May 2011

Afrol News, 6 May

Yamoussoukro - Alassane Ouattara on Friday formally took the oath of the President of Côte d'Ivoire, five months after he won the Ivorian presidential elections.

Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps) May 28, 2011 (SPS) - Polisario Front renewed Friday its readiness to cooperate with the UN secretary general and his personal envoy, Christopher Ross, to accelerate the decolonization in Western Sahara and enable the Saharawis of their inalienable right of self-determination and independence, during a meeting of its bureau.

Politics 5/27/2011 5:48:00 PM

CAIRO, May 27 (KUNA) -- Ahmad Bin Helli, Arab League Deputy Secretary General, declared fresh Arab diplomatic moves to support the Palestinian cause along with seeking the issue of an official decision from the UN recognizing the independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital on the basis of 1967 borders.

IMF ready to lend $35 bn to needy Arab countries

By AFP May 27, 2011, 5:28 pm
DEAUVILLE: The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said it was prepared to lend about $35 billion to oil importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa region.

But that was a small part of the more than $300 billion the region could require over the next two years, even before reforms, it said.

New York, May 27, 2011 (SPS) - The United Nations Spokesman, Mr. Martin Nesirky, announced Thursday that the seventh round of preliminary negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco “will be held from June 5 to 7 in Manhasset, a suburb of New York.”

Rabat (Morocco) May 27, 2011 (SPS) - The Moroccan Association for Human Rights announced Thursday its readiness to expose the violations of human rights and public freedoms before the international justice, in addition to hold accountable those responsible in Morocco.

Rome, May 26, 2011 (SPS) - Saharawi human rights activist Ahmed Naciri, recently released from the prison of Salé (Morocco), denounced the Moroccan repression against the Saharawi in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, at the end of a meeting with Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Rights of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Mr. Furio Colombo and co-chair of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with the Saharawi people, Ms. Carmen Motta.

Assa (southern Morocco), May 26, 2011 (SPS) - The inhabitants in the city of Assa has received Saharawi political prisoners Hassan Elhairech and Hamza Chiyahou, released recently by the Moroccan authorities after spending more than 18 months in prison.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), May 26, 2011 (SPS) – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), took part in the special session of the African Union Assembly on peace and security in the continent, held Wednesday in the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

Boujdour (occupied territories), May 26, 2011 (SPS) - twelve Saharawi have wounded Wednesday, including serious injuries following an intervention by the Moroccan forces of repression against a peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of Boujdour, calling for the withdrawal of Moroccan occupation from Western Sahara, according to a statement of the Ministry in charge of the Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.

Gleimim (South Morocco), May 26, 2011 (SPS) - The Spanish citizen Ms. Maria Belen Lopez Diaz, and her family were attacked and robbed around, by a Moroccan soldier in Hay Elfila in Gleimim, South Morocco, a Saharawi human rights resource indicated.

Shaheed El Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), May 24, 2011 (SPS) - A round table for coordination and promotion of food supplies to Saharawi refugees has started Wednesday at Saharawi Red Crescent in participation of NGOs active in refugee camps.

Bir Lehlou (Liberated Territories), May 25, 2011 (SPS) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, has felicitated the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, on the 45th anniversary of Independence the Republic of Guyana, in a letter received by SPS Wednesday.

Bir Lehlou (Liberated Territories), May 25, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has congratulated the President of the Republic of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, on the 45th Anniversary of the Independence of his country, in a message reached SPS Wednesday.

Budapest, May 22, 2011 (SPS) - The Task Force of the European Coordination for Solidarity with the People of Western Sahara (EUCOCO), affirmed that any solution to the conflict of Western Sahara “should passes through respect to the right of the Saharawis to self-determination.”

Bir Lehlou (refugee camps) May 21, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, called Saturday on the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to urgently intervene to ensure protection for the Saharawi civilians in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

In a letter reached Saturday SPS, the President of the Republic drew attention of Ban Ki-moon to the brutal attack of the Moroccan occupation authorities on house of Martyr Dambar’s family on last Thursday, which led to 40 injuries.

Canberra (Australia) May 22, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi human rights activist, Aicha Dahane, concluded Sunday her three-week tour in Australia, where she visited cities of Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Perth to address human rights situation in the occupied Western Sahara to the public opinion, according to the Polisario Front Representation in Australia.

Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camp) May 21, 2010 (SPS) - “All the national options including the resumption for armed struggle remain obtainable,” the Spokesman for the Saharawi National Council, Mr. Khatri Addouh, confirmed in a lecture marking the 38th anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle and 6th anniversary of the Intifada of Independence in occupied Western Sahara.

Akader (Morocco) May 21, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi students in the Moroccan university of Akader commemorated Friday the 38th and 6th anniversaries of the outbreak of armed struggle and the Intifada of Independence in Western Sahara.

The event was attended by Moroccan students and sympathizers, who congratulate the Saharawi people and the Polisario Front on the occasion of the outbreak of armed struggle.

Addis Ababa, May 21, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Ambassador in Ethiopia and African Union, Dr. Sidi M. Omar, has categorically denied allegations of the Former U.S. Ambassador, Edward Gabriel, about involvement of memebers of the Polisario Front in the ongoing conflict in Libya.