Boujdour (Refugee Camps), March 9, 2015 (SPS) - In celebration of International Women's Day, the Saharawi women in the refugee camps held Sunday a protest against foreign companies that are complicit in Morocco's plunder of their occupied homeland, Western Sahara.
In Boujdour camp, one of the Saharawi refugee camps in the south-western Algerian desert, women yesterday gathered to demand an end to the illegal exploitation of their homeland, urging the involved foreign companies to leave the territory.
The Saharawi people don't want their resources taken before they've had the chance to exercise their right to self-determination. Nor do they benefit from the economic activities, as accruing revenues go directly to Morocco and the created jobs mainly serve to attract Moroccan settlers into the territory. Nevertheless, the plunder continues. (SPS)
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