Category Archives: Morocco
Human Rights Watch 2013 Report Morocco/Western Sahara
Human rights conditions were decidedly mixed in Morocco, as a 2011 constitution containing strong human rights provisions did not translate into improved practices. While Moroccans exercised their right to protest in the streets, the police often dispersed them violently, and protest leaders and dissidents risked imprisonment after unfair trials, sometimes based on the many laws […]
Timbuktu Who’s Who
First Published: 12 July 2012. Updated: 8 February 2013 Jump to News Update Notes MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad) The MNLA is a very recent organisation with a very old cause: the Tuareg have been fighting an insurgency against the central power in Mali since the late 1950s and openly fighting since 1963. This […]
Western Sahara Under Mounting Pressure
Heightened Security “We’ve been building a lot of new walls lately,” says Polisario Front commander Ahmed Salem as he drives his 4 X 4 across Tindouf in Western Algeria. But the newly introduced security measures may not be enough to ensure the survival of the Western Sahrawis. Salem Ahmed drives along the desert sand wall […]
Western Sahara: a South Sudan Suggestion
The New York Bar Association has issued a document recommending that a referendum be held in Western Sahara which follows the same lines as the South Sudan referendum on independence, making references to international law and claiming that such a right to independence is covered by its terms. The document issued by the New York […]
#WesternSahara’s Overlooked Arab Spring
In the wake of the ongoing unrest across the Arab world, voices from the forgotten Western Sahara conflict claim their role in the so-called Arab Spring. DW talked to a Western Sahara independence activist. Sidi Ahmed Talmidi was one of the nine-member group responsible for the negotiations with the Moroccan government during the events in […]
