{"id":1646,"date":"2009-11-19T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:26:17","slug":"remembering-the-western-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Western Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only very occasionally does the media cover anything about the Western Sahara, the last unresolved colonial issue in Africa. I wrote about the situation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/ForgottenWorld.html#WS\">a very early entry<\/a> in my long-running series called &#8220;Forgotten World&#8221; but the issue remains disputed since Morocco still lays claim to the mineral-rich territory and refuses to hold the referendum called for by the United Nations.<br \/>\nThis week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/17\/western-sahara-hunger-strike\">a story<\/a> reminded us that human rights activists are still fighting for the people of the Western Sahara to have their voice and their state recognised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only very occasionally does the media cover anything about the Western Sahara, the last unresolved colonial issue in Africa. I wrote about the situation in a very early entry in my long-running series called &#8220;Forgotten World&#8221; but the issue remains disputed since Morocco still lays claim to the mineral-rich territory and refuses to hold the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}