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Polisario rocket attack on Smara highlights use of Soviet-era weapons and Algerian involvement
Hespress
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June 30, 2025
The recent rocket attack on the southern Moroccan city of Smara has reignited concerns over the use of outdated, indiscriminate weaponry by the separatist Polisario Front, with experts calling the act a clear indication of the group’s terrorist...
Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council
Democracy Now!
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We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi journalist and activist Asria Mohamed speaks with Democracy...
A Battle for Humane Consciousness in a War Against Truth: Exposing the Dark Arts of War
Dissident Voice
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June 30, 2025
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of...
Algeria–U.S. energy ties grow amid Western Sahara tensions
Business Insider Africa
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June 29, 2025
This renewed engagement comes as part of Algeria’s broader push to assert economic diplomacy in the face of growing international pressure surrounding the long-standing territorial issue. On June 24, the Secretary-General of Algeria’s Ministry of...
U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Label Polisario Front as Terrorist Group
MENAFN
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June 30, 2025
(MENAFN) On Thursday, two members of the US House of Representatives formally introduced legislation in Congress seeking to classify the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization. The proposed bill reflects escalating concerns over the group's...
UN Rapporteur urges Morocco to end repression of human rights defenders in Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Geneva, 27 Jun 2025 (SPS) – Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concerns on Friday over Moroccan police violence against Sahrawi human rights activists Sidi Mohammed Daddach and...
Algeria court to rule on bid to double writer's jail term
Al-Monitor
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July 1, 2025
An Algerian court is expected to deliver a verdict Tuesday on prosecutors' bid to double the jail term of a dual-national author whose conviction has strained ties with France. Boualem Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars on...
World AFP Algeria court to rule on bid to double writer's jail term
Yahoo News
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An Algerian court is expected to deliver a verdict Tuesday on prosecutors' bid to double the jail term of a dual-national author whose conviction has strained ties with France. Boualem Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars on...
Native Sahrawis Fight to End Moroccan Occupation of Sahara at the UN
Truthout
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June 30, 2025
Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a...
Shivambu alleges MK Party took bribes from Morocco to shift Western Sahara stance
Zambian Observer
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June 20, 2025
Shivambu alleges MK Party took bribes from Morocco to shift Western Sahara stance Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu has accused the party’s leadership of accepting bribes from the Moroccan government to change its...
UK MPs to Discuss British-Moroccan Ties After Newfound Position on Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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June 17, 2025
Doha – The British Parliament is set to discuss the UK’s burgeoning relations with Morocco in a much-anticipated debate at Westminster Hall on Wednesday, June 18. The session comes just two weeks after London threw its weight behind Morocco’s...
Algeria State Media Brands US ‘Terrorist’ While Militaries Cooperate Closely
Morocco World News
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June 23, 2025
Algeria’s El Chourouk newspaper has launched a blistering attack on the US, labeling America as a “terrorist entity.” This incendiary rhetoric comes despite Algiers’ deepening military cooperation with Washington. The lengthy editorial, published...
Algeria sentences French football journalist to 7 years in jail
Bangladesh Post
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Algeria's authorities have sentenced a prominent French sports journalist specialised in African football to seven years in prison for "glorifying terrorism", media rights campaigners RSF said Sunday, denouncing the verdict as "nonsensical"....
ANC condemns Moroccan propaganda machine, affirms unwavering support for people of Western Sahara
Sahara Press Service
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Pretoria (South Africa), June 13, 2025 (SPS) - The African National Congress notes with contempt the recent disinformation peddled by an article that was published by “Morocco World News,” falsely claiming that South Africa has possible shifts on...
MKP backs Morocco’s Western Sahara claim and diverges from ANC stance
Times LIVE
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13 June 2025 - 11:03 Jacob Zuma’s MK Party, the official opposition, has backed Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, breaking from Zuma’s former party’s position regarding the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people. .. There’s...
New report: massive sand export from Western Sahara to the Canaries
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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June 11, 2025
Near a million tonnes of sand was exported from occupied Western Sahara to the Canaries during the last five years, a new WSRW report reveals. Tourists visiting the beaches of the Canary Islands remain blissfully unaware of the troubling history...
Moroccan minister's windmills arriving occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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June 10, 2025
Windmill components for yet another controversial windfarm are now arriving in the occupied territory. On the afternoon of 7 June 2025, the first windmills belonging to a company part-owned by the Moroccan Prime Minister, Aziz Akhannouch, arrived...
Algeria sentences French sports journalist to seven years behind bars
Modern Ghana
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Algerian authorities have sentenced a prominent French sports journalist to seven years in prison for "glorifying terrorism", media rights campaigners RSF have said, denouncing the verdict as "nonsensical". Christophe Gleizes, who contributes to...
Inconsistency on Western Sahara conflict damages Ghana's credibility – Nana Asafo-Adjei Ayeh
GhanaWeb
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June 10, 2025
The Deputy Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament and Member of Parliament for Bosome Freho, Nana Asafo-Adjei Ayeh, has criticised the government’s handling of Ghana’s foreign policy on the Morocco-Western Sahara conflict,...
French Sports Journalist Sentenced to Seven Years in Algeria
Morocco World News
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June 30, 2025
Rabat – An Algerian court has sentenced French journalist Christophe Gleizesto seven years in prison, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Algerian authorities arrested the 36-year-old freelance journalist, who writes for So Foot and...