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AFP - Spain will grant refugee status to a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in the Canary Islands if Moroccan authorities reject her request for a new passport, the foreign ministry said Friday.
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"...
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...
Aminatou Haidar . . . hunger strike. Photo: Reuters NAIROBI: Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan...
Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan authorities on her arrival in the territory last Friday....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Timothy Garton Ash covers a broad canvas of post-1989 issues ( Comment , 5 November), but the key failure was to leave Mikhail Gorbachev without economic support at the crucial moment. In 1989, unlike in 1945, the west lacked a...
