Western Sahara Resource Watch

Polisario asks for annulment of EU-Morocco illegal fish pact

The EU's scandalous fisheries agreement - whereby the EU is to pay Morocco to fish in Western Sahara waters which are under its occupation - has been taken to European Court of Justice. Polisario asks for the annulment of the accord, according to the Official Journal of the European Union.

Published 22 June 2014

New report: Fuelling the occupation

The Swedish company Wisby Tankers AB is leading in a controversial trade: supplying occupied Western Sahara with petroleum products. New WSRW report today.

Published 20 June 2014

Here is Kosmos Energy's supply vessel

At the Spanish government owned harbour of Las Palmas today, Geo Service 1 is bunkering supplies for the illegal Moroccan oil studies offshore occupied Western Sahara. The studies take place not too far away from Spanish waters.

Published 17 June 2014

Alouat protested against Kosmos - was cut with razor blade

The director of a handicap institution in Western Sahara was attacked by police as he went out to the street with this poster.

Published 13 June 2014

WSRW report gives complete overview of controversial clients

WSRW launches today, for the first time, a complete report listing all the clients, volumes, values and shipments relating to Morocco's exports of phosphate rock from occupied territory.

Published 12 June 2014

Correspondence with New Zealand's Ravensdown

The New Zealand does not wish to clarify its trade relations with occupied Western Sahara, nor to explain what it has done to seek the consent of the people of the territory.

Published 04 June 2014

Kosmos started final round oil exploration off Western Sahara

A subsidary of the Chinese national oil company CNPC this month started a new study offshore occupied Western Sahara on behalf of Kosmos Energy. "Severely undermining the UN peace efforts for the occupied territory", stated WSRW, condemning the operation.

Published 30 May 2014

Saharawi Republic adopts mining code

The Saharawi parliament adopted on 26 May 2014 the first Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mining Code.

Published 29 May 2014

Ballance Agri-Nutrients' letter to WSRW, 6 May 2014

Published 16 May 2014

More Norwegian equipment on rig to occupied Western Sahara

The oil rig that this autumn will destroy the future of the Sahrawi population is not just equipped with components made by Norwegian company Aker Solutions. The rig is filled to the brim with equipment from National Oilwell Varco’s Norwegian plants – at a threefold greater value.

Published 12 May 2014

Sharks still under threat in occupied Western Sahara

Pictures taken in Boujdour harbour, occupied Western Sahara, demonstrate that vulnerable shark species are still being caught by the Moroccan fleet in the territory - in spite of international rules and regulations calling for their protection.

Published 30 April 2014

UN Security Council ignores the plunder

Yesterday's Security Council's resolution extending the mandate of the UN mission in Western Sahara remains silent on Morocco's plunder of Western Sahara's natural resources, though the matter was treated in Ban Ki-Moon's report to the Council.

Published 30 April 2014

Kosmos to WSRW: We're not doing anything wrong

We beg to differ.

Published 24 April 2014

Member of WSRW detained by Moroccan police in occupied Western Sahara

Joanna Allan (UK) and Kristina Nygaard (USA) were detained yesterday, 19 April, by the Moroccan police at a checkpoint in El Aaiun, occupied Western Sahara. Joanna Allan is a board member of WSRW.

Published 20 April 2014

Clear message from Saharawis: Kosmos, leave Western Sahara!

Yesterday evening, dozens of Saharawis gathered in Zaragoza, Spain, to protest against Kosmos Energy - the American oil company that has announced it will commence to drill for oil in occupied Western Sahara later this year.

Published 20 April 2014

Letter from Elfayda to Kosmos Energy

"Dear chairman of Kosmos Energy. Today I tried to film a friend holding a banner objecting to your company’s activities in my occupied country, Western Sahara. The Moroccan police responded by hitting me. Here you see how my eye looked like afterwards. How should we protest against your presence in our country?", asked 18 year old Elfayda Khayya from Boujdour in a letter to the chairman of Kosmos today.

Published 15 April 2014

Ban warns against unfair exploitation of Saharawi resources

As Morocco is about to undertake oil exploration offshore occupied Western Sahara, the UN Secretary-General comments in his report to the UN Security Council the obligations under international law.

Published 11 April 2014

WSRW calls on Security Council to speak out on Kosmos oil hunt

WSRW has appealed to the members of the UN Security Council to support UN monitoring of human rights and natural resources exploitation in occupied Western Sahara.

Published 10 April 2014

Saharawis marching against Kosmos Energy in occupied Sahara

Saharawis demonstrated 26 February against Kosmos Energy's oil plans in occupied Western Sahara. Find high resolution images here.

Published 29 March 2014

Saharawis continue to protest Kosmos' oil plans in Western Sahara

The people of Western Sahara continue to speak out against US oil firm Kosmos Energy's plans to drill in their occupied homeland in October 2014.

Published 20 March 2014