Saharawi beaten for protesting the plunder

The Moroccan authorities don't accept criticism of their ongoing plunder of Saharawi natural resources light-heartedly. El-Aaiún-resident Ali Saadouni was earlier this month brutally beaten by the Moroccan police for speaking out on the Saharawi’s poor living conditions in a resource-rich homeland.

Published 16 May 2011

Deadly self-immolation in protest of exclusion of Saharawis

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

“We have no other choice than to set up a second Gdeim Izik protest camp”, disenfranchised Saharawi protesters say.
26 April 2017

Unemployed Saharawi youth hi-jacked OCP bus

Last week, a group of around 60 unemployed Saharawis hi-jacked a bus from Phosboucraa, to voice their protest against the Moroccan-owned company's exploitation of occupied Western Sahara's phosphate mine.

28 March 2017