Morocco hit by huge protests against neoliberalism after death of fish seller
In Morocco, thousands of people have been protesting across the country after a fish seller was crushed to death in a garbage truck on October 28 while trying to retrieve fish confiscated by...
View ArticleEuropean companies help Morocco control Western Sahara
Morocco is eagerly promoting its green credentials in its hosting of the November 7–18 United Nations COP22 climate change conference in Marrakesh. But a new report discloses that the North African...
View ArticleAmid new climate records, environmentalists warn COP22 failing
The World Meteorological Organisation has warned that 2016 was set to be the hottest year on record by a significant margin livescience.com said.WMO scientists told diplomats gathered in Marrakech,...
View ArticleUnder glare of COP22, Moroccans take to streets
Moroccan protesters have taken to the streets in recent days, taking advantage of the global spotlight provided by the November 7-18 United Nations COP22 climate talks in Marrakech. Mouhcine Fikri...
View ArticleAfter COP22, let’s not follow the Kyoto road again
Proceedings in the latest in the United Nations’ ongoing conferences on Climate Change — the November 7–18 COP22 that just concluded in Marrakech, Morocco — were disturbed by the news of the US...
View ArticleAfrica's last colony: Morocco's monarchy pursues neoliberal policies in...
Braodcasting from the November 7-18 United Nations climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, Democracy Now! reported on an issue that is largely ignored: Morocco’s 41-year occupation of the Western Sahara,...
View ArticleObituary: Sidi Ahmed Eddia Moussa — 1948–2017
Sidi Ahmed Eddia, secretary-general of the Confederated Union of Saharawi Workers (CSTS) was born in El Aaiun in 1948 and died there on January 3, aged 68.He was well known for his activism, not only...
View ArticleMorocco’s growing protest movement finds solidarity across Africa
Twenty civil society groups from across Africa have released the statement below in support of protests in Morocco and other North African countries against growing state repression, resource theft and...
View ArticleMorocco: The Rif protest movement spreads
Popular mobilisation in the Rif region in Morocco’s north have continued and spread to several of the North African country’s towns, despite repression by security forces and the regime's attempts to...
View ArticleFood sovereignty not ‘free trade’
The Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions (ATTAC) is an international movement for social, environmental and democratic alternatives that organises against free trade policies that...
View ArticleOccupied Western Sahara: A rare look inside Africa's last colony
In an exclusive broadcast, US-based independent news outlet Democracy Now! broke the media blockade and visited the occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long...
View ArticleMorocco and Israel agree to normalise a sordid relationship
Morocco has become the fourth Arab nation to normalise relations with the state of Israel. Previously clandestine, Morocco’s cooperation with the Israeli government stretches back decades, writes Rupen...
View ArticleThe Ceuta ‘invasion’: Exploiting young Moroccans desperate for a future
Moroccan authorities have set in motion a wave of migration to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta to punish it for providing hospital care to leaders of the Polisario Front, writes Dick Nichols.
View ArticleWestern Sahara activist: Our resources are being stolen in broad daylight.
Western Sahara is the last territory in Africa recognised by the United Nations as non-self-governing. Spanish colonial occupation was ended in 1975 by the struggle of the Polisario Front. However,...
View ArticleWestern Saharans condemn EU-Morocco fisheries deal
Human rights conditions in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara remain dire according to activists, even though the territory is once again open for business to European fishing companies. Despite Moroccan...
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