Yearly Archives: 2008

Free Western Sahara, writes Emhamed Khadad in Wall Street Journal

Opinion, By EMHAMED KHADAD
April 17, 2008
In the coming days, the United Nations is scheduled to debate the fate of Africa’s last colony. Since it was illegally invaded by Moroccan troops in 1975, Western Sahara and its indigenous people known as the Sahrawis have been fighting the torpid responses of the global community and the aggressive policies of the Moroccan monarchy. Western Sahara must be brought out of the margins and into the light.,
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Report on visit to occupied territories by international trade union delegation

An international trade union delegation visited the occupied territories in Western Sahara from 17 to 22 February 2008.
The visit was undertaken to meet a commitment taken on during the trade union meeting in support of the Saharawi People held in October 2005. A delegation from CCOO in Spain, the Italian CGIL and the French CGT, comprised Juan Ortega and Victoria Montero, Leopold Tartaglia and Jean Jacques Guigon.
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Kicking Western Saharan sand in Nicolas Sarkozy’s face

By Emhamed Khadad
France’s clamour for an EU-Mediterranean trade partnership ignores Morocco’s illegal annexation of a neighbour, writes a leader of Polisario.
On the face of it, French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s vision of a Europe-Mediterranean trade body makes perfect sense – most obviously for the EU. EU exports already account for a major share of overall economic activity in the Maghreb. An economically developed region would open up a market of 75 million-plus consumers. A common market would also unlock the barriers to intra-Maghreb trade, which remains a trickle.
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Polisario representative, Kamal Fadel, talks to Radio New Internationalist

Radio New Internationalist
Kamal Fadel, Polisario representative in Australia, recently contributed to a Radio New Internationalist program which is on-line. Just go to http://www.newint.org/  and then click on ‘Radio’ on the contents bar at the top of the page. The program is entitled ‘Not so supermarkets’. A summary of the program is attached.
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NRC Report on Western Sahara: “Occupied Country, Displaced People”

Oslo, Norway, 28 April 2008
In the new issue of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Thematic Reports, the focus is on the conflict in Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony. While the Sahrawis, the original population of the country, suffer oppression and displacement, the international community has chosen to look the other way.
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“Fertiliser firms selling out refugees”; Australian Financial Review, 25/03/08

“The next mouthful of food you take after you read this may have an awful aftertaste. That’s not necessarily because there’s anything wrong with your food, but because of how it gets to your plate.” Opinion in The Australian Financial Review, by Polisario’s Australia representative, Mr. Kamal Fadel, 25 March 2008
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