• 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)
  • Information from the Moroccan government shows that plans are materialising for a new gigantic solar farm in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • We express our strongest condemnation of the new aggression perpetrated by the Moroccan army against the Saharawi population, as well as our total rejection of the unacceptable behaviour of the Spanish Government in the face of the worrying events in Western Sahara. (pressenza.com)
  • We denounce the crimes against humanity committed by Morocco in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara and the ongoing harassment and brutality with which the Moroccan apparatus of repression treats the Saharawi civilian population, activists and journalists. (pressenza.com)
  • "We fully support Morocco and its Saharan autonomy initiative, which we see as the only solution to this dispute," This was announced by Ava Atzum Arevalo to the media after a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • Guatemala already announced its decision to open a consulate in Dakhla on September 22, in the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Morocco and agrees to the Moroccan proposal for Western Sahara. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • The North African country advocates a broad autonomy initiative for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty as the most viable option to resolve the nearly five-decade-long Sahara conflict. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • The Alawite kingdom thus continues to gain support for its proposal of broad autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty as the "most serious and credible" option for resolving the Saharawi conflict, as recognized by other very important countries such as Germany and Spain. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • This proposal received a major boost in December 2020 when Donald Trump's US administration recognized Moroccan sovereignty of the Sahara in exchange for the kingdom forging strong diplomatic ties with Israel, along the lines of the Abraham Accords, signed in September Sealed under US auspices in 2020. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • The Polisario front seeks full independence for Western Sahara, and in November declared a 1991 truce as "null and void" after Moroccan forces broke up a blockade of a highway toward Mauritania that the group said had violated the ceasefire agreement. (acci-cavie.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • NewMed's gas exploration licence offshore occupied Western Sahara is "illegal", Polisario lashes out in a release. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco built its 2,700-kilometer wall in its southern provinces in the 1980s in order to defend the country against the Polisario, an Algerian-backed militant group that has been fighting for independence from Rabat. (acci-cavie.org)
  • The liberation movement POLISARIO 5 (Frente) Popular para la Liberacion de Saguia el-Hamra y del Rio de Oro. (regjeringen.no)
  • 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)
  • Guatemalan Deputy Foreign Minister Ava Atzum Arévalo traveled to Rabat, where she reaffirmed her country's position in supporting Morocco's formula of sovereignty over Western Sahara as the "only possible solution" to the Saharawi conflict. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • In October 1975, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejected claims from Morocco and Mauritania regarding their alleged sovereignty over the territory. (regjeringen.no)
  • 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)
  • As 2020 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year. (cfr.org)
  • It began in October 2017 and has escalated sharply since March 2020, drawing increased international news coverage and debate. (africafocus.org)
  • Declaring Hankook Tyre UK as TyreSafe's 2020 winner of the Tyre Manufacturer of the Year Award 2020, TyreSafe Chair and Chair of Awards Judging, Stuart Jackson said, "Hankook's commitment to raise awareness on tire safety resulted in a well targeted campaign, which highlighted specific messages relevant to their core age group. (hankooktire.com)
  • His steps so far include starving dealers of new bikes to clear out excess inventory, a move the company says has helped it charge full price for 2020 model-year bikes. (bikernet.com)
  • According to the French-language Le Desk news site, Rabat has expressed interest in the system produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems for intercepting mortar shells, rockets, and drones. (acci-cavie.org)
  • Foreign Minister Yair Lapid visited Morocco in August and inaugurated the country's mission in Rabat. (acci-cavie.org)
  • Rabat, the report said, became interested in the use of loitering munitions after Israel Aerospace Industries "highlighted" in a sales pitch the extensive use of the company's Harop suicide drones by Azerbaijan during the two-month war with Armenia last year. (acci-cavie.org)
  • 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)
  • The cape is not prominent on maps but may be located by looking 220 km (120 nautical miles) due south of the south-western point of the hook of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Images have appeared of highly controversial windmills on Canary Islands, in transit for Engie's project in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • Other units were sent to Spanish colonial possessions in the Spanish Sahara (today's Western Sahara), the Canary Islands, Sidi Ifni, and to Spain's African colonies such as Equatorial Guinea. (sofmag.com)
  • In the years between 2002 and 2008 Sata and the PF have addressed mass rallies of Zambians, appealing directly to their deep seated grievances. (marxist.com)
  • 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)
  • Donald Trump began the year as the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, joining Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. (cfr.org)
  • 23:50 US President Donald Trump is set to hire a former pharmaceutical executive to lead his administration's effort to develop, test, and produce a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year. (dw.com)
  • During the seven-year conflict, Legion units had consistently been at the forefront of the fighting. (sofmag.com)
