In 2020, the Swedish mining equipment company Epiroc announced that it would no longer supply the Bou Craa phosphate mine, which is in the Western Sahara but operated by Morocco.

The phosphate is extracted from the Bou Craa mine, which is operated by Phosphates de Boucraa (Phosboucraa), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Morocco’s state-owned Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP).

The most spectacular mine in Western Sahara is in Bou Craa, from which 10 percent of OCP SA’s profits come; Bou Craa, which is known as “the world’s longest conveyor belt system,” carries ...

The Bou Craa mine in the Western Sahara is home to one of the largest reserves in the world of phosphate, a critical ingredient in agricultural fertilizer.

The occupied Western Sahara Around 40,000 Sahrawis live in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, guarded by 150,000 Moroccan soldiers. They live in slums, as prisoners in their own towns, unable ...

Bou Craa is a large Moroccan-controlled mine in Western Saharam, but much of the region’s phosphate reserves actually remain untapped.

In the coming days, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, will visit the Tindouf camps, the Polisario’s permanent secretariat announced in a ...

Vowing to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza, US President Donald Trump has also set his sights on Western Sahara, adding urgency to talks that show signs of progress but remain far from settled.

As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the United Nations climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, we report on an issue that is largely ignored: Morocco’s 41-year occupation of the Western Sahara. Many ...

«Russia is assisting Morocco in seeking a resolution to the Western Sahara conflict», announced Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He emphasized that the issue «can only be resolved on the ...