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  With all eyes on Gaza, Morocco strengthens its hold on Western Sahara ...

  2024415 · But the Israeli influence in Morocco goes even further: in 2022, an Israeli company called NewMed Energy stated that it had signed an agreement with Morocco to explore and produce offshore natural gas in occupied Western Sahara, in a move eerily reminiscent to the Biden administration’s plans to develop offshore gas reserves in Gaza.

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  Western Sahara’s ‘frozen conflict’ heats up, but world’s …

  202321 · The declaration of a “return to the armed struggle” by the Polisario followed a clash with Moroccan forces in a buffer zone. Morocco has since ramped up the use of drone strikes on military and civilian infrastructure along a 2,700-kilometre wall that separates the “occupied territory” from the remote desert regions controlled by Sahrawi …

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  NOMADS – Supporting human rights, cultural heritage and …

  NOMADS – Supporting human rights, cultural heritage and media in Western Sahara. At NomadsHRC, we are helping the Sahrawi people to build a path of liberation through cultural, human rights and media activism. We support our partners through capacity building and international awareness-raising so that Sahrawi self-determination is not just …

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  wi - Western Sahara :: The World Factbook

  202122 · Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory on the northwest coast of Africa bordered by Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria. After Spain withdrew from its former colony of Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara and claimed the rest of the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal.

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  FiSahara Film Festival Puts Sahrawi Refugees From Moroccan-Occupied ...

  20221125 · Deep in the Algerian desert, a Sahrawi-run event puts Western Sahara’s struggle for liberation on the big screen.

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  Morocco and the Western Sahara: The Largest Territorial …

  2023913 · Morocco is constantly attempting to impede the whole referendum situation and is also in the meantime exploiting the natural resources of the territory. The part of Western Sahara occupied by the Moroccans has some of …

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  Western Sahara Resource Watch

  2021930 · To immediately stop purchases of produce exported from occupied Western Sahara without the consent of the Saharawi people, and switch to suppliers that show respect for EU law and corporate responsibility.

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  Spain Endorses Morocco’s Plan for Governing Western Sahara …

  2022319 · Moroccan forces occupied Western Sahara after Spain withdrew in 1975. But the Polisario Front declared independence, calling the territory the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

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  Western Sahara | South African History Online

  202477 · Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and its indigenous Saharawi people, led by the Polisario Front.

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