• International symposium : WATER in West Saharan region – 2,3,4 may – Nouakchott
    19 March 2018 Comments Off on International symposium : WATER in West Saharan region – 2,3,4 may – Nouakchott

    International symposium-Tribute to Pierre Bonte: "Water in Mauritania and the West Saharan region : Representations, uses and governance of a shared resource" Organizing Committee: Ahmed Maouloud Eida El-Hilal (UNA-LERHI), Sebastien Boulay (Paris Descartes-Sorbonne University, CEPED), Mohamed Ould Sheikh Sid Ahmed (Saire gal Faculty of Letters and SH, UNA), Michelle Coste and Danièle Cavanna (CEPED), Rachel...

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  • Online Questionnaire on Water in Western Sahara – Until April 15th
    14 March 2018 Comments Off on Online Questionnaire on Water in Western Sahara – Until April 15th

    Hello everyone, My name is Justine Launay, I am a student in Master 2 in Conflictuality and Mediation at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers (France). I write a master dissertation on water management in Western Sahara with the help of the OUISO Observatory. In this context I have to carry out surveys in...

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  • Film screening, “Leyuad”, sahrawi poetry, March 12, 18h, INALCO, Paris
    24 February 2018 Comments Off on Film screening, “Leyuad”, sahrawi poetry, March 12, 18h, INALCO, Paris

    On the occasion of the publication of the Rites de la tente (ed. Atelier du Tilde), of the Saharawi poet Limam Boicha, And as part of the “Spring of Poets” Festival 2018, AFRINALCO and OUISO organize: A film screening and debate around the movie “Leyuad, journey to the source of verses” Synopsis: An initiatory and poetic…

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  • New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha
    16 February 2018 Comments Off on New publication : Les rites de la tente – Limam Boicha

    Originally from Western Sahara, the writer and poet Limam Boicha invites us to take a seat in the tent. Through thirty-one rites that embody, according to him, the culture and history of the desert peoples ("The ceremony of the name", "The wick", "The welcome", "The wedding", "Amulets", "Tribute to the dromedaries" ...) the reader discovers...

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  • EU-Morocco fisheries agreements qualified as invalid by EU Court of Justice
    15 January 2018 Comments Off on EU-Morocco fisheries agreements qualified as invalid by EU Court of Justice

    Cour de justice de l’Union européenne COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE n° 1/18 Luxembourg, le 10 janvier 2018 Conclusions de l’avocat général dans l’affaire C-266/16 The Queen et Western Sahara Campaign/Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs et Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs According to Advocate General Wathelet, the fisheries agreement between the…

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  • urgent: 15 Saharawi students tried on appeal, trial postponed to March 13, 2018
    11 January 2018 Comments Off on urgent: 15 Saharawi students tried on appeal, trial postponed to March 13, 2018

    The 15 students were arrested in the first months of 2016. They were all mistreated and tortured by the Moroccan police during their interrogations. Many have started hunger strikes in protest against this mistreatment and the lack of a real investigation to know the causes of the death of a Moroccan civilian during one of…

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  • New book, Pierre Bonte : Identities and social & cultural change in West Sahara
    2 January 2018 Comments Off on New book, Pierre Bonte : Identities and social & cultural change in West Sahara

    BONTE Pierre, Identités et changement socioculturel dans l’Ouest saharien (Mauritanie, Sahara Occidental, Maroc), Paris, Karthala, 2017 This book deals with the evolution of the West Saharan region within the boundaries imposed on local populations by the Spanish and French colonizers, a development marked by a process of late decolonization and still unfinished according to international…

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  • Conference Alice Wilson – Sovereignty in exile – Paris, 29 January 2018, 17h
    30 December 2017 Comments Off on Conference Alice Wilson – Sovereignty in exile – Paris, 29 January 2018, 17h

    Monday the 29th of January 2018, 17h-19h, Alice Wilson, Lecturer at the University of Sussex, will present in French her book “Sovereignty in exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement governs”, published in 2016. Sovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state….

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  • New publication : Victims of Mines in Western Sahara
    30 December 2017 Comments Off on New publication : Victims of Mines in Western Sahara

    MARTIN BERISTAIN Carlos, SEPULVEDA APARICIO Gisela, ESCOBAR CASAS Edi, El fuego escondido: Las víctimas de minas en el Sáhara Occidental, Bilbao, Hegoa, 2017, 1vol; 271pp; 23cms, 978-84-16257-29-4, Español This investigation is based on testimonies of 154 Saharawi victims of mines on both sides of the wall built by Morocco and some key witnesses. It gives…

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  • Call for contributions – ASAI – Bologna, 5-7 September 2018
    29 December 2017 Comments Off on Call for contributions – ASAI – Bologna, 5-7 September 2018

    ASAI V Fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia) Plural Africa : Politics, knowledge and social dynamics in time and space Department of Political and Social Sciences – University of Bologna, 5-7 September 2018 ASAI V Bologna – Call for panels – Eng

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