Banjul (Gambia), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) condemned in the strongest terms the abduction of three humanitarian NGO workers from Sahrawi Refugee Camps, in a communiqué during a meeting at its 50th Ordinary Session held from 24 October to 05 November, 2011 in Banjul, Gambia, received by SPS.
Houston, November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is very pleased to announce it has executed an Assurance Agreement for a Production Sharing Contract for the Imlili Block in the Western Sahara with Wessex Exploration PLC and Tower Resources Limited, confirmed a statement of SADR Oil and Gas Exploration, received by SPS Tuesday.
El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The European parliamentarian Willy Meyer of Spain was beaten and pushed by Moroccan police Sunday when they banished him from the airport in the Western Sahara capital of El Aaiun.
Copenhagen, (Denmark) November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Danish Organisation Afrika Kontakt received this year People’s Movement Award for its work against the EU-Morocco fisheries Agreement that illegally included Western Sahara.
"This year the price goes to an organization that is not afraid to criticize when the EU pillages in Africa," So said Lave Knud Broch from the Danish People’s Movement against the EU in his address at their national Congress, Sunday 30 October in Copenhagen.
Addis Ababa, November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The African Union (AU) condemned Tuesday the terrorist operation that led to the kidnapping of two Spaniards and an Italian from a residence of foreigners in the Sahrawi refugee camps October 23, in a statement received by SPS.
"The African Union has strongly condemned this cowardly act," said the president of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping.
Salé (Morocco) November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in the Moroccan prison of Salé (near Rabat) for their participation in the protest camp of Gdeim Izik, began Sunday an unlimited hunger strike to protest against their conditions, demand their release or a fair trial and respect for their rights in this prison.
Mérida (Spain), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Minister of Cooperation, Salek Baba, expressed Wednesday his "support" to the families of three aid workers, kidnapped for more than a week in the Sahrawi camps refugee, reported the Spanish agency Europa Press.
The Saharawi diplomat in a visit to Merida, the capital of Estremadura, met with the mayor of that city, Pedro Acedo.
El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner, Mohamed Bani, 42, appeared Thursday before the investigating judge of the military court in Rabat (Morocco), after more than 11 months in detention in the prison of Salé (near Rabat,) in relations with the events of Gdeim Izik, reported a Sahrawi judicial source.
Rabat, November 2, 2011 (SPS) - The President of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), Khadija Ryadi, expressed Tuesday "solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners on hunger strike in the prison of Salé and their families.
Algiers, November 2, 2011 (SPS) - The Ambassador and Representative of the High Commissioner of the European Union in Algeria, Lora Baez, declared that the EU "will maintain" solidarity with the Saharawi people and will continue its humanitarian aid," in a statement to the Algerian newspaper elkabar.
The European official also announced an aid of € 9 million for the Sahrawi refugees at the end of the year.
According to officials, the Europe public support since 1993 has reached 150 million euros.
Algiers, November 2, 2011 (SPS) - The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mourad Medelci, said that investigations are ongoing at various levels to release "soon" the three foreign aid workers kidnapped recently in the Saharawi refugee camps.
Shaheed El Hafed, November 2, 2011 (SPS) - Forty Sahrawi human rights defenders were "assaulted and beaten" by the Moroccan police late Monday afternoon at the airport of El Aaiun (occupied capital of Western Sahara), Sahrawi official source reported Tuesday.
From Algiers where they had participated in the second edition of the international conference in Algiers on "the right of peoples to resistance," the Sahrawi activists were "attacked by dozens of police armed with batons that insulted and offended them" for more than four hours, the source added.