Fresh images: Key Bay inside the port
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Photos and video shows Key Bay inside the port of El Aaiun in occupied Western Sahara, loading fish oil.

Published 07 January 2017

The photos below were taken at 7 January 2017 inside the closed port of El Aaiun. All images taken by the local natural resource observation group AMRPENWS. 

WSRW wrote yesterday afternoon that the vessel Key Bay is about to load fish oil in the territory, most probably for transport into France. 

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