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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Sahrawi and Moroccans who inhabit the Western Sahara have been disputing the rightful ownership of the land since Spain ended its occupation of the area and withdrew in 1976.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Amajority of sixty- eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Image 1: Desert dust blown from the Western Sahara towards the Canary Islands, seen in this 300-m resolution Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. The wind can move between 60 and 200 million tons of fine dust up from the Sahara each year. Credits: ESAImage 2: An example of a GlobAerosol product: aerosol optical depth for the year 2007, derived from Envisat AATSR data. Credits:...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... well as for monitoring the transport of industrial pollution….. Desert dust blown from the Western Sahara towards the Canary Islands, seen in this 300-m resolution Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. The wind can move between 60 and 200 million tonnes of fine dust up from the Sahara each year. Photo by ESA
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell, communism collapsed, the Cold War ended and the world lived happily ever after. Well not quite - still to many people live behind brutal walls, be they dividing Israel and Palestine, stopping the unification of Korea or stopping the Western Sahara from having it's Independence back (to name just three) until these and other walls have been torn down the...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has announced that Western Sahara, which passed to Moroccan sovereignty in 1975, would be the priority of the country’s renationalisation process via an integrated plan which is expected to usher in a new chapter. The plan seeks to build the capacity of the territory (about 250,000 sq km) to run its local [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... in Somalia. Thousands flee ethnic violence in Northern DRC . Clinton stands by UN mediation for Western Sahara. Breakdown looms in Madagascar political talks. EUROPE Sarkozy warns David Cameron on stance over Europe and Lisbon treaty. Hillary Clinton to lead U.S. delegation at Berlin Wall. Medvedev: Arms control deal with US can be reached. AMERICAS U.S. health care nears major vote . Zelaya...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... week’s show featured Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio. He played music by a band from the Western Sahara, a New Zealand-based noise rock group and Kermit the Frog among others. Read and comment. From npr.org.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Morocco expels a Swedish diplomat for allegedly passing documents to separatist groups in Western Sahara.
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The human rights activist Brahim Dahane, human rights defenders in Western Sahara, is this year's winner of the Swedish Government's Per Anger award.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... for two days about his political activities.Brahim, 43, is a long-standing campaigner against Western Sahara's occupation by Morocco. He was arrested last month, with six others, when they returned from visiting Western Saharan refugee camps in Algeria.He has already spent four years in jail, where he claims he was tortured. This time, his family fear he could face life imprisonment...
...My heart's in Accra (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... or will not map.” As an example, he shows the dotted line on the Google map between Morocco and Western Sahara. That dotted line represents “an avoidance of taking a political stance.” Cartagen, at its root, is a rendering tool that renders in front of you at 15 frames a second. He’s used this to make a map of the world that loks like Warcraft II, converting contemporary map information...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... 3.49 annual population growth (PG) rate, good for 6th place behind Liberia, Burundi, Afghanistan, Western Sahara, and East Timor. Liberia’s population will double in 16 years, in Niger it’ll drag out to 20. Meanwhile, where’s India in the overpopulation picture? China? Pakistan? Indonesia? The Philippines? The United States? Ethiopia? Egypt? Nigeria? Bangladesh, drowning under the weight...
