexecutive.com)
Cooperation2
  • On December 5th 2008, a petition letter signed by 426 organisations was sent to the EU commission demanding that occupied Western Sahara be kept outside of the Morocco-EU socalled Advanced Status cooperation. (vest-sahara.no)
  • No less than 426 organisations signed a petition letter, demanding from the EU Commission that occupied Western Sahara be kept clearly outside of the so- called Advanced Status cooperation that Morocco currently is being granted. (vest-sahara.no)
Events2
  • Email updates on news, actions, and events in your area. (eff.org)
  • Our latest news, podcasts and events, including the European Inventor Award. (epo.org)
Armenia1
  • Yet products from Nagorno-Karabakh - which the United States and European Union recognize as part of Azerbaijan - freely enter Western markets labeled as products of Armenia. (silkroadstudies.org)
Business News2
National3
  • The mining industry of Morocco is important to the national economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Specific organizations established to promote the mining sector are the Phosphates Cherifian Office (OCP) in 1920 and the National Hydrocarbon and Mines Agency (ONHYM) in 2003. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
Independent1
  • The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an independent organization that conducts research on global security. (msu.edu)
Search1
  • In the city of Tapachula on the Guatemala-Mexico border, young men in search of jobs wait along the tracks for a slow-moving freight train passing through the city en route to the north. (grist.org)
Donate1
Free1
  • Membership of the SANS.org Community grants you access to cutting edge cyber security news, training, and free tools that can't be found elsewhere. (sans.org)
Authority1
  • The security apparatus includes several police and paramilitary organizations with overlapping authority. (state.gov)