Western Sahara

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• North Africa: Human Rights Abuses

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Human Rights Watch  blasts the recent convictions  of Tunisian journalists Taofik Ben Brik and Zouhair Makhlouf after unfair trials. Middle East director of HRW, Sarah Leah Whitson, laments that since his sham electoral victory,   President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has been “on a vengeful campaign to punish ...
  4 days ago

• Seeking Sahara Volunteers for November 2010

  
  SAND & DUST — Authority: 114
  Prehistoric burial monument near Tifariti The Western Sahara Project is looking for volunteers to participate in a season of fieldwork in the Northern Sector of the Polisario-controlled or “Free” zone of Western Sahara in November 2010. No experience is necessary – just an adventurous nature and a relatively ...
  5 days ago

• Western Sahara & Sarkozy

  
  Deadline Pundit — Authority: 119
  Nicholas Sarkozy should not get too much praise for his success in getting Aminatou Haidar, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1117/p06s10-wome.html the hunger striking Western Saharan human rights activist back into her own country. It is Sarkozys France that has consistently provided diplomatic ...
  1 week ago

• Spanish News-Western Sahara

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 148
  Western Sahara used to be a Spanish colony and when the Spanish withdrew in 1975 it was annexed by Morocco.Morocco is now offering Western Sahara autonomy rather than the independence which was proposed by the UN in 1991. Recently diplomatic tensions have been running high between Spain and Morocco because of a ...
  1 week ago

• Aminatou Haidar

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 544
  Western Sahara human rights activist Aminatou Haidar ended her 32 day hunger strike after Morocco finally allowed her to return to the capital Laayoune. Aminatou returned to Western Sahara after a trip abroad and insisted on maintaining her nationality as Western Saharan and not Moroccan. The Western Sahara has been ...
  1 week ago

• French President Welcomes Moroccan Sahara Autonomy Initiative

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has welcomed the Moroccan proposal for autonomy in Western Sahara as part of a political solution under the auspices of the United Nations. The statement issued Thursday in Paris said that Moroccan law applies to the Sahara, pending such a solution. Nicolas Sarkozy expressed ...
  1 week ago

• Morocco yields to pressure, activist back home

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  Source: Reuters * Sahara independence activist return home * Hunger strike forces Morocco to give up (Adds Haidar comments, paragraphs 3-4) By Lamine Ghanmi RABAT, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A Western Sahara ...
  1 week ago

• Sahrawi activist returned to Laayoune last night

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 123
  After voluntarily checking herself into the hospital on Thursday morning, Haidar was allowed to return home to Laayoune in the Western Sahara Thursday evening. The BBC reported Today that “It now appears that frantic multi-country talks were under way to seek a resolution … [but ] details of how a deal was ...
  1 week ago

• Morocco: Haidar Returns Home

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Middle East Online  reports  that Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar has returned home after starting a hunger strike over a month ago. Police stated Haidar fulfilled entry requirements by signing a form that she was “arriving in Morocco.” In response to the news, Secretary Clinton said she was ...
  1 week ago

• Western Sahara activist returns home from Spain

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  Source: Reuters * Activist Haidar ends hunger strike * Her return defuses tension between Rabat and Madrid RABAT, Dec 18 (Reuters) - A Western Sahara independence activist ended a ...
  1 week ago

• FACTBOX-Western Saharas dispute with Morocco

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  Source: Reuters Dec 17 (Reuters) - Campaigner Aminatou Haidars hunger strike at a Spanish airport drew attention to Western Saharas fight for independence from Morocco. Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size ...
  1 week ago

• Expelled Sahara activist returns

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  A Western Sahara activist expelled by Morocco is allowed to return from Spain where she was on hunger strike. See the original post here: Expelled Sahara activist returns
  1 week ago

• W.Sahara hunger striker to fly home soon-

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  Source: Reuters * Independence movement official says deal struck * Activist Haidar earlier taken to a Spanish hospital * Newspaper says Spain in indirect talks with Morocco ...
  1 week ago

• Western Sahara hunger striker to fly home-Polisario

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 693
  Source: Reuters ALGIERS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - An deal has been reached to allow hunger striking Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar to be flown home from Spain, Western Saharas Polisario independence ...
  1 week ago

• King Mohammed VI of Morocco Speaks in Favor of His Country’s Sahara Autonomy Plan

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  King Mohammed VI of Morocco has spoken in favor of his country’s Sahara autonomy plan which he termed as a “basis” for the UN-backed negotiation process, at the African local governments’ summit “AFRICITIES” which opened in Marrakesh (centre) before some 5,000 participants. Morocco reasserted its ...
  1 week ago

• Enough With The Mindless Chauvinism

  
  A Moroccan About the world around him — Authority: 405
  To read the urgent rallying cries in the slogan riddled open letters and petitions circulated by some Moroccan associations in the U.S. against the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights for its support of Aminatou Haider, to browse the chauvinistic comments charged up readers posted on ...
  1 week ago

• Morocco: Sahara Activist Saga Continues

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 443
  Amnesty International has called for Morocco to allow Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar , who is currently on a hunger strike after being denied access to her homeland, be allowed to return to the Sahara.  In a petition to Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas El Fass i , Amnesty called on the “authorities in ...
  1 week ago

• Spanish FM to Sahrawi hunger striker: Abandon hunger strike

  
  UN-Truth — Authority: 123
  I guess she (Aminatou Haidar) hadn’t thought of this herself … [ Background: (1) According to a report from AFP on 21 November, " Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar has declined an offer by Madrid to grant her refugee status following her expulsion from the territory by Morocco, a representative said ...
  1 week ago

• New web addresses, courtesty of climategate

  
  SAND & DUST — Authority: 114
  I have a new address for my personal website, with details of my research, consultancy, publications and the like, here: http://www.nickbrooks.org/ The Western Sahara Project also has a new web address: http://www.nickbrooks.org/WS/WSahara.htm Note that we are currently looking for volunteers for a season of ...
  1 week ago

• Morocco says hunger strike is an ‘Algerian plot’ (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AFP - Morocco on Monday charged that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi activist on hunger strike in Spains Canary Islands, is part of a "systematic, methodical plot devised by Algeria."
  1 week ago

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