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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.

The Western Sahara: forgotten first source of the Arab Spring

this is one part of the Arab Spring that western governments don't want to talk about. And their silence, and the UN's complicity in it, is why that repression continues, and a terrible injustice is perpetuated.

ISS - News - The Western Sahara and North African People’s Power

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 24, 2012

New round of Polisario Front-Morocco negotiations to be held next March ~ Diaspora Saharaui

Shaheed Elhafed (Refugee camps), Feb 14, 2012 (SPS) - New round of negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco will be held in the first half of Marsh at Greentree Estate, Manhasset (New York) under the UN auspices, in the presence of the two neighboring countries Algeria and Mauritania, a Saharawi official reveled Sunday.

The Personal Envoy of UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, asserted earlier that he would continue his efforts to promote the path of negotiations, underling he called the parties to a new round of informal talks next February at the Greentree Estate in Long Island (New York).

In interview with UN media center published last month, Ross stated that the Security Council now “expects the parties themselves to negotiate a political solution with the help of the UN, with the help of the neighboring States, with the help of the international community and to do so instead of reacting to settlement plans others have drawn up.”

He expressed hope “the people of Western Sahara hope whether they be in the occupied territory or in the refugee camps, will enjoy full human rights, including the freedom to express their views on their future and that the negotiators will take these views into account,”

It is worth mentioning that the Polisario Front and Morocco had begun in June 2007 direct negotiations under the auspices of the UN, with four rounds that took place in Manhasset (USA), and eight informal meetings in Vienna (Austria ), in Valletta (Malta) and in Manhasset. (SPS)

Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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