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Emirati wind farm planned in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 9, 2025
A company from the UAE is set to develop a new controversial wind farm in occupied Western Sahara later this year. Photo: Electrical post in the outskirts of El Aaiún, occupied Western Sahara, 2024. In June, Moroccan media reported that YNNA, a...
Olvea admits activities in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 8, 2025
The French fish oil giant concedes presence in the occupied territory. Photo: The last chemical tanker with fish oil directly from Western Sahara arrived Olvea's factory in Fécamp, Normandy, in January 2017. @JCB. “Concerning Western Sahara, our...
Morocco and the plundering of Western Sahara, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf
Premium Times
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July 9, 2025
I have just completed reading the 2025 Saharawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental (SONREP) Report, titled “Sustainable for Whom? Western Sahara Renewable Energy and Environmental Justice under Occupational.” Its forty three pages...
Polisario faces US congressional scrutiny over terror links, sanctions proposed
Hespress
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July 10, 2025
Washington lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill calling for the imposition of sanctions on the Algeria-backed Polisario Front under the Global Magnitsky Act and its designation as a foreign terrorist organization under U.S. immigration law....
Adala UK Condemns Morocco's Expulsion of Spanish Observers from Occupied Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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London (UK) 9 July 2025 (SPS)– Adala UK, a human rights organization based in the United Kingdom, today strongly condemned the latest expulsion of international observers from Western Sahara by Moroccan occupation authorities. On Tuesday, Moroccan...
SONREP hails Australia’s ending of controversial and illegal imports of Western Sahara’s Phosphate
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid Elhafed (Sahrawi Republic) 09 July 2025 (SPS)– The Sahrawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (SONREP) hailed the official end of all imports of phosphate rock from the occupied territories of Western Sahara to...
Explore the water sports, sands and seafood of Western Sahara
Park Rapids Enterprise - Minnesota
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July 8, 2025
Editor’s note: Retired judge John P. Smith, who lives in Nevis, will share his traveling adventures with the Enterprise, as he concludes the last leg of his quest. “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years...
Spain’s Popular Party Challenges Government’s Western Sahara Policy and Takes Tougher Line on Morocco
Watan
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July 8, 2025
Watan-Spain’s Popular Party (PP), the main conservative opposition force, has taken a sharply distinct position from the ruling government on key diplomatic issues involving Morocco, Algeria, and the Western Sahara. During its general congress...
Call to increase pressure on Moroccan regime to respect international humanitarian law in Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Algiers, 8 July 2025 (SPS) – The League for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Jails has called for increased pressure on the Makhzen regime to respect international humanitarian law, stressing the need to expose the policy of...
Morocco causes chaos by stealing Sahrawi flag
Sahara Press Service
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Malabo, 10 July 2025 (SPS) – The conference hall hosting the 47th session of the African Union Executive Council in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, on Thursday and Friday witnessed an unprecedented incident. Elements believed to be...
Bolton’s Bluster Attempts to Trivialize US Foreign Policy with Baseless Western Sahara Claims
Morocco World News
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July 7, 2025
Rabat – Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton — a vocal advocate for Polisario and its terrorist agenda targeting Morocco’s sovereignty and security – continues to disseminate what critics describe as empty rhetoric, baseless and...
Sahrawi diplomat responds to Moroccan allegations against the Polisario Front in the British Telegraph
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid Elhafed (Sahrawi Republic) 08 July 2025 (SPS)- Adala-UK and The Panafrikanist websites published an article Today signed by Sahrawi diplomat Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, in which he responds to an opinion piece by a certain Robert Clark,...
Sahrawi Observatory condemns involvement of Israeli company in looting Western Sahara’s natural resources
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid Elhafed (Sahrawi Republic) 5 July 2025 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Enviromental Protection (SONREP) issued a Press Release today strongly condemning the involvement of the Israeli company NewMed Energy in...
Morocco seeks to utilize investment in Western Sahara to bypass Sahrawis' right to self-determination
Sahara Press Service
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Geneva, 6 July 2025 (SPS) – Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, the representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, the United Nations, and international organizations in Geneva, confirmed that Morocco has resorted to using economic investments in the...
Three injured in landmine explosion in occupied territories of Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Shaheed El Hafed (Refugee Camps), 6 July 2025 (SPS) - Sahrawi organizations reported that a landmine exploded last Thursday in the Safia area, located in the occupied part of Western Sahara, about 80 kilometers from the Guerguerat area, resulting...
Liberia, Ecuador Reaffirm Support for Morocco’s Sovereignty Over Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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July 4, 2025
Rabat – Liberia and Ecuador have both reaffirmed their strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara during official visits to Rabat on Friday. Liberia’s Foreign Minister, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, said her...
Malainin Lakhal: Western Sahara will remain an open front for resistance until victory
Sahara Press Service
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Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 04 July 2025 (SPS) – The Deputy Representative of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Ethiopia and the African Union، Malainin Lakhal، affirmed that the Sahrawi ongoing resistance against the Moroccan occupation...
Occupying State has failed to legitimize its occupation of Western Sahara by force and will not succeed through buying consciences
Sahara Press Service
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New York (United Nations), July 3, 2025 (SPS) – Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, a member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, the Polisario Front’s representative at the UN and coordinator with MINURSO, affirmed that the Moroccan occupation...
Guatemala Backs Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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July 3, 2025
Rabat — Guatemala threw its full support behind Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara on Thursday, calling it the only realistic path to resolving the decades-old territorial dispute. Foreign Minister Carlos Ramiro Martinez Alvarado told...
Rights groups sound alarm over alleged exploitation of Sahrawi children in Polisario’s 'holidays for peace' program
Hespress
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July 8, 2025
The controversial “Holidays for Peace” program, overseen by the Polisario Front and supported by sympathetic European organizations, is under fire from Moroccan and Sahrawi rights activists who accuse the initiative of using Sahrawi children for...