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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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Apr 18, 2012

Inner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

On Western Sahara, France Says Only 1 "Friend Has Problems," Draft Not Agreed?

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 17 -- When the Western Sahara meeting of the UN Security Council let out on Tuesday, Inner City Press asked French Ambassador Gerard Araud if he thought the so-called Group of Friends on Western Sahara would come to an internal agreement on the draft resolution needed to extend the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping mission MINURSO before distributing it to all Security Council members.

In the past when this Group which does not contain any members from the African Union which supports Western Sahara's right to a referendum on self-determination released a draft its members all agreed and were sworn to support the draft in the wider Security Council, making further input and change impossible. If the Friends are not agreed, the other members can have a say.

Araud replied, "Yes, I hope so. There is still I guess one of the Friends that has problems. But I think we are close to an agreement."

Multiple sources have told Inner City Press that France, represented at this stage on the Group of Friends by its expert Mariam Diallo, has been opposing the resolution trying to ensure the MINURSO mission's "effectiveness" and, as before, human rights monitoring of the type other UN peacekeeping missions have.

In terms of Araud's assessment that only "one of the Friends.. has problems," Inner City Press is told that there at least two.

A Security Council member excluded from the Group of Friends, South Africa, said that the Friends have promised to circulate a draft "later today," whether it's agreed to by all the Friends of not. South African Permanent Representative Baso Sangqu told Inner City Press, "Our issue was that the earlier we all get involved,the better for everybody." Watch this site.

Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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