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Portugal expresses its full support for Morocco's Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara
Atalayar
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July 23, 2025
Portugal has reached a new milestone in Moroccan foreign policy with the announcement of its full support for the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara proposed by King Mohammed VI of Morocco in 2007. With this announcement, more than 120...
Portugal Backs Morocco’s Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal
StratNews Global
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July 22, 2025
Home Africa Portugal Backs Morocco’s Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal The dispute, dating back to 1975, pits Morocco - which claims sovereignty over Western Sahara - against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which seeks an independent state...
The Moroccan Sahara will bloom: Christopher Nolan’s filming in Dakhla puts the seal of approval to the region’s development and future
The Times of India
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July 30, 2025
Christopher Nolan’s latest production ‘The Odyssey’ is facing some criticism because a part of it was shot in the Moroccan Sahara city of Dakhla. The protests are coming from so-called Sahrawi activists and FiSahara, which organises a movie...
Portugal signals support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara
SRN News
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July 22, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco’s autonomy proposal for the disputed Western Sahara region, after Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel...
Can the Vulnerable Seychelles Sustain Another Resort?
Foreign Policy
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July 30, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Environmentalists protest a resort project in the Seychelles, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces name a rival government, and Nigeria wins the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations soccer...
The MKP’s two-faced foreign relations on Western Sahara
Sunday Independent
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July 22, 2025
Siyabonga Hadebe|Published 49 minutes ago 9min THE Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a complete African Union (AU) member state and is recognised by more than 40 United Nations (UN) member states. Despite decades of occupation by Morocco and the...
Sahrawi Observatory for Children and Women in Occupied El Aaiun condemns Moroccan occupation's attempts to erase national and cultural identity of Sahrawi children
Sahara Press Service
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Occupied El Aaiun, July 25, 2025 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Observatory for Children and Women in Occupied El Aaiun has strongly condemned the Moroccan occupation's attempts to erase the national and cultural identity of Sahrawi children in the occupied...
American channel highlights latest developments in Sahrawi cause
Sahara Press Service
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Washington, 29 July 2025 (SPS) – The American news outlet Break Through News shed light on recent developments in Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony, and Morocco’s strategy against the Sahrawi people through "systematic repression" and the...
Municipality of Logroño holds reception in honor of Sahrawi children on Holidays in Peace program
Sahara Press Service
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Logroño (Spain), 23 July 2025 (WAS) – The Spanish municipality of Logroño organized a welcoming ceremony in honor of Sahrawi children arriving from THE refugee camps as part of the Holidays in Peace program, coordinated by solidarity movements in...
Mayor of Mérida warmly welcomes Sahrawi children
Sahara Press Service
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Mérida (Spain), 23 July 2025 (SPS) – The Mayor of Mérida, Antonio Rodríguez Osuna, accompanied by Allali El Mami, the Polisario Front's representative in Extremadura, and Juan Eusebio Solís, president of the solidarity association "NUR" with the...
Morocco's king calls for addressing regional inequalities
The New Arab
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July 30, 2025
Morocco's King Mohammed VI waits to greet France's President in the capital Rabat on October 28, 2024. [Getty] Morocco's King Mohammed VI urged on Tuesday the government to elaborate a new generation of reforms to ensure equal development between...
Sahrawi people prepare to commemorate 50th anniversary of National Unity and historic national occasions
Sahara Press Service
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Shaheed El Hafed, July 29, 2025 (SPS) – The Sahrawi people are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of National Unity amid successive victories achieved by the national cause, which embodies a struggle marked by numerous gains and...
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI calls for addressing regional inequalities
Joy FM
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July 29, 2025
Morocco's King Mohammed VI urged the government on Tuesday to elaborate a new generation of reforms to ensure equal development between the country's regions. "It is not acceptable for Morocco – today or at any time in the future – to be a...
Morocco plans massive AI center in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 13, 2025
A 500 MW hyperscale data center for Artificial Intelligence is being envisaged in the occupied territory. The above picture is, for once, AI generated. In a move that deepens its hold over Western Sahara, Morocco has announced plans to build a...
Christopher Nolan Criticized for Filming 'They Odyssey' in Western Saharah
Movie Web
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July 29, 2025
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is already a complex story to film without the Oscar-winning director being urged to shut down filming and move to a new location by the Western Sahara International Film Festival. The criticism of Nolan shooting...
Ecrainville welcomes Sahrawi children in spirit of solidarity and brotherhood
Sahara Press Service
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Ecrainville, July 21, 2025 (SPS) – As it has every summer for several years, the town of Ecrainville (Normandy) welcomed a group of Sahrawi children as part of a solidarity program organized by the "Camion Citerne pour les réfugiés Sahraouis"...
Sahrawi Government condemns attempt to film in occupied Dakhla, deems it violation of international law and cultural ethics
Sahara Press Service
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Shaheed El Hafed, July 20, 2025 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Government has condemned an attempt to film a cinematic work in occupied Dakhla, considering it a violation of international legitimacy and the ethics of cultural and artistic work. In a...
Vitry-sur-Seine organizes reception in honor of Sahrawi and Palestinian children, symbols of peace and solidarity
Sahara Press Service
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Vitry-sur-Seine, July 20, 2025 (SPS) – The city of Vitry-sur-Seine organized, as it does every summer, an official reception in honor of Sahrawi and Palestinian children hosted in the municipality. The event took place in the presence of Mayor...
Emirati wind farm planned in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 9, 2025
A company from the UAE is set to develop a new controversial wind farm in occupied Western Sahara later this year. Photo: Electrical post in the outskirts of El Aaiún, occupied Western Sahara, 2024. In June, Moroccan media reported that YNNA, a...
Adala UK Condemns Morocco's Expulsion of Spanish Observers from Occupied Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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London (UK) 9 July 2025 (SPS)– Adala UK, a human rights organization based in the United Kingdom, today strongly condemned the latest expulsion of international observers from Western Sahara by Moroccan occupation authorities. On Tuesday, Moroccan...