  • Nearly all petroleum that arrived in occupied Western Sahara in 2022 originated from refineries in Spain. (wsrw.org)
  • 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)
  • The Chinese company Envision Energy is going to supply Engie with the windmill components for its controversial windfarm near Dakhla in occupied Western Sahara. (wsrw.org)
  • The armed struggle for independence lasted 10 years, from 1964 to the 1974 agreement for transition to independence in 1975. (africafocus.org)
  • Its aim was to achieve independence for Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • 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)
  • In November 2005, Morocco began censoring all political Web sites advocating Western Sahara's independence. (dw.com)
  • This Bulletin (available at http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/moz2105a.php ) and its companion Bulletin on Mozambique/Global: Fossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption ( http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/moz2105b.php ) are the first such double-posting this year. (africafocus.org)
  • First, it's personal for me, since Mozambique has been the African country to which I have had the most personal ties for more than 50 years, since first arriving in Dar es Salaam to teach at the FRELIMO secondary school in 1966. (africafocus.org)
  • My time actually living and working with Mozambicans, first in Tanzania and then in Mozambique and working with Mozambicans only amounts to five years in the 1960s and 1970s. (africafocus.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)
  • 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)
  • Algeria is a multiparty republic whose president, the head of state, is elected by popular vote for a five-year term. (state.gov)
  • Tensions have recently risen with Algeria, which broke off diplomatic ties in August citing "hostile actions" by Morocco, which denied the charges. (acci-cavie.org)
  • In the same vein, we request the mediation of the Spanish government so that the Saharawi prisoners, many of whom are unjustly sentenced to sentences of between 10 and 30 years, and even life imprisonment, are released as soon as possible. (pressenza.com)
  • We also urge Spanish companies to stop their plundering activity in Western Sahara, not only because it contravenes international law, but also because the only legitimate owner of these resources and their legal representative is the Saharawi population, whose fundamental rights are being trampled upon. (pressenza.com)
  • And the present insurgency in the northeastern province of Cabo Delgado is driven both by internal discontent and by a mix of external factors. (africafocus.org)
  • The Internet has become a sounding-board for the rumblings of discontent in most Chinese provinces. (dw.com)
  • King reports that any coastal map of Western Sahara is inaccurate because of the ever-changing physical features, due to the harsh conditions of the Sahara. (wikipedia.org)
  • As for the forgotten half of Libya - the Fezzan - or that vast interior region located south of the two coastal provinces, Ottoman interest was only given to it in the mid-nineteenth century. (acdemocracy.org)
  • Four years ago stories appeared asking whether 2016 was the worst year ever . (cfr.org)
  • Presidential term limits, which were eliminated in 2008, were reintroduced in the 2016 revision of the constitution and limit the president to two five-year terms. (state.gov)
  • Her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, banned public rallies in 2016, one year after he came to power, saying they could escalate into violence. (vifindia.org)
  • There has been much talk in recent years about the decline of democracy . (cfr.org)
  • Sadly, it is likely to be a protracted repetition of such mistakes, with the added complexity of the interests of multinational natural gas companies. (africafocus.org)
  • Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah said his government is ready to hold general elections this year. (vifindia.org)
  • The national as well as official language is Arabic, with its eastern and western Libyan colloquial variety being generally used in familiar, everyday life situations and the modern standard one being employed in formal settings and for administrative purposes. (cap-lmu.de)
  • I've run Natural Habitat Adventures for THIRTY YEARS now (ouch! (nathab.com)
  • Y la nueva travesía de Natural Habitat Adventures es prueba de ello. (nathab.com)
  • Annie Van Dinther, an Arctic guide at Natural Habitat Adventures, has more than 20 years of experience under her belt. (nathab.com)
  • Just last year Lindblad Expeditions announced it was going carbon neutral, joining industry big-names Natural Habitat Adventures and Intrepid Travel. (nathab.com)
  • The Western Sahara republic yesterday announced the signing of a new onshore mineral exploration licence. (wsrw.org)
  • Morocco has placed a high emphasis on oil and gas exploration in its energy policy. (ipsnews.net)
  • 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)
  • French: Cap Boujdour) is a headland on the west coast of Western Sahara, at 26° 07' 37"N, 14° 29' 57"W (various sources give various locations: this is from the Sailing Directions for the region), as well as the name of the large nearby town with a population of 42,651. (wikipedia.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)
  • In the afternoon, Sapeon, a global AI semiconductor company that spun out from SK Telecom last year, will reveal its next-generation inference AI chip X330 for the first time. (kkmooandmonkey2.com)
  • 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)
  • The Corell Opinion recognises Morocco as the de facto administrative power of Western Sahara. (ipsnews.net)
  • There has been an insurgency directed by terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State for eight years. (africacenter.org)
  • No amount of international military assistance will, within two years, create a fighting force that can combat the insurgency. (africafocus.org)
  • We support Morocco's position on this issue and we will support Morocco forever," the Central American country's head of diplomacy said in statements to the press, echoed by media outlets including Atlas Info. (shepherdgazette.com)
