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Morocco plans massive AI center in occupied Western Sahara
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 13, 2025
A 500 MW hyperscale data center for Artificial Intelligence is being envisaged in the occupied territory. The above picture is, for once, AI generated. In a move that deepens its hold over Western Sahara, Morocco has announced plans to build a...
Morocco and the plundering of Western Sahara, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf
Premium Times
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July 9, 2025
I have just completed reading the 2025 Saharawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental (SONREP) Report, titled “Sustainable for Whom? Western Sahara Renewable Energy and Environmental Justice under Occupational.” Its forty three pages...
Sahrawi diplomat responds to Moroccan allegations against the Polisario Front in the British Telegraph
Sahara Press Service
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Chahid Elhafed (Sahrawi Republic) 08 July 2025 (SPS)- Adala-UK and The Panafrikanist websites published an article Today signed by Sahrawi diplomat Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, in which he responds to an opinion piece by a certain Robert Clark,...
Report: China, Russia Likely to Recognize Moroccan Sovereignty Over Western Sahara
Morocco World News
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June 28, 2025
Marrakech – A recent report by the Migration Research Institute identifies Morocco as “the most stable country in the entire Maghreb” and indicates major diplomatic developments may soon reshape the Western Sahara dispute. Despite persistent...
Rights groups sound alarm over alleged exploitation of Sahrawi children in Polisario’s 'holidays for peace' program
Hespress
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July 8, 2025
The controversial “Holidays for Peace” program, overseen by the Polisario Front and supported by sympathetic European organizations, is under fire from Moroccan and Sahrawi rights activists who accuse the initiative of using Sahrawi children for...
Five years on, the Abraham Accords need a multilateral mission
Atlantic Council
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July 17, 2025
MENASource July 17, 2025 • 11:07 am ET Print this page Five years on, the Abraham Accords need a multilateral mission By Joseph Epstein Five years after the Abraham Accords normalized relations between four Arab nations and Israel, the historic...
Despite Mounting Evidence, Bolton Downplays Polisario’s Terrorism Against Morocco
Morocco World News
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June 30, 2025
Rabat – Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton– a vocal advocate for Polisario and its separatism claims targeting Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara – recently attempted to downplay Polisario’s terrorist...
Experts say Algeria is using Polisario terror to drag the region into war
Hespress
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June 28, 2025
Fresh rocket attacks near Smara have sparked strong reactions from Moroccan experts, who accuse Algeria of fueling violence through its support of the Polisario Front. According to researchers in political science and international relations,...
‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims
Mail & Guardian
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July 17, 2025
African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores. (AFP) Europeans may be horrified by United States President Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies, which include snatching people off the...
Lessons from a historic act of disarmament in Kurdistan
Waging Nonviolence
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July 15, 2025
On July 11, in the hills of Northern Iraq, a scene unfolded that would shake even the most experienced disarmament activist. Walking down a steep clearing to a makeshift staging area surrounded by several hundred community members and supporters,...
Wafcon: 3 signs that African women’s football is finally starting to thrive
The Conversation
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July 16, 2025
Women’s football in Africa has been through radical changes over the past few years. From small beginnings in the late 1990s, it has grown to the point that its biggest competition is receiving considerable global attention. The 2024 Women’s...
South African opposition party breaks ranks in backing Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Sahara
Hespress
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July 16, 2025
In a significant diplomatic development, South Africa’s opposition party uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party), led by former President Jacob Zuma, publicly endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, signaling a shift in the political discourse...
Morocco Advances Digital Sovereignty with 500 MW Green Data Hub
Arabian Post
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July 12, 2025
Morocco is embarking on an ambitious project to construct a 500 megawatt data centre powered entirely by renewable energy in Dakhla, Western Sahara, according to digital transition minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni. The facility aims to bolster...
A new era of Morocco-UK collaboration?
African Business
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July 9, 2025
Speaking in Rabat earlier this month, the UK’s foreign secretary David Lammy announced that his government would now be backing Morocco’s claims to sovereignty over the Western Sahara. Lammy said “the UK has chosen to endorse autonomy within the...
Companies involved in plundering Sahrawi wealth are perpetuating colonial situation
Sahara Press Service
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Berlin, 8 July 2025 (SPS) – German writer and international studies researcher Ramona Schnall emphasized that European companies complicit in looting the wealth of the Sahrawi people through illegal agreements with the Moroccan occupation not only...
Australia finally finished phosphate imports
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 7, 2025
The last remaining importer of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara in Australia has announced that it will no longer purchase the conflict mineral. The above picture shows the bulk vessel Clipper Isadora on its way through the Suez Canal,...
Hussain Al Nowais Highlights AMEA Power’s Role in Morocco’s Clean Energy...
Somers Point Sentinel - New Jersey
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July 10, 2025
In a powerful step toward reinforcing the global shift to clean energy, Hussain Al Nowais, Chairman of AMEA Power, has emphasized his company’s strategic collaboration with Morocco’s YNNA Group in launching a landmark renewable energy project: a...
What happened to the Dakhla bitcoin wind park?
Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW)
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July 2, 2025
In 2018, headlines announced that a massive wind-powered data centre for blockchain computing - combining renewable energy with next-generation finance - was about to rise from the sands near Dakhla, in occupied Western Sahara. The project, led by...
Sand and dust storms pose growing threat to global health and economy, WMO reports
Muser Press
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July 11, 2025
Sand and dust storms are affecting hundreds of millions of people across more than 150 countries, with rising consequences for public health, transportation, and agriculture, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization...
Yeslem Beisat: Championing Sahrawi people’s foreign interests, By Owei Lakemfa
Premium Times
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June 29, 2025
Yeslem Beisat So, what is the current state of affairs? Beisat said that since November 2020 when Morocco again attacked Western Sahara, seizing more lands, hostilities between the two armies have resumed. He pointed out that while Morocco claims...