Santiago de Chile, Oct 23, 2011 (SPS) - The Association of Friends of the Saharawi People of Chile has condemned the abduction of three European cooperators working in the humanitarian field in the Saharawi refugee camps, in a statement a copy of it reached Sunday SPS.
Shaheed Al Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), Oct 23, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has demanded an international condemnation to the abduction of three foreign aid workers in the Saharawi refugee camps by armed group, in a letter addressed Sunday to the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.
Copenhagen, Oct 23, 2011 (SPS) - The Danish People’s Movement against the EU has noted that with regard to the Western Sahara “it's not just in relation to these countries that the EU puts its own interests over principles of human rights, international law and peace,” pointing out to 2011 extension of fisheries agreements with Morocco.
In a dispatch published Saturday on some Danish websites, the People's Movement explained that Denmark actively fought against this fisheries agreement, reaffirming it “will continue to focus on Western Sahara.”
Shaheed Al Hafed (Saharawi Refugee Camps), October 24, 2011 (SPS)- Three European cooperators, two Spanish citizens and one from Italy, belonging to international NGOs working in Camps were kidnapped Saturday night by terrorist elements in the Sahrawi refugee camps, said a press release of the Ministry of information published on Sunday.
Smara (Saharawi refugee camps), Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The participants in ARTifariti 2011 called Saturday on the UN to fulfill its duty and finally hold the referendum of self-determination in Western, guarantee the respect of human rights in the occupied territories and immediately liberate all the Sahrawi political prisoners, according to the manifesto of ARTifariti 2011.
Shaheed Al Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has ratified a motion that frames the political seminars of its XIII Congress scheduled for the second half of next December in the liberated town of Tifariti, according to a statement issued Saturday by the Presidency of the Republic.
Brussel, Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The Polisario Front has urgently called on the EU to intervene in order to put an end to the acts of repression and killing in Western Sahara.
“We reaffirm our urgent and official call on the European Union to immediately intervene for putting an end to the acts of repression and killing,” said Mr. Mohamed Sidati, minister delegate in charge of Europe, in a letter addressed Thursday to the EU Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Catherine Ashton.
Addis Ababa, Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The Secretary of State for Youth and Sport, Mr. Mohamed Moulud Mohamed Fadel, has took part on the fourth session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Sport which held on Oct 20-21, 2011 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, under the theme “consolidation of the African renaissance through the sport”.
Abuja, Oct 22, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Ruling People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria (PDP), Mr. Abubakar Kao Baraje, has reaffirmed the support of its country to the struggle of the Saharawis for freedom and independence, which stems from “its principled traditions to support the just causes and right of peoples to self-determination,” during his hosting on Wednesday to the Saharawi Ambassador in Abuja, Mr. Oubi Bachraya.
Santiago de Chile, October 19, 2011 (SPS) - Saharawi Ambassador on a mission, Mohamed Laroussi Zroug, was received Friday by the President of the Human Rights Commission of the Chilean Senate, Mariano Ruiz-Esquide, who informed him about the latest developments concerning the humanitarian and political situation in Western Sahara, according to an officials source close to MFA.
Shaheed El Hafed, October 19, 2011 (SPS) - The President of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has indicated in an interview with Channel Medi 1 Sat, that his country adheres to its official position of "strict neutrality" regarding the conflict of Western Sahara, pointing out that Mauritania is present in the negotiations for the settlement of the Sahara conflict under the auspices of the United Nations.
New York (United Nations), October 18, 2011 (SPS) - The Polisario Front seized the Permanent Representatives of States to the United Nations on the "incongruity" of the application submitted by Morocco to be a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
The election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the period 2012-2013 is scheduled for next Friday, in which two seats must be awarded to African as a replacement of Nigeria and Gabon whose term has expired.
Algiers, October 19, 2011 (SPS) The Minister of Culture, Khadija Hamdi asserted Sunday that the fifth edition of ARTIFARITI is a means to express our solidarity with our brothers in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, suffering repression and torture by Moroccan authorities, in a statement to the Spanish agency EFE.
This year's edition is celebrated under the slogan "solidarity with the Saharawi people in its struggle for freedom" and coincides with the bloody events in the occupied city of Dakhla (Western Sahara), she added.
Rabat, October 19, 2011 (SPS) - The United Kingdom encourages the parties to the conflict of Western Sahara (Morocco and Polisario Front) to engage in the United Nations effort to reach a mutually acceptable political solution, allowing the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, affirmed Monday in Rabat the British Foreign Minister, Mr. William Hague.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), Oct 17, 2011 (SPS) - Saharawi Associations has called on the Saharawis to pour into the streets in order to demand their political, economic and civil rights, in a ceremony organized Monday in the occupied city of El Aaiun on occasion of the release of the Saharawi political prisoner, Alwali Amaidan.
June 9th School (Saharawi refugee camps), October 16, 2011 (SPS) - The Preparatory Committee of the 13th Congress of the Polisario Front, to be held next December in the Saharawi liberated territories, resumed Sunday its meetings at the headquarters of the National Council in June 9th School, to review reports of its sub-committees under the chairmanship of Mr. Khatri Aduh, president of the Saharawi National Council and chairman of Committee.
Gargarat (Western Sahara), Oct 16, 2011 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation authorities has forcibly expelled the young Saharawi, Alyen Mohamed Salem, from his country, Western Sahara, to the borders with Mauritania, after he demanded the right to job and life in dignity.
According to a statement of the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad, the young Saharawi was thrown out from the occupied city of El Aaiun to the Western Sahara borders with Mauritania earlier this week, before his documents being stripped.
Rome, Oct 14,2011 (SPS)- The Mayor of the Italian region of Tuscany, Pelago Renzo Zucchini, has called on the highest Italian authorities to intervene to put an end to repression perpetrated by Morocco against the Sahrawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, said Saturday a media source in Rome.
In a letter addressed to the Italian President and dignitaries in the Italian State, Mr. Zucchini denounced the new wave of harassment and repression carried out by Morocco against the Saharawi people in the occupied territories.
Sale (Morocco), Oct 15, 2011 (SPS) - The Moroccan authorities prevented Friday two Spanish lawyers from visiting the Saharawi human rights activist, political detainee and President of the Committee of Support UN Peace Plan and the Protection of Natural Resources of Western Sahara, Sidi Ahmed Lamjeid, in the Moroccan prison of Sale.
Sale’s administration refused the request of the Spanish lawyers, Candela Carrera and Andres Marin, to visit the human rights activist without offering an excuse.
Midrand (South Africa), Oct 15, 2011 (SPS) - The Legislative Organ of the African Union, Pan African Parliament (PAP), has called on the AU Member States and international community to impose economic sanctions on Morocco in order to comply with the international resolutions calling for the self-determination of the Saharawi people, during the conclusion of its fifth session of the second term held from Oct 3 to 14, 2011.