Grief in Western Sahara as national symbol has passed away.
Mariam Hassan has during several decades articulated the Saharawi people's resistance and sufferings.
Hassan was born into a family of musicians in 1958, in what was then called Spanish Sahara. IN 1975, when Moroco and Mauritania occupied Western Sahara, she and her family fled to the Saharawi refugee camps, where she first served as a nurse. Three of her brothers died during the war.
For a number of years, she has travelled on tours to music festivas with her traditional and highly political blues. She has been a fundamentally important ambassador and source of inspiration for the Saharawi people.
For more than ten years, she fought a private battle against cancer, and many of her songs cover that topic.
American and Norwegian observers deported from Western Sahara
A US and Norwegian citizen are at this moment deported from occupied Western Sahara by Moroccan police for meeting local human rights defenders, day before UN Security Council vote.
Trump wants to give Western Sahara to Morocco – and Europe is helping him
For the first time in UN history, the Security Council is about to bless an occupation. On 30 October, the Council will vote on a resolution stating that there is only one solution for Western Sahara: becoming part of Morocco. The draft was written by the Trump administration.
New report: Sahrawi students beaten, isolated and denied medical care in Moroccan prisons
They were beaten with batons until they nearly lost consciousness and threatened with rape if they did not confess. This is the testimony of recently released Sahrawi students in a new report following a decade in Moroccan prisons.
