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IOM builds civil society capacity to combat human trafficking in Moroc...

April 3, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 2, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – IOM Morocco and IOM’s Regional Office for West Africa in Dakar have organized a training for civil society organizations on the ...

Danish protest against Moroccan kangaroo court

January 28, 2013 no comments

  Today, representatives of Danish solidarity organization Africa Contact, the Danish political party the Red-Green Alliance, Polisario, and others staged a protest outside the Moroccan Embassy ...

Danish delegation stalked by Moroccan police during visit to occupied ...

January 13, 2013 2 comments

”When we left our hotel, we discovered that we were being followed by a small army of Moroccan security officers. They obviously did not want the truth about the occupation of Western Sahara to be re...

Moroccan human rights violations on the rise

September 25, 2012 3 comments

“Severe beatings, sexual violence, and other forms of ill-treatment [against migrants] appear to be on the rise,” United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez,  said Saturday after re...

Morocco criticised for Western Sahara human-rights violations in Amnes...

May 24, 2012 no comments

“Security forces used excessive force against protesters. Critics of the monarchy and state institutions continued to face prosecution and imprisonment, as did Sahrawi advocates of self-determination...

Siemens criticised over Western Sahara deal

May 13, 2012 no comments

A spokesperson for the United Nations Global Compact has said that they “are looking into the issue” of the deal between Siemens Denmark and the Moroccan government to build 22 windmills near El Aaai...

Refugee starvation could trigger new war over Western Sahara says Mini...

February 23, 2012 3 comments

“The strategy of the Moroccan regime is to starve the Saharawi refugees into accepting the Moroccan position. They pressurize the UN into not giving the refugees more aid,” says the Minister of Coope...

Springtime for Western Sahara?

January 31, 2012 1 comment

In many North African and Arab countries, the demands for democracy and economic redistribution of the so-called “Arab Spring”, have sounded the loudest from the region’s youth. The press...

Danish Foreign Minister to pressurize Morocco on Western Sahara

November 20, 2011 5 comments

Cheikh Banga has been on a hunger strike since mid-September. His life is therefore in danger. But he is willing to risk his life for the cause he is fighting for – independence for the population of...

Morocco continues attacks on Western Sahara’s population

October 18, 2011 56 comments

Morocco’s Human Rights record in occupied Western Sahara has always been poor. But since the peaceful protest by ten of thousands of Saharawis (Western Sahara’s indigenous population) near El Aaiun i...

30 people are dead as plane crashed in Morocco

July 26, 2011 no comments

Over 30 people are said to have been killed when a Moroccan military plane slammed into a mountainside near Guelmim in the south of the country, the interior ministry and a local official said. ̶...

Protests in Morocco after vote for a new constitution

July 4, 2011 no comments

Moroccan pro-reform protesters were to take to the streets in several cities in the country in their first demonstration since voters overwhelmingly backed a new constitution curbing the powers of Ki...

Moroccan propaganda tries to muddle clear case for Western Saharan ind...

May 21, 2011 5 comments

“The Moroccan propaganda apparatus uses such myths as trying to link [Western Sahara’s liberation movement] Polisario to Al-Qaida in an attempt to defame, falsify and distort realities in order. This...

Court in Morocco frees Western Sahara activists after two years in det...

April 14, 2011 no comments

RABAT, April 14, 2011 (AFP) – A Casablanca court released from jail Thursday three activists for the independence of Western Sahara detained for more than two years and on trial for undermining...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco to implement major constitutional reforms

March 10, 2011 no comments

RABAT, March 10, 2011 (AFP) – Moroccans largely welcomed Thursday King Mohammed VI’s promise of sweeping reforms, announced as uprisings rock the Arab world, but said they wanted to see i...

Did Sekouba Konate betray Dadis Camara? – WikiLeaks documents reveal a...

December 16, 2010 no comments

The WikiLeaks documents have revealed fascinating details about the military junta in Guinea prior to the recent elections and the relationship between former Head of Sate Moussa Dadis Camara and int...