Western Sahara

W.Sahara activist refuses Madrid offer of refugee status (AFP)

AFP/File – Award-winning Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar gives a press conference in Arrecife airport on … MADRID (AFP) – Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar has declined an offer by Madrid to grant her refugee...

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Western Sahara's 'Gandhi' begins hunger strike

Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities. Aminatou Haidar, who is viewed by her...

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Zimbabwe: Respect Our Foreign Policy

opinion Harare — THERE is a saying that goes, "Show me your friends and I will tell who you are". This could best surmise Morgan Tsvangirai's insistence against all decency to fly to Morocco today -- for the second time in...

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Remembering the Western Sahara

Only very occasionally does the media cover anything about the Western Sahara, the last unresolved colonial issue in Africa. I wrote about the situation in a very early entry in my long-running series called "Forgotten World"...

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Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Lanzarote

Aminatou Haidar, campaigner for indigenous Sahrawi rights, expelled over refusal to accept Moroccan nationality Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being...

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Rwandan runner wins Laayoune international half-marathon

Rwanda's Dieudonne Disi won the 11th International Half-Marathon of Laayoune on Sunday (November 15th), MAP reported. Kenyan Pamela Lizouring won the women's title, while host country Morocco's Asahsah Malika came in second. We...

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Jailed West Saharan activist wins Swedish prize

Stockholm - The sister of jailed Western Saharan activist Brahim Dahane on Monday accepted a Swedish human rights prize on his behalf at a ceremony in Stockholm. Brahim Dahane, was awarded the Per Anger Prize, a human rights...

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Passport seizure traps Western Sahara activist in Spain

16/11/2009Passport seizure traps Western Sahara activist in Spain An award-winning Western Sahara rights activist expelled to Spain's Canary Islands cannot go home as Moroccan authorities have taken her passport away, the...

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Kennedy Center Condemns Morocco's Detention of Human Rights Defender

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights (RFK Center) strongly condemns the detention of 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, Aminatou Haidar, by Moroccan authorities today upon her arrival at the...

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Nov. 13, 1460: Death Stills Henry the Navigator

1460: Infante Henrique (Prince Henry), known to history as Henry the Navigator, dies at 66 in Sagres, Portugal. While not a seafaring man himself, Henry’s zealous advocacy and generous patronage of science, cartography and...

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