Timor-Leste Hosts Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference with Western Sahara and Reiterates Unwavering Support for the Right to Self-Determination of the Saharawi People
Government of Timor-Leste
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May 21, 2025
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Deputy Minister Alvin Botes: International Relations and Cooperation Dept Budget Vote 2025/26
South African Government
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July 4, 2025
Honourable House Chairperson, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Moraka, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Director-General Zane Dangor and Members of the South African...
Minister Ronald Lamola: Pre-Budget International Relations and Cooperation Media Briefing
South African Government
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July 5, 2025
Africa: Implementing Agenda 2063 Our foreign policy is an extension of our domestic imperatives on human rights and resolving the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment. Through attracting Foreign Direct Investment, we intend to...
Deputy Minister Thandi Moraka: International Relations and Cooperation Dept Budget Vote 2025/26
South African Government
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July 4, 2025
Honourable Speaker / House Chair, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Botes, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Senior Officials of DIRCO led by Director-General Zane...
French embrace of Moroccan autonomy plan underscores broader shift on Western Sahara dispute
Middle East Institute
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August 8, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron’s letter of congratulations to the Moroccan sovereign Mohammed VI on the 25th anniversary of his rise to the throne unveiled a major policy shift regarding the Western Sahara conflict. Macron announced that France...
UK supports controversial autonomy bid for African zone
MENAFN
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June 3, 2025
(MENAFN) The UK has shifted its longstanding neutral stance by supporting Morocco’s proposal to grant limited autonomy to Western Sahara, a territory embroiled in a decades-long dispute in North Africa. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy...
UK Backs Morocco’s Autonomy Proposal
MENAFN
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June 2, 2025
(MENAFN) The United Kingdom has officially supported Morocco’s initiative to grant limited self-governance to Western Sahara, concluding decades of its neutral stance on one of North Africa’s longest-running territorial conflicts. During a visit...
Kenya Inaugurates First Embassy in Morocco
MENAFN
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May 27, 2025
(MENAFN) Kenya officially inaugurated its first embassy in Morocco on Monday, marking 60 years of diplomatic relations and signaling a significant strengthening of bilateral ties alongside a major policy shift on the Western Sahara issue. The...
Russia’s Grain Shipments to Africa Soar as European Supplies Dip
MENAFN
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June 2, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia’s grain shipments to Africa have soared this agricultural season, with exports to North Africa climbing 10%, a senior Russian trade official revealed on Thursday. This growth marks Moscow’s expanding influence in a wheat market...
US voices remarks on North African regional dispute
MENAFN
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April 23, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States has reiterated its recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio endorsing Rabat’s autonomy plan as the only realistic path toward resolving the long-standing conflict over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
