Western Sahara Resource Watch

World's largest wealth fund drops Cairn and Kosmos over Western Sahara

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has today announced it has excluded Kosmos Energy and Cairn Energy from its portfolios because of their oil search in Western Sahara. Approx. 54 million dollars of shares were sold.

Published 28 June 2016

WSRW demands Polish state oil company to leave Western Sahara

WSRW lauches today a report on the Polish oil company PGNiG, and demands it to abandon its project. WSRW asks its owners to intervene.

Published 28 June 2016

Wave of divestments over Western Sahara

In recent months, several investment firms have relinquished their interests in companies that are involved in the natural resource exploitation of occupied Western Sahara. Here are 21 of them.

Published 27 June 2016

Moroccan group to intervene in EU Court case about occupied Sahara

A Moroccan umbrella association that claims the EU Court of Justice has never suspended the Western Sahara trade, is now to intervene in the EU Court to support the annulment of the suspension (which the association never believed occurred in the first place). Confused? We are too.

Published 24 June 2016

Check out Cairn Energy's geography failures

Cairn Energy consistently includes occupied Western Sahara as part of Morocco.

Published 23 June 2016

Confirmed: these 5 countries intervene against Saharawis at EU Court

The EU Court has now officially confirmed that five EU Member States will intervene in favour of Morocco in the proceedings to reverse the Court’s decision to halt imports from occupied Western Sahara through a trade deal with Morocco.

Published 22 June 2016

Controversial Polish oil search stopped due to strike

When over 100 of the locally recruited staff stopped working, the Polish oil hunt in occupied Western Sahara had to temporarily close.

Published 22 June 2016

Total officially states it has left Western Sahara

"The contract was not extended in December 2015", company writes on website. It has also confirmed that it has "no plans" to return to the territory, which lies in the part of Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation.

Published 21 June 2016

Danish shipping company Ultrabulk caught red handed

The day after Danish parliament urged all companies to stay away from occupied Western Sahara, a Danish vessel arrived Canada with phosphates rock taken from the territory.

Published 19 June 2016

Russia signs new fisheries deal for occupied Western Sahara

The Russian and Moroccan governments on 15 March 2016 announced the renewing of their fisheries agreement, allowing Russian trawlers fish in occupied Western Sahara. WSRW has translated the agreement from Russian to English.

Published 13 June 2016

EU Member States to intervene against Western Sahara in EU Court

A handful of EU Member States will intervene in the European Court proceedings in favour of Morocco, asking the Court to reverse its decision to cancel the EU-Morocco trade deal in occupied Western Sahara.

Published 09 June 2016

Polish company undertakes seismic studies in occupied Western Sahara

The Polish seismic services company Geofizyka Kraków ignored warnings and started seismic studies for oil exploration in occupied territory.

Published 09 June 2016

EU Commission alters Morocco fish deal subject to Court proceedings

Is it appropriate for the European Commission to change an agreement that is under judicial review?

Published 08 June 2016

Paradeep: new client of Sahara conflict phosphates?

It rarely happens that vessels transport phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara to India. However, an 8 million dollar consignment is at present being offloaded in port of Paradip.

Published 03 June 2016

PotashCorp ignores its owners, buys massive cargo from Western Sahara

Only three weeks after nearly a third of its shareholders had requested a human rights review of its imports from occupied Western Sahara, the Canadian fertilizer firm PotashCorp is expecting a giant shipment of phosphate rock from the occupied territory.

Published 03 June 2016

Don’t trade with Western Sahara, says Danish parliament

Thursday the Danish parliament unanimously passed a motion on Western Sahara that urges Danish companies and the Danish public sector not to trade with Africa’s last colony.

Published 02 June 2016

Trawler in occupied Western Sahara involved in massive discards

Yet again, a fishing vessel managed by a Moroccan ex-general is dumping tonnes of fish in occupied Western Sahara. New video reveals the environmental mismanagement.

Published 07 May 2016

PotashCorp shareholders request human rights review in Western Sahara

Two institutional shareholders of PotashCorp are presenting a proposal before next week's annual meeting of the company. PotashCorp is the world's largest importer of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara.

Published 05 May 2016

Ban Ki-Moon report deletes UN findings on Saharawi poverty

After consultation with Morocco, the document that Ban Ki-Moon was drafting has been stripped of all references to UN reports highlighting Saharawi marginalisation.

Published 28 April 2016

EU unable to honor judgment from Court of Justice?

The Netherlands, which is against the inclusion of Western Sahara products in EU-Moroccan trade, seems unable to respect the decision from the Court of Justice from December 2015.

Published 28 April 2016