Africa News Update
Western Sahara: Aminatou Haidar - the shame of Spain (analysis)
Abuja (Nigeria) - Aminatou Haidar is the mother of two sons. She was living with her family in Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony occupied by Morocco. That was until November 14 when a conspiracy between the democratic Zapatero government in Spain and the feudal regime in Morocco transformed her into a stateless person. Read >
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The Vanguard (Nigeria), by Owei Lakemfa
Western Sahara: Hunger striker intensifies pressure for talks
The month-long hunger strike of Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar has succeeded in bringing pressure to bear on the international community to step up efforts to find a solution to the territory's future. Read >
Thursday, 17 December 2009
allAfrica.com
Western Sahara: Human rights awardee deported by Morocco
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) — In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western Sahara, which Morocco controls. Read >
Monday, 16 November 2009
allAfrica.com
Western Sahara: Talks Produce... More Talks
Morocco and Western Sahara's Polisario Front are poised to possibly reach a political compromise on self-rule, following two days of negotiations in the United States, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday. While the two parties have not agreed to any substantive preconditioned accords, both agreed to meet again during the second week of August at the Greentree Estate in Manhasset, New York, said Peter van Walsum, the personal envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a communiqué following the talks.
Read >Thursday, 21 June 2007
Inter Press Service, by Barin Masoud
Western Sahara: After POW release, it is the International Community's turn to act
The Polisario Front released Thursday the last Moroccan prisoners of war that it was holding, which means it is now time for the United Nations, the European Union and the United States to press for a definitive solution to the situation in the Western Sahara, a representative of the independence movement told IPS in Spain. Read >
Thursday, 18 August 2005
IPS, by Alicia Fraerman
Western Sahara: Algeria favours three-nation mediation
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has suggested that "Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa begin negotiations with Morocco and the Polisario Front, the two parties to the conflict, on the process of de-colonising the Western Sahara." Read >
Monday, 25 October 2004
Pan African News Agency