Politics | Human rights | Society
Call for release Sahrawi prisoners in Morocco
afrol News, 18 June - The Spanish Human rights organisation has called for the release of Yahya Mohamed Alhafed Iaaza, and other Sahrawi political prisoners who are still in the Moroccan prisons. Mr Iaaza is serving a 15 years imprisonment sentence in the prison of Ait Melloul in Morocco. Read more
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Economy - Development | Technology
Morocco invests in fiber optic line to Western Sahara
afrol News, 22 May - Maroc Telecom has secured a US$ 1.3 billion investment programme, mostly financed by the Moroccan government. The programme will see major improvement and modernisation of Morocco's fixed-line and mobile networks, but also a new fiber optic cable to France and through Western Sahara into Mauritania.
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Media | Culture - Arts
Sahrawis launch national television
afrol News, 21 May - Western Sahara has become the last African nation to launch its official national broadcaster, heading its operations from the Algerian refugee camps where most of the Sahrawi population lives.
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Politics | Human rights | Society
UN calls for peaceful talks on the future of W/Sahara
afrol News, 15 April - The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has called on peaceful negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front ahead of the talks on the future of the disputed Western Sahara. Four rounds of the UN-brokered talks in New York since 2007 have failed to resolve the long-standing dispute between the two rivals. Read more
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Society | Human rights | Health | Agriculture - Nutrition
UN send mission to assess Sahrawi refugees situation
afrol News, 18 March - The United Nations has launched a mission to assess the Western Sahara refugees situation in Algeria following reports of malnutrition and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis, the UN refugees agency has announced. Read more
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Politics | Human rights
Morocco repress Sahrawi population - HRW
afrol News, 22 December - Morocco has been accused of resorting to repressive laws and violence to punish Sahrawis who advocate for full self-determination for the disputed Western Sahara, HUman Rights Watch has said in a report. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Society
EU-Moroccan deal "illegal"; UN expert
afrol News, 9 December - The former UN Legal Counsel, Ambassador Hans Corell, calls the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) illegal, because it includes the waters off Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
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Economy - Development | Politics
McDonald's, Wikipedia targeted by Morocco
afrol News, 2 December - In its efforts to win the propaganda war against Western Sahara's exiled government, Moroccan authorities and groups it employs abroad are targeting international companies such as McDonald's and Wikipedia.
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Society | Science - Education | Human rights
Agadir student killings trigger protests
afrol News, 2 December - Two students of the southern Moroccan university in Agadir of Western Saharan origin have been killed, four others being injured. What government calls "an accident" has been termed "an assassination" by Saharawis, who are organising protest marches.
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Politics | Media
Moroccan-Saharawi soap opera in Denmark
afrol News, 26 November - Based on Moroccan Ministry of Defence information, four Rabat media report that the representation of Western Sahara in Copenhagen has been ordered to close down by the Danish government. "Rubbish," say Danish sources, adding the false information comes as an answer to Danish media reports over a sex scandal at the Moroccan Embassy.
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Politics | Labour | Economy - Development
SA labour protests Western Sahara inclusion in EU-Morocco deal
afrol News, 17 November - A global protest campaign, contesting occupied Western Sahara's inclusion in a Morocco-European Union (EU) free trade deal is gaining momentum. Today, South Africa's dominant labour union COSATU told the EU it was breaking international law by its planned inclusion of the territory.
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» 03.11.2008 - W/Sahara contests inclusion in EU-Morocco deal
» 17.09.2008 - Malawi cut ties with Sahrawi Republic
» 08.09.2008 - Rice urges end to Western Sahara dispute
» 31.07.2008 - Moroccan King sabre-rattling with Algeria
» 23.07.2008 - 60 injured after Moroccan-Sahrawi clashes in Dakhla
» 18.07.2008 - SA's and Namibians fish illegally in West Sahara
» 17.07.2008 - Danes warn against trade with Western Sahara
» 25.06.2008 - Sahrawis impatient with UN, warn of "explosion"
» 12.06.2008 - Western Sahara-bound fishing vessel hijacked
» 06.06.2008 - Mauritania denies shifting side in Sahara conflict
» 05.06.2008 - Global shipping shies away from Western Sahara phosphates
» 23.05.2008 - Morocco "winning Sahara propaganda war"
» 21.05.2008 - Morocco "planning military attack on Sahara"
» 15.05.2008 - Sahrawi refugee children in dire need of food
» 20.03.2008 - W. Sahara talks continues
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