Western Sahara News

Banjul (Gambia), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) condemned in the strongest terms the abduction of three humanitarian NGO workers from Sahrawi Refugee Camps, in a communiqué during a meeting at its 50th Ordinary Session held from 24 October to 05 November, 2011 in Banjul, Gambia, received by SPS. “The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is concerned that these reported abductions will have a very negative impact on the refugees being assisted by aid organisations. In that regard, the Commission condemns in the strongest terms such acts and demands the immediate and unconditional release of these hostages,

Houston , November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is very pleased to announce it has executed an Assurance Agreement for a Production Sharing Contract for the Imlili Block in the Western Sahara with Wessex Exploration PLC and Tower Resources Limited, confirmed a statement of SADR Oil and Gas Exploration, received by SPS Tuesday.

Infinite is a project realiced in the Saharawis refugee camps in Tindouf. Is incredible the history of the Saharawi people who live since more than 36 years in exile. Fighting a peaceful way with projects as Artifariti. The Sahara, under hard conditions of life, living in the so called “the desert of the deserts” a land that has no end, where time doesn’t exist. This mystic culture, full of magic is in a political conflict whose solution isn´t appropriate for many countries, including mine.

The NYT has a look at the big picture view of fund manager Jeremy Grantham – Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem? . Sitting in a Panera in Boston’s financial district in early July with Jeremy Grantham, I suddenly found myself considering how I might safeguard my children’s and notional grandchildren’s future by somehow engineering the U.S. annexation of Morocco.

Regional integration of the Maghreb is essential to the U.S. strategy of “trading blocs” behind globalization is still not a reality despite many partnerships United States/North Africa or Europe / North Africa set up for this purpose. At the root of these failures, permanent differences between countries of the region for economic but also political choices. Will changes in recent months following the Arab revolt, lead to a new geopolitical configuration that can remove the conflict of Western Sahara’s characteristic

By Abdulaziz Al-Mossalem Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, 127 have recognised a Palestinian state. When the UN cultural body (UNESCO) voted on admitting Palestine as a full member, what came as a surprise was that of the 66 states not recognising Palestine, seven (Myanmar, France, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland and Austria) voted yes. One Israeli academic expressed a pervasive view among those states which stand against the Palestinian bid for full UN membership.

The true story of Australia's vast mineral wealth and the men and companies digging in the dirt to get it. Synopsis "They put the boys into the Anvil mining truck. They came for my dad. I asked them 'where are you taking him?' and they didn't answer." The Australian mining company trucks had come roaring into the African village and disgorged over 100 heavily armed Government soldiers. The rebels, protesting at the way the Australian company was mining the Congolese silver and copper without giving anything back to the local community, had already surrendered. But their looting of food and fuel from the Anvil Mining depot at Kilwa could not go unanswered.