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» Call for release Sahrawi prisoners in Morocco
» Western Sahara seeks UN intervention on Morocco’s elections
» Morocco invests in fiber optic line to Western Sahara
» Sahrawis launch national television
» UN calls for peaceful talks on the future of W/Sahara
» W/Sahara asks UN to establish protection mechanism
» UN send mission to assess Sahrawi refugees situation
» Allow Sahrawis self determination – UN envoy
» Morocco repress Sahrawi population - HRW
» EU-Moroccan deal "illegal"; UN expert
» McDonald's, Wikipedia targeted by Morocco
» Agadir student killings trigger protests
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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.

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Politics | Society

Western Sahara seeks UN intervention on Morocco’s elections

afrol News, 8 June - President of the Western Sahara, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has pleaded with the UN Secretary General to urge Morocco to back down on its plan of organising elections in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

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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.

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Politics | Human rights | Society

W/Sahara asks UN to establish protection mechanism

afrol News, 2 April - The Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has called upon the UN Secretary General, to device a mechanism to ensure respect for the human rights in Western Sahara, the last African colony.

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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.

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Politics | Society

Allow Sahrawis self determination – UN envoy

afrol News, 23 February - The United Nation's new envoy to the Western Sahara has maintained the Saharawi people's right to self-determination, a position that analysts fear could complicate negotiations with Morocco.

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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.

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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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Economy - Development

Major cannery divests in Western Sahara

afrol News, 21 November - The Spanish company Grupo Calvo has decided to close its canning plant in El Aaiun, the capital of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, next year, following pressure from pro-Saharawi activists.

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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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