We research and campaign the companies and governments that work for Moroccan interests in occupied Western Sahara.
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We are Western Sahara Resource Watch. We research and campaign companies & governments that work for Moroccan interests in #WesternSahara.
We believe the occupation will not stop as long as Morocco is allowed to profit from it.
Thank you for supporting our work. 🇪🇭
🚨 Ireland’s ad watchdog (@ASA_Ireland) concludes that @Ryanair's marketing of #Dakhla as "Moroccan" is likely to mislead consumers, noting that #WesternSahara is not part of Morocco.
Full story: wsrw.org/en/news/irish-ad-wa…
#Ryanair #HumanRights
We’re almost halfway to our €500 goal to map agricultural expansion in occupied #WesternSahara using satellite imagery! 🚀
With a new EU-Morocco trade deal looming, this research is urgent. Help us uncover the facts.
🎯 Donate now to support the study: wsrw.org/en/support-us
In 2010, thousands of Saharawis gathered at Gdeim Izik to protest marginalisation and demand social and economic rights. Those imprisoned after the camp’s dismantling are now on hunger strike - despite a UN call for their immediate release.
wsrw.org/en/news/gdeim-izik-…
#WesternSahara
Help us map injustice from space! 🍅🛰️
With your support, we’ll use satellite imagery to track expanding agricultural plantations in occupied #WesternSahara. Our data has shaped EU court cases before - now we need to update it.
Support the study: wsrw.org/en/support-us
Whistleblower testimony inside this powerful @amnesty report lays bare #Morocco’s vast surveillance apparatus.
To understand how the regime enforces its grip and crushes dissent in occupied #WesternSahara, we must understand the machinery exposed here.
🚨 In a new @amnesty report, an ex-security agent exposes how Morocco’s surveillance system works, explaining how journalists & activists are targeted in operations designed to instill fear & ultimately silence & stop them from doing their work.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
Imprisoned #Saharawi defender Naâma Asfari & 8 others resumed hunger strikes.
He was jailed after the 2010 Gdeim Izik camp, a peaceful protest for socio-economic rights & resource control in #WesternSahara which Morocco violently dismantled.
We stand with the Gdeim Izik group.
Relatives of Sahrawi defender Naâma Asfari reported that he has resumed his hunger strike, as of 23 September, despite attempts by Moroccan authorities to force him to end it, and that he has been transferred to a Marrakesh prison.
🔗: ishr.ch/latest-updates/sahra…
One of the world's most militarised borders remains virtually invisible to the global community.
#Morocco's 2,700km wall in #WesternSahara has spent decades fracturing #Saharawi families, disrupting traditional lifestyles, and creating severe ecological damage.
A 2,700km wall cuts across Western Sahara. Why was it built, and what impact does it still have on people and the land?
theconversation.com/moroccos…
💻 Joana Castro Pereira and Simón Pardo de Donlebún Versaci, @UPorto
#Politics
Sharp analysis of how #Morocco sold out #Palestine to cement its illegal occupation of #WesternSahara.
A must-read.
The Moroccan Betrayal: How Rabat Sold Palestine to Buy the Sahara — and Planted an Israeli Base at Africa’s Door
by Laala Bechetoula
countercurrents.org/2026/09/…
The article examines Morocco’s normalization of relations with Israel in December 2020 and the accompanying US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty claims over Western Sahara. It traces the subsequent expansion of military and intelligence cooperation, including Israeli drones, air-defence systems, surveillance technology and a 2026 joint military work plan. The author argues that this partnership is closely connected to tensions with Algeria, which has maintained diplomatic ties with neither Morocco nor Israel and has strongly supported Palestine. The article also places the Morocco-Israel relationship within wider geopolitical developments in North Africa and the Sahel, and examines its implications for Palestinian and Sahrawi self-determination.
🔴 Morocco’s royal business network is deepening its involvement in occupied #WesternSahara.
CMS has signed a new deal for high-voltage equipment for a project in Boujdour.
Read more: wsrw.org/en/news/another-com…
This UN vehicle was photographed in El Aaiún, occupied #WesternSahara.
Ahead of @antonioguterres' report, WSRW urges the @UN: don’t let resource exploitation become irreversible - or decide the Territory’s future before self-determination.
wsrw.org/en/news/dont-let-re…
@SCRtweets
This article looks at the nexus between #Morocco’s political power, military elites and privileged access to resources in occupied #WesternSahara.
Fascinating read: escudodigital.com/en/latest-…
On #WorldHumanitarianDay, @WFP warns funding gaps could break the food pipeline to #Saharawi refugees by September.
They need immediate support - and a just solution respecting self-determination.
5 decades of exile is enough. #WesternSahara
reliefweb.int/report/algeria…
On #WorldHumanitarianDay, we honour support for the #Saharawi refugees.
Yet, governments that fund aid to them often also support trade involving resources from occupied #WesternSahara. Humanitarian assistance should not go hand in hand with policies that sustain occupation.
A remarkable piece of on-the-ground reporting from #WesternSahara.
From the #Trump-named highway to the voices of Saharawis living under #Morocco's occupation and the journalists’ own experience of surveillance - this is well worth reading.
We drove the new ‘Donald J Trump’ highway into Western Sahara — here’s my read on what we saw, and didn’t see, in a disputed territory where journalists are rarely allowed. Gift link telegraph.co.uk/gift/ca18617…
Always good to see independent journalism connecting the dots between #Morocco’s occupation of #WesternSahara, its resource plunder and the interests that sustain it.
Thanks to @TheCradleMedia for referencing our work and bringing these issues to a wider audience.
His Majesty's plunder: The royal machine behind the Trump Highway and Western Sahara's phosphate wealth
Trump’s Western Sahara highway exposes the political and economic interests linking Morocco, Israel, and the US.
thecradle.co/articles-id/391…
🔴 Renewable energy should support a just transition - not entrench an occupation.
Evidence suggests Morocco has completed Aftissat 3 & 4 in occupied #WesternSahara, expanding the wind complex to 550 MW.
Read more: wsrw.org/en/news/occupied-we…
🔴 The Trump administration has become the first US government to finance a private-sector project in occupied #WesternSahara.
@USTDA has awarded funds to the controversial #ORNX #greenammonia project, involving US, Spanish & German companies.
Read more: wsrw.org/en/news/trump-admin…
Western Sahara Resource Watch retweeted
#ChristopherNolan filmed #TheOdyssey -today in cinemas- in Dakhla, a city in #WesternSahara illegally occupied by #Morocco. Why shouldn't you watch it? A Sahrawi filmmaker explains in @democracynow.
democracynow.org/2026/7/17/t…
#BoycottTheOdyssey
Western Sahara Resource Watch retweeted
Sumar, the left-wing party allied with ##Spain's Socialists in the governing coalition, is demanding that Spain's Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, revoke the medal awarded to Abdellatif Hammouchi, head of Morocco's DGST. Hammouchi is widely regarded as the architect of #Morocco's use of the #Pegasus spyware for surveillance.
@elconfidencial @interiorgob @guardiacivil @EMADmde @Defensagob @policia @sumar
@PODEMOS @teshsidi @IzquierdaUnida
@MasMadrid__ @Congreso_Es @ppopular @PSOE elconfidencial.com/espana/20…
🔴 Morocco has opened another 1,090 hectares of occupied #WesternSahara to agriculture through @ENGIEgroup's desalination project. The expansion comes as the EU seeks a new framework for trade with Morocco covering products from the occupied territory.
wsrw.org/en/news/engie-paves…
