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  • Turai, Maitama Sule Back Western Sahara Independence
    11 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Damilola Oyedele in Abuja
    First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua has joined the call for the independence of Western Sahara from occupation by Morocco, stressing that colonialism ought to have been totally abolished from the African continent.
    Speaking through her representative, Hajiya Zainab Ali Kotoko at the launch of the Nigeria Movement in Solidarity with the Western Sahara People by the Nigeria Labour Congress, Yar’Adua reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to the (…)

  • Is Morocco a trustworthy neighbour?
    5 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Morocco had been making decisions based on Bush propaganda catchphrases about the terrorism threaten. Thanks to that, it was presented as “a trustworthy ally” in the global war against terrorism in the US, England, France, Spain, etc. It tried to exploit this point to urge the international community to think that Polisario is a terrorist organization. Now, Morocco tries to show Algeria as Iran of the Maghreb. Its lobbies claim that Algeria search to have the atomic weapon.
    The western (…)

  • Morocco: Government Uses Torture to Silence Sahrawi Activists
    19 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    From very young I received at my home, when I was living in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, many young Saharawi medical students and hear from his own lips the oppressive regime and violator of human rights are subjected to by the regime of Morocco for the simple fact assert to have expression of their national identity, talking or singing, I saw the sadness in his faces of the oppressed people and at the same time, the twinkle in her eyes of heroic hearts fearlessly fighting for the sovereignty and (…)

  • Morocco:In solidarity with the 850 OCP workers suspended from work,
    11 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Moroccan Association for Human Rights
    CENTRAL OFFICE. Communiqué
    In solidarity with the 850 SMESI workers suspended from work, the MAHR is organizing a caravan of solidarity towards Khouribga The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (MAHR) followed with concern at both local and central levels the file developments of the 850 SMESI society employees who worked permanently since 2001 in this society belonging to the OCP Group. In consequence of the suspension of all workers and (…)

  • Fundamentally Freund: All settlers are not created equal
    6 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MICHAEL FREUND
    It is a disputed tract of land the size of Britain, it has been under occupation for nearly four decades, and hundreds of thousands of its Arab residents have been turned into refugees as a result of an aggressive and expansionist settlement policy.
    Periodic peace talks between the protagonists have failed, UN resolutions on the subject remain unimplemented and the basic human rights of those living under occupation are continually and summarily ignored. Yet despite the (…)

  • Morocco: AMDH Notification, Following Aïcha Mokhtari’s death!
    29 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMDH Notification, Following Aïcha Mokhtari’s death, the Moroccan Association for Human Rights appeals for the denunciation of the unjust system conditions of issuing visas to Moroccans.
    Notification Following Aïcha Mokhtari’s death, the Moroccan Association for Human Rights appeals for the denunciation of the unjust system conditions of issuing visas to Moroccans On Saturday, August 15, 2009 in Oujda, the Moroccan citizen Aïcha Mokhtari has died after suffering terribly from bone (…)

  • We are currently seeking volunteers for reconnaissance survey work in October 2009.
    21 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The role of volunteers in the Western Sahara Project Volunteers play a vital role in the work of the Western Sahara Project, and make a major contribution to the funding of the Project. Volunteering for a Western Sahara Project field season is a way of experiencing a unique desert environment and culture in a part of the world which is largely closed to outsiders. Volunteering is also an opportunity to learn about the fascinating and little-known archaeology of this remote region and of the (…)

  • A comment by Kal
    20 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Well, to take Israel, you have the fact that the Druze and “Bedouin” communities outrightly joined the Israeli side after 1948. You can, as Saharawi Citizen says, traitors in any movement. Benedict Arnold? The Algerian independence movement had more than one defector and collaborator.
    Arab Israelis are said (by Israelis) to have equal rights to Jewish Israelis; though there are Israelis who challenge that. It really doesn’t matter much if the Sahara is wealthy or poor. The legal status is (…)

  • How UN can provoke terrorism !!
    16 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN Secretary-General Envoy, Christopher Ross, is working on his own plan to resolve the thirty-four-year-old Western Sahara conflict. The details of the plan have not yet been released. He has made no secret of his desire to shake things up in the Sahara to unsettle the diplomatic war of attrition being waged by Morocco and the Front Polisario.
    The major question facing Ross is the Western Saharans’ right of self-determination, which vexed the previous mediators, James Baker, the former US (…)

  • Talk peace, make war
    15 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is inconceivable that the Polisario would agree to any arrangement that didn’t give the Western Saharans control of their natural resource assets, most notably the phosphates and fish. These alone would give the small population of the area a good per capita income, probably well above Morocco’s. And if oil is discovered does anyone really think that Morocco would allow the Western Sahara to control the petrodollars? Inconceivable.
    The Moroccan military is heavily entrenched in the (…)