Edaoura, 40 km north of al-`Ayun, forcing indigenous inhabitants to leave. Moroccan gendarmes also forced the Sahrawi families to cede their land-tenure rights to the Moroccan National Agency for Land Conservation, Cadaster and Cartography in favor of Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy for a planned solar-power-generation project.[i]

[i] Greenwashing Occupation: How Morocco’s renewable energy projects in occupied Western Sahara prolong the conflict over the last colony in Africa (WSRW, October 2021), pp. 11, 13, 19, 29, https://vest-sahara.s3.amazonaws.com/wsrw/feature-images/File/399/615d3ac8c4c0d_Greenwashing_Web.pdf; Daniel Stemler, “Morocco Pushes Huge Renewables Agenda In Disputed Western Sahara,” Oil Price (19 November 2016), https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Morocco-Pushes-Huge-Renewables-Agenda-In-Disputed-Western-Sahara.html; “Dirty green energy on occupied land,” Western Sahara Resources Watch (21 July 2020); Équipe Média, op. cit..

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