The Western Saharan activist ended her hunger strike on Thursday last, following Morocco’s agreement to allow her return to Laayoune, as I reported for the Sunday Tribune. See also earlier reports on Haidar’s hunger strike here and on the situation in Western Sahara, including an interview with Haidar, here.
Posts Tagged ‘Morocco’
Aminatou Haidar returns to Western Sahara
In Africa, Aid & development, International on December 21, 2009 at 12:22 pmAziza Brahim sings of Western Sahara
In Africa, Culture, International on November 1, 2009 at 3:41 pmRecently returned from the Western Saharan refugee camps in Algeria, where I was working with Donal Scannel on a documentary he’s making of the Sahrawi exile singer, Aziza Brahim. Here’s a glimpse of Aziza during some downtime on tour in Spain this summer.
World Report: tragedy off the Libyan coast
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum, International on April 7, 2009 at 2:33 pmListen to a World Report on the phenomenon of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, broadcast on April 4, 2009. Below is the original text of the report.
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Smile flashed me this week.
Let me clarify that. ‘Flash’ is African mobile phone slang for giving someone a missed call – letting them know you want them to call you, so you don’t spend your own credit.
So I called Smile back. He wanted to know if I’d heard about last Monday’s drowning of hundreds of migrants off the coast of Libya. He wanted me to write about it. Read the rest of this entry »
From Morocco: Thanks to Smile
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum, Travel on July 31, 2008 at 11:03 amA shorter version of this was broadcast on RTE Radio One’s World Report on July 26
The charity’s office was clean and bare, with two pcs humming on office desks, and some generic charts on the wall. The administrator was apologetic. The director had had to leave for an urgent meeting in the capital, and wasn’t there to meet me. He didn’t know when he’d be back.
I’ve travelled 12 hours across Morocco to meet him, I said. He was sorry, the administrator said. But there was nothing he could do.
Report from Morocco: Dying to get into Europe
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum on July 9, 2008 at 12:08 amPublished in the Sunday Tribune, June 8, 2008
“I struggled out of the water, into the rescue boat.
“After some minutes, they brought out my woman. She was already dead.
“Then, after some minutes, they brought out my baby. Dead too.”
Eric Onaginu paid a trafficker €2,600 to ferry himself, his wife, Pat, and their four year old daughter, Sandra, across the Mediterranean from the Moroccan port of Nador to the south coast of Spain.
