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Free Western Sahara Aotearoa protest action at Environment Canterbury

SPS 16/02/2020 - 09:53

Friday, 14 February

'Moroccan whitewashing of the blood phosphate trade to NZ'

SPS 15/02/2020 - 06:15

Thursday, 13 February, 2020

New Zealand is once again the subject of attention by Moroccan agents who seek to perpetuate the illegal import of plundered phosphate rock from Western Sahara. Morocco has dispatched a large delegation to New Zealand to lobby for the continuation of the illegal phosphate trade.

South Africa boycotts regional tournament over Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara

SPS 19/01/2020 - 20:06

The South African Football Association (SAFA) on Wednesday announced its decision to withdraw from the 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nation due to the tournament being hosted in the city of Laayoune in the disputed Western Sahara region.

SAFA in their decision said this was in line with the South African government and African Union (AU) resolution, hence, displaying their solidarity with the Sahrawi to fulfil its agreement with the AU.

Ravensdown's Western Sahara story rebutted

SPS 18/01/2020 - 12:22

Saturday, 18 January 2020, 12:21 pm

Press Release: Western Sahara Campaign

Western Sahara, clear-cut conflict of decolonization in Africa

SPS 26/12/2019 - 13:28

By Hana Saada

December 23, 2019

'Blood phosphate' imports from Western Sahara may prompt illegal port strikes - union

SPS 14/12/2019 - 10:38

Fertiliser companies importing so-called "blood phosphate" from Western Sahara could face illegal strike action by port workers in future, warn unions.

A ship chartered by Ravensdown, the Federal Crimson, is currently unloading the last of 51 tonnes of phosphate at Port Chalmers, after earlier docking in Napier and Lyttleton.

At each port, it has been boarded by members of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, who have handed protest letters to the captain.

Pandor: African Countries must condemn Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara

SPS 03/12/2019 - 07:48

Jean-Jacques Cornish

PRETORIA (SOUTH Africa)- Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor on Monday said African countries should join South Africa in stressing that Morocco’s continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara was unacceptable.

She was speaking at a memorial service she hosted for the Western Sahara ambassador Radhi Bashir who died last week.

'Gandhi of Western Sahara' warns time running out to avoid war

SPS 03/12/2019 - 07:40

Geneva (AFP)- Aminatou Haidar, a champion of peaceful resistance to Morocco's annexation of Western Sahara, is demanding urgent -international action to prevent the frozen conflict from devolving into war.

The 52-year-old Sahrawi human rights activist, who on Wednesday will receive a top human rights award in Stockholm, said she feared that youth in the disputed region have given up hope of achieving self-rule through non-violent means.

An Exiled Nation: Saharawi advocates call on the world to support self-determination for Western Sahara

SPS 07/10/2019 - 18:32

For 40 years, the Saharawi people have been exiled from their homeland, cast out into what is known as the “desert of deserts”, where they live in hope of one day experiencing a long-awaited return to their promised land: their homeland of Western Sahara.

Western Sahara: SADR Threatens to Adopt Anti-Apartheid Strategy to End Moroccan Occupation

SPS 21/09/2019 - 12:40

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The struggle for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara has taken a new dimension as the proponents of self-rule said that they would henceforth adopt the method used in ending the inglorious apartheid regime in South Africa.

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