Fahamu (Oxford)
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November 2
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Western Sahara: 'People Are Starving in 37-Year-Old Refugee Camps' [analysis]
Living conditions in the camps have worsened over the years and Saharawis believe this is part of the strategy by Morocco to push the people in the illegally occupied territory... Read more »
September 21
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Morocco: Young Saharawis Are Fed Up With the Futile Peace Process
A recent survey carried out by Polisario's youth wing found that over 85 per cent of the young Saharawis polled were in favour of ending the current ceasefire with Morocco and... Read more »
July 6
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Western Sahara: Execution of Dambar - Saharawi People Demand Justice [document]
The three human rights organisations are deeply concerned about Moroccan refusal to investigate the assassination of a young Saharawi man, Saïd Dambar, who was shot dead in... Read more »
June 15
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Morocco: Western Sahara - Realpolitik to the Rescue of Colonization? [opinion]
Is it possible to cure cancer with aspirin? Can we do justice in a murder by relentlessly "assaulting" the victim's body looking for excuses to the murderer? Read more »
April 27
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Morocco: Can War Bring Freedom for the Saharawi People? [analysis]
After bitter debate within the Security Council, and strong pressures from France to avoid any kind of progress in the resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara, the member... Read more »
April 23
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Morocco: UN Must Include Human Rights Component to Minurso [analysis]
Torture and other inhuman and degrading treatments, arbitrary arrest and detention, forced disappearance, the use of rape as a mean of intimidation, are current practices committed... Read more »
February 24
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Morocco: Western Sahara - Refugee Starvation 'Could Trigger New War' [analysis]
Saharawis are becoming increasingly impatient with the UN and many are willing to break the ceasefire between Western Sahara's liberation front, Polisario, and Morocco, which has... Read more »
February 17
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Western Sahara: Fresh Brutality From Occupying Force [analysis]
Laayoune is the largest settlement in Western Sahara territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. Read more »
February 10
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Western Sahara: In Search of Justice for the Saharawi People [document]
The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, gave a speech in the Spanish city of Seville, where the 37th European Conference of Coordination and Support to the... Read more »
January 20
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Africa: Western Sahara - Denial of Self-Determination and Human Rights Abuses [analysis]
The case of the Western Sahara is a clear proof of failure of the international system that is governed by few powerful states: the five members of the Security Council who have... Read more »
November 11, 2011
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Morocco: Western Sahara Kidnappings - Unpacking Country's Propaganda [opinion]
Two Spaniards and an Italian working at a refugee camp in western Algeria were kidnapped in October. Malainin Lakhal writes about how Morocco has used the kidnappings in their... Read more »
October 28, 2011
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Western Sahara: Sahrawi Camps Not 'Dangerous' - Visitor Rejects Morocco's Claim [analysis]
Human rights campaigner Sabrina Tucci spent a month in the Sahrawi camps in Tindouf earlier this year. Despite the recent kidnapping of three aid workers, Tucci feels she can still... Read more »
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Western Sahara: Why Does Spain Need Morocco to Free the Hostages in Western Sahara? [opinion]
Sahrawi refugee camps have been 'safe from any kind of security problems for the last three decades', writes Malainin Lakhal, arguing that Morocco could be behind the recent... Read more »
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Western Sahara: Fresh Political Storm for Western Sahara [analysis]
Following the kidnap of three humanitarian workers from Sahrawi refugee camps on the southern Algerian border, Konstantina Isidoros is sceptical about Morocco's narrative about who... Read more »
October 21, 2011
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North Africa: Morocco Continues Attacks On Western Sahara
Despite a media blackout and a ban on visits to the occupied Western Sahara, there is evidence of Moroccan authorities torturing many of the Saharawis they have detained. The... Read more »
October 7, 2011
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Western Sahara: A Young Girl's Life in a Refugee Camp [analysis]
I spent my whole childhood, or at least until I was six, thinking that living in refugee camps was all that existed for any person,' writes Senia Bachir Abderahman, in an account... Read more »
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Western Sahara: Why I'm Not Married Yet [analysis]
42-year old Hamdi would like to marry but he can't afford to, thanks to his economic situation - one that is shared by many other Sahrawis in the occupied territory. Read more »
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Africa: Story of a Sheikh - Impunity for Moroccans
A Moroccan soldier on a motorbike who struck and killed a Sahrawi pedestrian has not been prosecuted for his actions. Read more »
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Africa: No Land Without Sex [analysis]
A young woman is told she can only benefit from a land redistribution scheme if she provides sexual favours to the Moroccan official administrating it. Read more »
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Africa: A Young Man's Sadness [analysis]
Tortured for taking part in political protest, a young Sahrawi has lost his childhood ambitions for a better life. Read more »
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Africa: A Repatriate's Plight [analysis]
Returning home from Algeria, Salama finds that as a Sahrawi living in occupied territory, he has 'become a breathing person without a soul.' Read more »
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Africa: No Future Under Moroccan Rule [analysis]
Mehdi is employed and has a house and car. But he knows that he could lose it all if he openly shows allegiance to the Sahrawi cause. Read more »
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Africa: Polisario Front Intervention Before the UN Special Committee of Decolonization [analysis]
Morocco is to blame for the current stalemate in the talks to end the long dispute with Western Sahara, writes Ahmed Boukhari. Morocco has refused to discuss the nationalist... Read more »
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Africa: Palestine and Western Sahara - A comparative Analysis of Both Disputes and the Applicable Law [analysis]
For four decades the UN has clearly and repeatedly affirmed the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, writes Juan Soroeta Liceras. Morocco's continued occupation of... Read more »
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Africa: The Tea Struggle - Lessons From a Saharawi Ritual
Young Senia has spoken before delegates of the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee and met with politicians and NGOs in the UK, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Here she... Read more »
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