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Oct 29, 2021 · Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony believed to have considerable offshore oil deposits and mineral resources, in 1975, sparking a conflict with the Polisario Front. The U.N. brokered the 1991 cease-fire and established a peacekeeping mission to monitor the truce and help prepare a referendum on the territory’s future that ...
Apr 10, 2022 · The well was drilled in 2,900 metres of water to a total depth of 6,296 metres. Wood Mackenzie is reported in various oil industry publications as saying that Venus may hold recoverable oil resources of about 3Billion barrels of oil, which positions it as Sub-Sahara Africa’s largest ever oil discovery.
Apr 20, 2012 · Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount ...
Aug 1, 2022 · Morocco has illegally occupied Western Sahara with tacit European and American blessing since 1975. It controls roughly three fourths of the territory, including its major cities and economic ...
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Dec 11, 2021 · “The sound of gushing oil and roaring fires is still in my memory,” remembers Dr Samira Omar Asem, the principal research scientist at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR).
Nov 26, 2023 · A sparsely populated and largely uninhabitable territory, the Western Sahara was a Spanish colony until as recently as 1976. Moroccan troops now occupy about 70%, and it has sent in civilian ...
Mar 24, 2017 · While the shifts between a green Sahara and a desert do constitute a type of climate change, it’s important to understand that the mechanism differs from what we think of as anthropogenic (human ...