  • This is a challenging year for news organizations and nonprofits across the board, so please don't close this window before making your gift. (democracynow.org)
  • Companies have developed new technologies to help people consume cannabis in a safe and responsible way. (empirerolling.com)
  • This week, more than 44 million people in 28 U.S. states and several Canadian provinces have been affected by smoke from a record number of wildfires. (democracynow.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)
  • Donate today to keep our climate news free. (grist.org)
  • Western Sahara republic expresses wish to be included in UN-led climate governance. (wsrw.org)
  • We don't have a paywall or run ads, which means we're not brought to you by the oil, gas, coal, or nuclear companies when we cover the climate catastrophe or by the weapons manufacturers when we cover war. (democracynow.org)
  • 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)
  • Following Zaki's condemnation, three liberal opposition figures immediately announced that they were withdrawing from the national dialogue, launched at the beginning of May by the government, less than one year before presidential elections. (africacenter.org)
  • The government sent in troops from neighboring provinces to quell the fast growing movement, but the inexperienced troops were met by heavy resistance on the part of the leftist insurgents, who were well supplied with small arms, dynamite, 200 machines guns and 29 artillery pieces taken from the arms factory at Trubia or from captured government arsenals. (sofmag.com)
  • These companies] are working with an occupying government. (ipsnews.net)
  • The French company Alcatel has been observed working on the telecom cables into the occupied territory. (wsrw.org)
  • Adding to its key global partners -- Anthropic, Amazon Web Services and Google -- the giant also invited the member companies of the K-AI Alliance -- SK Telecom-led AI Alliance -- to cultivate a comprehensive AI ecosystem. (kkmooandmonkey2.com)
  • The Legion carried out its duties in the overseas possessions for several years, deployed in convoy protection, border security and as simply being a dissuasive military presence. (sofmag.com)
  • But Morocco, unlike Saudi Arabia, has had close economic, diplomatic and military ties with Israel for years, and the two countries recently re-established ties under the Abraham Accords along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan. (acci-cavie.org)
  • In most years, a presidential impeachment trial would top the year-end list of biggest news stories. (cfr.org)
  • Western Sahara, a former Spanish province, has been in exile, repression and occupation for 45 years, without having been given a solution in accordance with international law. (pressenza.com)
  • 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 image shows a political map with the knowledge about Africa in the year 1885, with a lot of ill-defined borders throughout the continent because the Scramble for Africa , the partitioning of Africa by the European powers has not yet really begun. (nationsonline.org)
  • According to Defense News and French publication Africa Intelligence, the two countries are currently working on the development of a project to manufacture the drones to strengthen Morocco's air power. (acci-cavie.org)
  • Later that year, Spain entered into an agreement with Morocco and Mauritania concerning the transfer of power over Western Sahara. (regjeringen.no)
  • According to a report in Haaretz, military ties between Israel and Morocco primarily involve intelligence cooperation and trade in arms. (acci-cavie.org)
  • In Asturias, a province in northern Spain on the Atlantic coast, local unions in several mining towns gathered small arms and were determined to see the strike through. (sofmag.com)
  • Located on the shores of Hudson Bay, near the tiny town of Churchill in Canada's Manitoba province, this area is a favorite polar bear hangout, particularly in late fall. (nathab.com)
  • Explore the flagship travel blog of Nat Hab and WWF for conservation news, thrilling wildlife photos and more. (nathab.com)
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  • Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a six-year-old ban on political rallies. (vifindia.org)
  • But in the past two years, the priority of just monitoring online political dissidence has given way to efforts to cope with unrest among the population. (dw.com)
  • The reason for the fearsome reputation of the cape is not immediately obvious from maps, where it appears as the south-western point of a slight hump in the coastline, bounded at its other end by Cabo Falso Bojador, ten nautical miles to the northeast. (wikipedia.org)
  • The region of Western Africa and parts of Central Africa south of the Sahara and north of the 10° latitude are named Soudan on the map. (nationsonline.org)
  • Cape Colony , established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, occupied by the British in 1795, and remained in the British Empire until the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. (nationsonline.org)
  • stay strong and independent all year round. (democracynow.org)
  • 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)
  • The system "would ensure the better defense of the sand wall in the Sahara, but also of civil and military zones of a sensitive nature," the report said. (acci-cavie.org)
  • He would know, because he's see-ing it in his back-yard: Kansas and Nebras-ka report-ed farm-land prices 20 per-cent above the pre-vi-ous year's lev-els and are on pace to dou-ble val-ues in four years. (spitfirelist.com)
  • The cement sales of Heidelberg Materials in occupied Western Sahara could have increased by 150% in two years. (wsrw.org)
  • Jochen Zeitz, a former Puma SE boss who became chief executive officer in February, has been working to shrink the company and narrow its focus amid a five-year sales slump in its core U.S. market. (bikernet.com)
  • Long-time subscribers to AfricaFocus Bulletin will know that I occasionally publish two Bulletins on one day (although not more than 4 times a year). (africafocus.org)
  • The use of medicinal plants in the Algerian Sahara goes back a long way and has become one of the main sources of healing in the region. (vegetosindia.org)