“There’s a New Terrorist Threat Emerging in Western Sahara, and the World Isn’t Paying Attention”, 8 August 2014 

For 39 years, exiled Sahrawis have watched their homeland being stripped of its resources with the West's complicity…Protests are commonplace in the occupied territory…Some rights activists worry that the protests, beatings and trials will escalate now, as oil companies off the Western Saharan coast intensify their exploration. In 2005, Norway’s Government Pension Fund…started divesting in Kerr-McGee, because their operations in Western Sahara constituted an “unacceptable risk for contributing to other particularly serious violations of fundamental ethical norms.” However, Kerr-McGee’s American partners Kosmos Energy, continued the enterprise. Currently, Kosmos Energy has a drilling ship on its way to the region…Even though it is still some way from actual oil production, Kosmos Energy has gone out of its way to publicly promise that “local populations” will benefit from any discovery…We believe that economic development of the territory can and should proceed in parallel with the U.N. mediation process,” a Kosmos spokesperson tells TIME...Erik Hagen, chair of Western Sahara Resource Watch, disagrees. “If oil is struck, the Sahrawi future is forever ruined,” he says…