Western Sahara: Saharawis - Poor People in a Rich Country

press release

The World Bank's report of 1974 expected Western Sahara to be one of the richest countries in the world because of its huge natural resources reserves and its small population. 40 years later, the Saharawi Natural Resource Watch (SNRW) presents the following report on the activities of the Moroccan authorities of occupation and their plunder of the Saharawi fishing resources in collaboration with a number of companies from third countries that do not recognise the Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The aim is to provide the readers with information on the scale of the serious violations of the Saharawi people's right to enjoy and profit from their resources, which can only be qualified as a blatant violation of the international law relative to Non-Self-Governing territories still pending a decolonisation process.

The reader would deduce through this report that though the territory is extremely rich in resources, its people, the Saharawis, remain amongst the most poor on earth because of this very illegal exploitation of their resources openly and publicly in a territory that is remains under the legal authority of the UN, which is in charge of its decolonisation and must pay all necessary efforts to enable its people to fully and freely exercise their right to self-determination.

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