A 500 MW hyperscale data center for Artificial Intelligence is being envisaged in the occupied territory. 

 A company from the UAE is set to develop a new controversial wind farm in occupied Western Sahara later this year.

The last remaining importer of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara in Australia has announced that it will no longer purchase the conflict mineral.

The firm announces it will render its services to a project that raises deep concerns over international law and human rights.

Eight UN rapporteurs call on Morocco to stop tearing down Saharawi property as the Kingdom expands green energy projects in occupied Western Sahara. 

The massive ports that Morocco is constructing in occupied Western Sahara are made with cement of the German multinational. 

Allianz congratulated the Moroccan people with what was one of the gravest violations of International law since the second world war.   

Three months have passed since the EU Court of Justice banned EU-Morocco trade deals in occupied Western Sahara. The EU Commission is still in the dark on how to take it from here. 

At a time when the French government is ignoring all international law in Western Sahara, it places its own companies in serious risk, WSRW warns. 

… in just one year, and under the EU-Morocco trade agreement alone.

Days after the ECJ ruling, Morocco is still trying to find a company that will connect its illegal energy projects in occupied Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid.

What should we expect from the EU institutions, the member states and the businesses now as David beat Goliath in the EU Court of Justice? WSRW has carved out some suggested steps. 

After undertaking work for the Moroccan state phosphate company in Western Sahara, the Danish consultancy giant COWI states that it “will not engage in further projects" in the occupied territory.

At the company’s Annual General Meeting on 26 February 2024, Siemens Energy’s board could not rule out any further projects in occupied Western Sahara. 

WSRW has never received a response that politically propagated the occupation to the degree as the one received from a French campaigner for Morocco on behalf of renewable energy company HDF Energy. 

Saharawi civil society voices concern over Morocco's gigaplans for renewable energy in occupied Western Sahara during COP28 climate summit and to UN special rapporteur. 

Companies that want to be perceived as taking human rights responsibly, should not bid on a large tender that will connect Morocco's illegal energy production in Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid, WSRW warns.

Morocco must immediately release a group of leading human rights defenders, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demands.  

Throughout its impact studies, relations with the Moroccan government and partners, and a recent announcement of arrival of windmills to occupied Western Sahara, Engie has shown a total disregard for the UN's approach to the conflict.

The Swedish truck company Scania, part of Volkswagen, offers services in occupied Western Sahara.