Rome, June 16, 2012 (SPS) - An international conference to raise awareness about the human rights abuses in the occupied territories of Western Sahara is to take place today in Florence, Italy, under the title: “the right to human rights: Western Sahara between occupation and self-determination”, in the presence of the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the POLISARIO Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
New York, June 16, 2012 (SPS) - The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, appointed Friday Mr. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber of Germany as his new Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (known as MINURSO), successor to the late Hany Abdel-Aziz of Egypt.
The new Representative has 28 years of experience with the United Nations and a strong background in peacekeeping direction and management, both in headquarters and in field operations.
New York, June 16, 2012 (SPS) - The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has reaffirmed its commitment to the self-determination of Saharawi people, in an intervention by Mr. Jorge Valero, Permanent REpresentative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the UN on the matter of Western Sahara in the UN Special Committee of Decolonization in New York.
New York, Jun 16, 2012 (SPS) - “South Africa will continue to support efforts to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution, which will provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara,” said Friday Mr. Maniemagen Govender, Counselor at the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the UN in statements on the matter of Western Sahara within the UN Special Committee of Decolonization in New York.
Guleimim (South Morocco) June 15, 2012 (SPS) - The Moroccan repressive forces violently dispersed Sahrawi protestors in the city of Guleimim, causing confrontations between unarmed young Saharawis and Moroccan forces at Martyr El Ouali’s street, according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 15, 2012 (SPS) - A high-level delegation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which comprises the foreign ministers of Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia, in addition to ambassadors and deputies arrived Thursday afternoon in the Saharawi refugee camps, where they received at headquarters of the presidency by the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the POLISARIO, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 15, 2012 (SPS) - The Association of Families of the Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) is organizing from June 14 to 17, 2012 a seminar on non-violence in collaboration with the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation Organisation (known as: SweFOR).
Marrakech (Morocco) June14, 2012(SPS) the Moroccan authorities, Wednesday have arrested, the Saharawi runner, Salah Din Amidan with his brothers, Abba Shikh and Mostapha, in addition to Norwegian citizen, at the airport of Marrakech, according to Saharawi judicial sources.
The sources added that the Moroccan authorities are arresting Salah and his brothers and the Norwegian citizen at Marrakech airport after their arrival from Paris in their way to the occupied territories of Western Sahara to visit Amidan’s family.
Accra, June 13, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the National MediaCommission of Ghana, Kabral Blay-Amihere, has expressed interest in a constructive cooperation with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republi, during a meeting with Ambassador of SADR in Ghana, Mahjoub Sidina , held Tuesday.
The meeting is part of visits made by the Sharawi Ambassador to inform the Ghanaian responsible for the latest developments of the Saharawi cause.
Rabat (Morocco), June 13, 2012 (SPS) - The national committee of the Moroccan party “the Democratic Way” has called for respect to the right of Saharawi people to self-determination.
"The Democratic Way" stressed the need to "rely on international legitimacy through the application of a negotiated solution based on the implementation of the principle of self-determination for the Sahrawi people which respects their right to free, fair and democratic choice ", according to statement culminated the ordinary session of the party’s national committee.
DAkhla (Saharawi refugee camps) June12, 2012(SPS) – President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz accused the Moroccan intelligence services of "attempting to compromise the struggle of the Saharawi people by linking it to terrorism and drug trafficking.
"The Moroccan intelligence services are trying to undermine the struggle of the Saharawi people by linking it to terrorism and drug trafficking," said the president in his speech at the end of meeting of political commissars of the Polisario Front in held in Dakhla from 9 to June112012.
Washington (United States)June12,2012(SPS) - New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) has confirmed illegality of any plan excluding independence as an option in relation to Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. Limiting the choice to Morocco’s autonomy plan was not in line with the international law, it stressed.
The findings of the Bar Association of New York in a study published Monday and titled "legal issues relating to Western Sahara conflict."
Shahid Alhafed(Saharawi refugee caps) June 12,2012(SPS) international symposium on the rights of the Saharawi child will be organized from 17,18 and19june2012 in the Saharawi refugee camps in the collaboration of the Saharawi youth Organization(UJSARIO)and the Saharawi Union of Jurists with the coordination of the Algerian advisory Committee to promote and protect human rights.
Dakhla (refugee camps), June 11, 2012 (SPS) - “The position of Spain regarding the Saharawi cause has seen a significant progress in the right direction since the advent of the Popular Party to power,” underlined Monday Mr. Mhamed Khaddad, Member of the POLISARIO National Secretariat and Coordinator with the MINURSO, speaking at the Governors and Secretaries’ conference taking place in the Wilaya of Dakhla, 9-11 June 2012.
Madrid, June 11, 2012 (SPS) - The Group of solidarity with the young Saharawi Lafgir Kaziza, on hunger strike since 1st of June, called on the media to attend an act of solidarity which will take place tomorrow at 12:30h in front of Morocco’s embassy in Madrid, and realized by various figures from the world of Spanish culture.
Kassel (Germany), June 11, 2012 (SPS) - The Minister of Culture of the Sahatawi Republic, Ms. Khadija Hamdi, has officially invited Ms. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA 13, to the sixth edition of ARTifariti.
Madrid, June 11, 2012 (SPS) - Demonstrations in solidarity with the Saharawi young hunger striker Lafgir Kaziza and to protest the burial of Said Dambar, without knowledge of his family, have been organized Saturday in front of the Moroccan embassy in Madrid by the Saharawi Youth Union (UJSARIO) and League of the Saharawi Students in Spain, informed a source of the POLISARIO presentation to Madrid.
Brussels, June 10, 2012 (SPS) - Friends of the Saharawi people in Belgium have organized a demonstration in solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners of Sale’s jail and with Lafgir Kaziza, who entered his 10 day of hunger strike, in front of embassy of Morocco.
The demonstrators demanded that Moroccan state halt its violations of human rights in the occupied part of Western Sahara, as to release all the Saharawi political detainees without delay.
Rabat, June 10, 2012 (SPS) - Twenty-three Sahrawi political prisoners incarcerated in the Moroccan jail of Sale, near Rabat, since the dismantling of Gdeim Izik protest camp by the Moroccan forces 8 November 2010, continue since Friday their alarming hunger strike to confirm their demands, according to a source close to their families.
Accra, June 10, 2012 (SPS) - First Deputy Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament, Dr. Doi Adjoa, has reaffirmed his country’s support to the right of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence, in a meeting with the Saharawi Ambassador to Accra Mr. Mahjub Sidana, informed a source of SADR Embassy.