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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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Jul 18, 2012

Western Sahara: France position is "that defended by UN" - APS : Algérie Presse Service

ALGIERS – France position regarding Western Sahara is "that defended by UN," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius affirmed Monday in Algiers.

"Our position regarding Western Sahara issue is that advocated by the United Nations," Fabius told a news conference Press held in France ambassador residence.

"We are in line of the international legality as defended by the UN," said the French minister.

Unanimously adopted, on April 24, Resolution 2204 states that the UN Security Council "calls on the parties (Polisario Front and Morocco) to continue negotiations under the auspices of UN Secretary General, without preconditions and in good faith to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable, which allows determination of the people of Western Sahara in the context of arrangements consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter ".

The resolution, which was extended by one year the mandate of the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), calls, furthermore, the Moroccan authorities to "improve the situation of human rights" in the occupied Saharawi territories.

Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa. It is considered non-autonomous territory by the UN since 1966.

Africa's last colony -Western Sahara

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