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UK’s Support: New Turning Point in Morocco’s Race to End Western Sahara Dispute
Morocco World News
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June 2, 2025
Washington DC – Morocco appears to have reached its cruise speed in this decades-spanning race to end the frustratingly lingering dispute over the Western Sahara. Less than a week ago, Kenya – once a stronghold of Polisario separatism and one the...
Western Sahara: U.S. Defense Forum Foundation urges President Trump to end Africa’s last case of decolonisation
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid ElHafed (Sahrawi Republic) 29 May 2025 (SPS)- A high-level delegation from the U.S.-based Defense Forum Foundation (DFF) recently visited the Sahrawi refugee camps and launched a renewed appeal to US President Donald Trump to help resolve...
The Fórum Canario Saharaui welcomes the United Kingdom's support for Morocco's proposal for autonomy for Western Sahara
Atalayar
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June 3, 2025
The Fórum Canario Saharaui welcomes the historic announcement by the United Kingdom of its support for Morocco's Autonomy Plan for the Sahara, describing it as ‘the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting settlement of the...
Dominica reaffirms full support for Morocco Autonomy Plan in Western Sahara
Dominica News Online
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June 2, 2025
Dominica News Online - Monday, June 2nd, 2025 at 12:56 PM Dominica’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Philbert Aaron. Photo credit: HESSPRESS.Dominica has reasserted that it fully supports the Morocco Autonomy Plan saying it is “the solution of...
UK backs Morocco’s Western Sahara autonomy plan, angering Algeria
Middle East Eye
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June 1, 2025
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy has declared the UK’s support for Morocco’s 2007 autonomy proposal for Western Sahara, marking a significant diplomatic shift likely to anger Algeria. During a visit to Rabat on Sunday, Lammy described the...
Morocco and Israel forge economic quid pro quo on the backs of Palestine and Western Sahara
Il Manifesto
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May 31, 2025
In Morocco, the mobilization against normalizing relations with Israel has never run out of steam in the more than two years of war. While the royal palace maintains its “complicit silence,” the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against...
International Conference in Argentina: Emphasis on unifying media efforts to break blockade on occupied Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Buenos Aires, 30 May 2025 (SPS) – The Second International Conference of Journalists and Media Professionals in Solidarity with the Sahrawi People condemned the Moroccan occupation's criminalization of journalistic work in occupied Western Sahara....
Heidelberg Materials confirms supplying controversial projects in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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May 29, 2025
The massive ports that Morocco is constructing in occupied Western Sahara are made with cement of the German multinational. Photo: Heidelberg Materials' factory in El Aaiun, occupied Western Sahara. At its Annual General Meeting on 15 May 2025,...
The Bourita Effect: Kenya’s Western Sahara U-turn Is a Testament to Morocco’s Visionary Diplomacy
Morocco World News
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May 28, 2025
Washington DC – Three years ago, I suggested that Kenya’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, and its rejection of the separatist project, was a matter of time. In September and November 2022, I published two articles analyzing...
Spanish intelligence warns of Polisario links to terrorism in the Sahel
Hespress
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June 8, 2025
A new report from Spain’s National Intelligence Center warns that extremist elements from the Polisario Front have joined terrorist groups operating in the Sahel, including al-Qaeda and ISIS. The report, cited by Spanish media, highlights a...
Kenya’s First Embassy in Morocco Marks Shift on Western Sahara
Media Line
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May 27, 2025
Kenya has opened its first embassy in Morocco, signaling a diplomatic makeover and a new level of cooperation between the two nations. The launch, held Monday in Rabat, came as the countries celebrated 60 years of diplomatic ties—with Kenya using...
Speaking French, Swedish, German… the migrants booted out of EU in asylum crackdown & on small boats to ‘soft touch’ UK
The Scottish Sun
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June 19, 2025
MORE than 2,000 migrants are massing in the Jungle camp outside Dunkirk in northern France. And their aim — to cross the Channel and take advantage of “soft touch” Britain after they were turfed out by the EU countries where they previously lived....
From Media Darling to Persona Non Grata: Greta Thunberg’s Journey
MintPress News
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June 6, 2025
Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to...
TAQA and NAREVA won gigantic energy project in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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May 22, 2025
The firms are to construct 1,200 MW of wind power capacity in occupied Western Sahara, and a 1,400 km transmission line to transport the electricity to Morocco proper – assisting the North African kingdom in its blatant violation of international...
Open letter from media and press freedom organisations on Gaza access
World Association of News Publishers
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June 5, 2025
WAN-IFRA has joined more than 130 global leaders of news and press freedom organisations to call on world leaders, governments, and international institutions to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given immediate,...
How the Almoravids Became a Medieval Empire
Medievalists.net
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June 19, 2025
When a Berber reform movement emerged from the fringes of the western Sahara in the 11th century, few could have predicted it would grow into a medieval empire stretching from North Africa to Iberia. Yet the Almoravids did just that—combining...
CPJ and Global Media Call for Reporter access to Gaza
Havana Times
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June 5, 2025
In a photograph taken from southern Israel, smoke billows across destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli bombing on May, 27, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Jack Guez) By The Committee to Protect Journalists HAVANA TIMES – More than 130 global...
The New Arab, over 120 organisations call for Gaza media access
The New Arab
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June 5, 2025
The New Arab has joined over 120 international media organisations in an open letter calling for full access to the Gaza Strip to report on Israel’s war. The open letter has been coordinated by the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent...
CPJ, other media leaders call for unrestricted access to Gaza for journalists
Premium Times
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June 5, 2025
New York, June 5, 2025—More than 130 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Thursday to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given...
The Mauritanian army stands firm against the Polisario in Lebriga
Atalayar
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June 5, 2025
Operational context: the interception on 3 June The closure of Lebriga: a strategic decision Geopolitical implications Regional dynamics IHL recommendations Operational context: the interception on 3 June On 3 June 2025, a Mauritanian patrol...