Governance

On Monday, February 11, 2013 at the Brookings Institution, outgoing Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, presented an outline of the Obama Administration's policy position on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Hugo Chávez won’t go. Class conflict-ridden history shall not allow Chávez to go. He is part of history, part of people struggling against dispossession, exploitation and poverty, part of people struggling for democracy and dignity.

His Excellence Kim Sook, President
United Nations Security Council
335 East 45th Street
New York 10017

February 19, 2013

Dear President Kim

In recent years Mohammed El Baykam has been helping his people to fight for their economic and political rights, mainly in the fishing sector that is controlled by the occupying state of Morocco. Dakhla city is considered to produce 64 percent of Morocco’s fishing output.

TRYING TO PLAN MY FUTURE AS A REFUGEE

I have a friend who tells me there is a website that focuses on problems in Africa and that this organisation wants to publish about the Sahara situation. She asked me to write something for this publication.

We set off in a late afternoon to the other side of the river opening to the Atlantic sea. We knew that the water had gotten a little warmer and that it was a sign for a good fishing night.

One day I asked myself, what had impacted me the most as a person. The answer is both simple and heartbreaking. The answer is my journey to get a good education. This journey has made me sacrifice the most precious things in my life; my family, friends and culture.

November 8, 2012 marked the second anniversary of the brutal dismantling of Gdaim Izik camp.

Time and time again Morocco has the farcical ability to make extraordinarily maladroit decisions when it comes to its most sensitive issue, its illegal military occupation of Western Sahara.