Sit-in against the plunder
As the Moroccan authorities prohibit Saharawi from leaving the towns in order to prevent them from building protest camps in the desert, these five protesters have started a peaceful sit-in in front of their home on 7 July 2011. They call for the right to benefit from their homeland's abundant natural resources.
Published 09 July 2011
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A young Saharawi tea merchant has today died after having set himself on fire three days ago. His self-immolation was reportedly in protest of Morocco's economic restrictions imposed on Saharawis living under the yoke of Morocco's occupation of their homeland.
04 February 2019
Morocco grants only 5% of fishing licences off Dakhla to Saharawis
New documentation shows that only 4 out of 75 purse seiners that the Moroccan government have licenced to fish on the pelagic stocks off Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara, are controlled by Saharawis.
27 July 2018
Unemployed Saharawis set up protest camp in occupied Western Sahara
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26 April 2017
Unemployed Saharawi youth hi-jacked OCP bus
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28 March 2017