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August 6th, 2008

Arabeyes: Mauritanian President Ousted in Military Coup d'état

Jillian York · 22:51

lingua → es · sw

Army commanders ousted Mauritania's first freely elected president in two decades, President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, in a military coup d'état Wednesday after political feuding over the firing of the country's four top generals. Jillian York sums up the reactions of bloggers in neighbouring Arab countries. 6 comments · »»

Western Sahara: A Tribute to a Hero

Jillian York · 16:49

lingua → pt · es

Occidental - Sada Assahra al -Gharbiya [ar] has posted a poem entitled “Another Poem from the Occupied Territory: My Hero!” 12 comments · »»

August 5th, 2008

Western Sahara: Three Cups of Tea

Renata Avila · 02:19

lingua → bn · jp · es · zht · zhs · it · fr

As with many cultures, people in Western Sahara have developed rites and a social scene around tea and we can imagine the desert, a cloudless sky at night, a full moon and a cup of tea (or two, or three)! Renata Avila makes us do just that in this translation of Spanish Sahrawi blogs. 9 comments · »»

July 25th, 2008

Western Sahara: Introducing the Sahrawi Blogosphere

Jillian York · 14:30

lingua → fr

On July 5, Global Voices started its coverage of the Sahrawi blogosphere. Jillian York looks at Sahrawi blogs in English this week. 6 comments · »»

July 14th, 2008

Western Sahara: Poetry and Spanish - The Permanent Links

Renata Avila · 19:26

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For some cultures, it is food, for others it is music, and many cultures show their character in their architecture. For Western Sahara, one of their cultural characteristics is the oral tradition, and poetry is meaningful for Sahrawis. 33 comments · »»

July 5th, 2008

Western Sahara: A new Sahrawi satellite TV station

Yazan Badran · 20:46

lingua → ar · mk · pt · it · zht · zhs · es

This will be our first attempt to cover the Sahrawi blogsphere. I, alongside Jillian York and Renata Avila will try to shed light on what the Sahrawi bloggers are saying each week, in Arabic, English and Spanish. The topic of Western Sahara is one of a very complex background, and emotions tend to run high whenever it is under discussion. We will try to cover the Sahrawi side with as much objectivity as it is humanly possible. 98 comments · »»

Links about Western Sahara

August 28th, 2008

Western Sahara Info reports that the mandate of Peter Van Walsum, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general for Western Sahara, has not been renewed.

July 30th, 2008

Saharawi-Students provides an update about the trial of Maliha Eljahoub, a Saharawi law student and human rights activist arrested for “criminal charges” in Agadir on July 24. Eljahoub's trial is scheduled for August 13 in Marrakesh. He is currently on temporary release.