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The Occupation We Choose to Ignore’

Do you know who I am? I am a Sahrawi. The land to which I refer is what is known today as the non-self-governing territory ofWestern Sahara. My country was colonized by the Spanish and the French between 1884 and 1975, divided in two and occupied by Moroccan and Mauritanian forces thereafter, and has been ruled exclusively by the Kingdom of Morocco from 1979 until the present.

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Respect the right of individuals to peacefully express their opinions regarding the status and future of the Western Sahara and to document violations of human rights

King of Morocco to be biggest benefactor of EU trade agreement - Telegraph

it has emerged that the single biggest beneficiary of the deal will be the King of Morocco, who is head of one of the three largest agricultural producers in the north African country and lays claim to 12,000 hectares of the nation's most fertile farmland.

North African Dispatches Africa’s Forgotten Colony

Oblivion it seems is the current reality for the arid North African territory of Western Sahara; often referred to as Africa’s ‘Last Colony’. In my opinion, it would be more accurate to describe it as ‘Africa’s Forgotten Colony’.

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Feb 26, 2012

Mauritanian intellectuals: Western Sahara issue is an obstacle in the way of Arab Maghreb Union | Sahara Press Service

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Nouakchott, Feb 20, 2012 (SPS) - Mauritanian intellectuals and former ministers have assured that the Saharawi issue “still remains an obstacle in the way of building the Arab Maghreb Union (French acronym: UMA),” in a seminar organized Thursday in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, on the occasion of the UMA establishment under the motto: “Arab Maghreb Union and the future prospects."

The intellectuals addressed, in the seminar which was organized by the Arab-African Centre for Media and Development, the achievements and failures of the Maghreb Union.

Speakers in the seminar focused on the status quo of countries of the Maghreb and the future horizons of the Maghreb Bloc, in the light of the political changes in the region, pointing to the security, political, economic and social issues that entirely call to the need to adhere to the Maghreb Union as a unitary and strategic option.

The presence stressed that the question of Western Sahara constitutes “the biggest obstacle to the construction of the Maghreb edifice aspired by peoples of the Region.

The seminar was attended by a number of political, intellectual and media figures including Naji Mohamed Imam, Abdeslam Ould Harma, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Amah, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Wadadi, Dean of Mauritania's National Bar Association (ONA) Ahmed Salem Ould Bouhoubeyni, Head of the Mauritanian Journalists’ Union Houssein Ould Maddu, Ahmed Baba Ould Meska, Ali Ould Allaf as well as the professors Ismail Shuaib, Mohammad Ould Mohamedou, Nan Ould Al-Mami, Ahmed Habib Al-Han, Yahya Hashmi and other cultural figures. (SPS)

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Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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