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Lebanese police clash with protesters in Beirut

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Lebanese police have used a water cannon to disperse anti-government demonstrators on a second day of protests in the capital, Beirut. The protests have been triggered by a crisis over rubbish disposal.

Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara | Inter Press Service

This year will mark four decades since this territory the size of Britain was annexed by Morocco after Spain pulled out from its last colony of Western Sahara.

Since the ceasefire signed in 1991 between Morocco and the Polisario Front – the authority that the United Nations recognises as a legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people – Rabat has controlled almost the whole territory, including the entire Atlantic coast. The United Nations still labels Western Sahara as a “territory under an unfinished process of decolonisation”.

via Breaking the Media Blackout in Western Sahara | Inter Press Service.