Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Oumar

Amnesty International welcomed the news that Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi human rights activist who has spent the past month on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport, has returned home and been reunited with her children. Aminatou Haidar said that she was allowed to fly back to Western Sahara on a private plane after being informed by a Spanish official that an agreement was reached between the Moroccan and Spanish authorities. Her passport was returned to her on arrival by the Moroccan authorities. She told Amnesty International on Friday that her return was “a victory for human rights and justice”. Aminatou Haidar has been on hunger ... Read Full Story

Because of the violence in Western Sahara Mauritania and the Maghreb in general the Dakar to Paris rally was held this year for the first time in South America, between Argentina and Chile. The route had been rerouted several times - but after tourists were executed by al Qaeda affiliates in Mauritania, the organizers decided the entire regions was too risky, postponed the rally and then moved it across the ocean. Likely Islamic areas will increasing be barred from hosting major sporting events due to hostilities. Incredible scenes from this poverty stricken nation/disputed enclave of Western Sahara. A total of 229 US legislators have ... Read Full Story

By Carlos Ruiz Miguel The European Parliament Report on human rights in Western Sahara, in spite of its room for improvement, is quite balanced and comes at a very opportune moment. In this brief analysis, based on which the human rights of the Sahrawi people are, we will expose the risks run by the European Parliament when making this report, to later go into a detailed analysis regarding the virtues and deficits of the document. It is no wonder that the Moroccan power (Majzen) is pulling all the strings in an attempt to distort it. This report, at this very moment, only counters the ... Read Full Story

allAfrica.com: Morocco: Government Uses Torture to Silence Sahrawi Activists This article, although a bit lengthy, will literally amaze you as you never hear about this on the news or anywhere for that matter! But, we are going to publish to this blog, some interesting facts about the ongoing human rights conflict between the Sahrawi's and the government of Morocco. These are horrendous violations of "under the radar" human rights miss-happenings to say the very least! According to very reliable source published in AllAfrica.com: "At 9:00 pm on Thursday 27 August, 19 year-old Nguia El Haouassi, a Sahrawi woman, a student and a human rights ... Read Full Story

North Africa’s history of turbulence, exchange, cooperation and, these days, rivalry. There is small corner of North Africa known as the Western Sahara, about the size of Colorado, rich in fishing and mineral resources and coveted by people who could be cousins, indeed who often are. But it is unclear to whom this patch of land belongs. It is claimed by both Morocco and the nearby Sahara Arab Democratic Republic, and of course disputes of this sort are never merely local. Under George W. Bush, the U.S. backed Morocco’s claims, but the new administration seems to lean toward the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic, whose ... Read Full Story