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Western Sahara Resource Watch

The following overview enlists stock-exchange registered companies with current or recent operations in occupied Western Sahara. Updated 18 November 2024. Moroccan state oil company ONHYM in January 2018, it can be interpreted that Kosmos has left the door open to return to Western Sahara. In 2016, one of Kosmos Energy''s biggest owners,

Western Sahara Resource Watch

The petroleum products arriving in Western Sahara serve primarily to fuel vehicles, engines and vessels that take part in the illegal plunder of the territory, or are used for military purposes by the Moroccan army. The total quantity of oil transported into occupied Western Sahara during 2022 is estimated at 502,000 tonnes.

Western Sahara and Morocco: Complexities of Resistance and

The term Sahrawiis often used to mean "indigenous Western Saharan," although this equivalent is not accurate deed, it is sufficient on most accounts that an "ethnic" Sahrawi only has to claim descent from one of the recognized major or minor social groupings—"tribes" or "confederations"—in or overlapping the former Spanish Sahara.

2 An Unjust Transition: Energy, Colonialism and Extractivism

in Occupied Western Sahara Joanna Allan, Hamza Lakhal and Mahmoud Lemaadel The multiple ecological crises provoked by human activities are linked to and exacerbate the other political, social and economic challenges currently faced by North Africa.1 In Western Sahara, these challenges and crises are shaped by its continued condition as a colony.

Western Sahara Resource Watch

Western Sahara Resource Watch works to uncover the plunder of the territory and to keep companies and governments accountable for their support to the occupation. Morocco is still trying to find a company that will connect its illegal energy projects in occupied Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid. Published 04 November 2024. News archive

Kosmos Energy: On Hydrocarbon Exploration Offshore

development in Western Sahara. Following publication of the Joint Declaration, we want to take this opportunity to elaborate on Kosmos Energy''s activities offshore Western Sahara and outline the compelling case for resource exploration there. This Joint Declaration is the latest evidence of our commitment to the region. From the beginning of our

Western Sahara Resource Watch

Western Sahara Resource Watch works to uncover the plunder of the territory and to keep companies and governments accountable for their support to the occupation. Morocco is still trying to find a company that will connect its illegal energy projects in occupied Western Sahara to the Moroccan grid. Published 04 November 2024. News archive

Evidence of rift valley fever seroprevalence in the Sahrawi semi

Study area. The WS is located at 8°40''-17°06''W, 20°46''-27°40''N. Sahrawi, literally ''people from the desert'', is the name given to tribes of nomadic and pastoral people

Western Sahara Resource Watch

More than eight years have passed since Siemens first issued a press release regarding a contract for construction of energy infrastructure in occupied Western Sahara. The company then described the territory as "Southern Morocco".

Local developer ready to invest $4bn in green hydrogen and

5 天之前· The first 1.5GW phase of the Dakhla project, in the disputed Western Sahara territory, is targeting exports to Northern Europe. Emirati national energy company to invest $10bn

Western Sahara Resource Watch

Yet another "renewable" energy project is on the horizon in occupied Western Sahara. And it is gigantic. The new solar project is three times as big as the two solar plants so far constructed in Western Sahara, combined. The information about the new 350 MW solar plant in Boujdour appears on the website of Morocco''s Ministry for Energy

Western Sahara: Licences change hands | African Energy

International oil companies continue to manoeuvre ahead of the controversial start of drilling in Moroccan-licensed acreage offshore the disputed Western Sahara – a development that is hotly contested by the Polisario Front independence movement and its supporters. Amid speculation that more Morocco players might joint Kosmos Energy and

Western Sahara Resource Watch

Timeline - Kosmos/Cairn in occupied Western Sahara . 29 October 2004. Kosmos Energy partners with Kerr-McGee for the ''Boujdour block'', with a 30% share. 7 November 2005. Kosmos Energy first states that it plans to drill off the coast of Western Sahara. 2006. Kerr-McGee leaves Western Sahara. Kosmos Energy signs an agreement for the

Dakhla, Western Sahara

Dakhla (Arabic: الداخلة, lit. ''The Peninsula'', Hassaniyya: [ˌəd.daːχlə] ⓘ) is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, [2] currently occupied by Morocco. [3] [4] It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab has a population of 106,277 [1] and is on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast, the Río de Oro Peninsula, about 550

Geopolitics in North Africa

North Africa is inextricably linked with the broader Middle East through language, religion, and history. The Arab Gulf states (particularly Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)) have taken a strong interest in North Africa over the past few decades, using financial assistance, private sector investment, and trade as a way to influence

Morocco to double renewable energy output in Western Sahara

A Moroccan energy ministry official revealed plans this week to build 1.4 gigawatts of new wind and solar power in the disputed region of Western Sahara by 2027, according to Bloomberg. This initiative will nearly double the area''s current renewable energy capacity. Additionally, a 3-gigawatt power cable project

Støttekomiteen for Vest-Sahara

Then we were ordered to leave Western Sahara. Now we''re in an escort heading to Agadir," says Heltne. They had traveled to occupied Western Sahara to learn more about Morocco''s controversial renewable energy projects in the territory. Western Sahara is considered by the UN as the last unresolved colonial issue on the African continent.

Morocco: Another renewable energy project in

Morocco drives renewable energy projects in Western Sahara. Morocco has claimed authority over Western Sahara since 1975, but the UN does not recognise Moroccan control, calling Western Sahara a "non-self-governing

Western Sahara: Morocco''s $2.1 Billion Green Power Expansion to

" Morocco to Double West Sahara Green Power Output for World Cup", 16 October 2024 The government has set a 2027 deadline to build 1.4 gigawatts of new wind and solar capacity in the region... The projects are likely to cost about 21 billion dirhams ($2.1 billion) and will be led by local and foreign private investors, according to the official...

Western Sahara | AFREC

Electricity in Western Sahara is mainly produced from fossil thermals. Biomass still dominated the share of total final consumption at 74% followed by oil at 26%. Skip to main content Energy use in Guinea-Bissau is roughly 0.3 toe per person per year, and is one of the world''s lowest. The biomass represents over 95% of the total energy

Western Sahara

"Western Sahara" published on by null. Introduction. Western Sahara is the only non-self-governing territory on the African continent still awaiting the completion of its process of decolonization and, as such, it has been listed by the committee established for the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and

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