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Youth from Western Sahara and Morocco were this week to meet in London to discuss the Western Sahara conflict. Moroccan authorities have now sabotaged the talks, by denying the Moroccan and Sahrawi delegations exit from Morocco. "All the seven Moroccans had family problems", told the Moroccan ambassador to London.

Published 06 August 2009
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Polisario and the Moroccan government will meet in Vienna to start informal talks after new US intiative. The new UN Special Envoy, Christopher Ross, travelled the region last month and expressed optimism after talking to the governments of SADR, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Spain.

Published 03 August 2009
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Madrid, Aug 03, 2009: Sahara Press Service reports the Polisario Front representative in Spain, Bucharaya Hamoudi Beyoun, describing the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara as "dead".
Published 03 August 2009
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Mohammed Abdelaziz, President of SADR and General Secretary of Polisario was the Guest of Honor at the 2009 IUSY festival in Hungary. He gave a speech before the participants of a conference on Western Sahara organised by IUSY at the festival. Read full transcript below.

Published 31 July 2009
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ZANKA, HUNGARY: The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), met in Zanka, Hungary at the World Youth Festival under the theme ‘Development for Freedom - Our War on Poverty’ from June 15th to 21st. SADR President Mohammed Abdelaziz was invited as a Guest of Honor and IUSY passed a statement on Western Sahara for the occasion. 

Published 30 July 2009
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WASHINGTON, July 27, 2009 - President Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Morocco seemed to confirm a U.S. policy shift on the Western Sahara in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Published 29 July 2009
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Norway is now doubling its support to the Sahrawi people, making NOK 11.9 million available in 2009. “The support is mainly intended to alleviate the very precarious humanitarian situation in the refugee camps,” said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere.

Published 14 July 2009
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Obama reverses Bush-backed Morocco plan in favor of Polisario state, ending U.S. support for a Moroccan plan to establish autonomy for Western Sahara.
Published 12 July 2009
Published 02 July 2009
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See brilliant photos on the blog of the Norwegian peace corps participant Renate Rustand, who has just returned from a 3 month work as an English teacher in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria.
Published 18 June 2009
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Follow the plundering of occupied Western Sahara on www.twitter.com/wsrw.
Published 18 June 2009
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The Norwegian investor KLP has today announced that they have kicked out the Australian firm Incitec Pivot from its funds. The company imports phosphate rock from Western Sahara, which is occupied by Morocco. Norwatch, 2 June 2009.

Published 02 June 2009
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The Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara demanded in a letter on 19 March 2009 to the scientific journal Tectonophysics, that research done by a PhD student at the Norwegian Geological Survey should not be published. The geological research in occupied Western Sahara is done in cooperation with Moroccan oil authorities, but without the consent of the Sahrawi people.

Published 18 May 2009
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A research fellow attached to the Norwegian Geological Survey has been working on an oil research project in the occupied Western Sahara. The Support Committee requests that a scientific geological journal temporarily suspend further publication of her research data. The research institute is itself sceptical of the research project.

Published 18 May 2009
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This statement was adopted by South Trøndelag Labour Party during the annual meeting, 14 and 15 March 2009

Published 11 May 2009

The US lawfirm Covington & Burling helps Morocco in the illegal plunder of phosphates from occupied Western Sahara. The Sahrawi student Senia Bachir Abderahman is trying to get answers from the lawfirm as to how they can defend the plunder of her homeland.

Published 25 April 2009
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The National Union of Students in Norway (NSU), demands a stop to the oppression of Sahrawi students in a resolution from the 55th Landsting. The NSU counts close to 93.000 members and have been working for students rights since 1936.

Published 24 April 2009

The company Thor Offshore from the Faroe Islands participates in the plundering of occupied Western Sahara. The unethical business helps the Moroccan occupying power's illegal oil search in the territory, and contributes to strengthen the brutal occupation. News coverage in Faroese TV, Dagur & Vika, 26 January 2009

Published 05 April 2009

Student Peace Prize Ceremony, 2009, Olav Concert Hall, Trondheim, 27 February 2009.

Published 31 March 2009

Two Sahrawi girls were stopped on the street and harassed by Moroccan police Sunday. One was the rape victim from February, the other was the sister of Elkouria Amidane, Maimouna.

Published 24 March 2009