New York, June 18, 2011 (SPS) - The Security Council unanimously recommended on Friday that Ban Ki-moon be re-elected as U.N. secretary-general, virtually assuring the South Korean diplomat of five more years in the top U.N. job.
Rabat, June 18, 2011 (SPS) - The Moroccan February 20 Movement has called for nationwide protests in the many cities against constitutional reforms proposed by the Moroccan king in a television address on Friday.
Auserd (refugee camps) June 18, 2011 (SPS) - The Director of the North African desk in the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Zanele Mbeki, reiterated Wednesday the support of her country to the just struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and independence, in a statement during a visit to the wilaya of Auserd, Saharawi refugee camps.
Shahid El Hafed (Refugee Camps) June 17, 2011 (SPS) -The Saharawi people commemorate Friday the 41st anniversary of the popular uprising of Zemla against Spanish colonialism, in attempt to recover its inalienable rights to freedom and independence, three years before the outbreak of the armed struggle led by the Polisario Front.
Alicante, June 17, 2011 (SPS) - The association Dar El Karama presents Friday afternoon in Alicante the documentary "Sahrawi: A people on the edge," which tells, through testimony, the tense social situation lived by the Sahrawi people after 20 years of stagnation in the process of the conflict resolution.
Madrid, June 17, 2011 (SPS) - Spanish party Union for Progress and Democracy (UPD) attempts to correct the historical injustice that has been suffered by the Saharawi workers ever since the illegal submission of Western Sahara to Morocco by Spain.
Las Palmas, June 17, 2011 (SPS) - Several Canary trade unions have united to form the first coordination for the Support of the Saharawi people, according to Canary Radio and Television.
El Aaiun (occupied territories) June 16, 2011 (SPS) .- In a letter sent by the community of Sahrawi x-prisoners to EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, the Sahrawi denounce the inclusion of their occupied territory under EU agreement signed with Morocco, Western Sahara Resource Watch .reported Wednesday.
Algiers, June 16, 2011 (SPS) - The Task Force of the European Coordination for Solidarity with the People of Western Sahara (EUCOCO) holds, Thursday in Algiers, a meeting marking the 41st anniversary of the popular uprising of June 17, 1970 in Zemla district, El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps) June 16, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Jurists Union called on the Moroccan authorities of occupation to immediately and unconditionally release all Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan jails, expressing deep concern on their serious health.
New York, June 15, 2011 (SPS)- Western Sahara issue was examined Monday by the UN Special Committee to study the situation regarding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, called "Committee of 24 ".
Shaheed El Hafed (Refugee Camps), June 14, 2011 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received Tuesday evening the German parliamentary delegation in a visit since Monday in Sahrawi refugee camps.
Shaheed El Hafed (Refugee Camps), June 14, 2011 (SPS) - The Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, received Tuesday in Shaheed El Hafed, Sahrawi refugee camps, the German parliamentary delegation in visit since Monday in the camps.
London, June 14, 2011 (SPS)- the political and social situation prevailing in Morocco does not encourage the obstinacy of the Moroccan regime vis-à-vis the Saharawi question, it increases the pressure on this country for organizing a Referendum in Western Sahara, said the Polisario Front representative in London, Mr. Lamine Baali.
Bir Lahlou, June 14, 2011 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to immediately intercede to exert the necessary pressure on the Moroccan state, to save lives of Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons, in a letter Monday .
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps) June 13, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Union of Jurists has strongly denounced neglect of the Moroccan authorities to the demands of the six Saharawi political prisoners currently in hunger strike since two months in Goulimime prison (southern Morocco).
In a statement reached Monday SPS, The Union expressed “deep concern” on the serious health of the six Saharawi hunger strikers in the Goulimime prison.
Gaza, June 12, 2011 (SPS) - Palestinian Minister of Negotiation Affairs Dr. Saeb Erekat announced on Sunday readiness to resume negotiations with Israel in case it accepted the principle of two independent states, according to 1967 borders.
Cairo (Egypt), June 12, 2011 (SPS) - Egypt's national carrier Egypt Air will resume flights to Iraq in mid-July after they were halted following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, an top official said on Sunday.
Egypt Air, one of Africa's largest airlines, will operate four weekly flights to Baghdad and three flights to north Iraq's Erbil area as of July 15, 2011, said Hussein Massoud, chairman of the Egypt Air holding company.
Johannesburg, June 12, 2011 (SPS) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday launched Africa's biggest free trade bloc aimed at enhancing cooperation between 26 nations to boost economies in the world's poorest and underdeveloped continent.
Stockholm, June 12, 2011 (SPS) - The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden has reaffirmed the support of Sweden to the right of the Saharawi people of self-determination and to the UN peace process, expressing readiness of Sweden to continue the humanitarian aid for the Saharawi refugees, during a meeting of its officials with the Saharawi Minister of Cooperation, Mr. Salek Baba Hasana.