Western Sahara

scheerpost.com
View In: Western SaharaAfter 30 years of peace, the Polisario Front holds its 16th Congress amidst the war against Morocco’s invasion. The post Direct From Western Sahara: Learn About the Struggle of the Last Colony in Africa appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Western Sahara“We are being told by the West to simply accept our reality — the reality of occupation,” Sahrawi journalist Nazha el-Khalidi tells me. “Why don’t we have the same right to self-determination as Ukrainians?” El-Khalidi’s comments were made against the background of a major diplomatic shift in recen...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Western SaharaOn February 17, French president Emmanuel Macron announced the withdrawal of his country’s forces from Mali, following a humiliating breakdown in relations with the ruling junta in Bamako and the failure of the French military to combat an Islamist insurgency in the Sahel. The announcement caused consternatio...

Popular Resistance
View In: Western SaharaImmediately following the expulsion of the Spanish colonizers in the mid 1970's, Western Sahara was occupied by Moroccan forces. With support from the United States, those occupiers, who treat the indigenous Sahrawi People very similarly to the way the Israeli occupiers treat the Palestinians, have bee...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Western SaharaTrump recognized the wholesale annexation of one country by another. If Biden lets that stand, the global implications are deeply troubling.