El Aaiun (occupied territories), July 31, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi journalist Abdrabu Badi was arrested late in yesterday’s night by Moroccan policemen wearing civil clothes in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, informed the Executive Office of the Collective of Saharawi Defenders of Human Rights (CODESA).
El Aaiun (occupied territories), July 31, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi citizen Ms. Lala Bakay, 68 years, died Tuesday in the occuoied city of El Aaiun around 01:00 in the morning due to serious injuries at the level of head, after a car of the Moroccan police run over her, according to a statement of the Executive Bureau of the Collective of Saharawi Defenders of Human Rights (CODESA).
Shaheed Al hafed (refugee camps), July 31, 2012 (SPS) - The Polisario Front has described the speech of Moroccan king, addressed on Monday marking the so-called throne feast in Morocco, as “disappointing” to the hopes of international community, for its flagrant intransigence and absence of the political will to resolve the Western Sahara conflict, in a statement concluded a meeting of the Office of POLISARIO National Secretariat chaired by its Secretary General and President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
Algiers, July 30, 2012 (SPS) - The Algerian National Committee for Support to the Sahrawi People (CNASPS) considered the Spanish government’s decision to bringing home aid workers from the Sahrawi refugees camps as a “ pure and simple abandonment” of the Saharawi refugees, calling it to cancel this “disgraceful” decision.
Madrid, July 30, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Coordination of Spanish Associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CEAS-Sahara), José Taboada, said Monday that a group of 20 Spanish aid workers expected to set foot on August 7 in the Saharawi refugee camps, according to the Spanish Press Agency (EFE).
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), July 30, 2012 (SPS) - The Spanish aid worker Pepe Oropesa, who choose to stay in the Saharawi refugee camps after his country’s government repatriate aid workers, has expressed his confidence on the security measures taken by the Polisario Front to protect the foreigners and aid workers in the camps, in a statements on Monday to SPS.
Shaheed Al hafed (refugee camps), July 30, 2012 (SPS) - At the invitation of the Saharawi Red Crescent, a Turkish delegation of Friendship Stone’s Charity Association is making a working and solidarity visit to the Saharawi refugee camps lasts three days to preview conditions of the Saharawi refugees.
The delegation expected to visit some Wilayas and municipalities of the Saharawi Republic, and will have meetings with officials and citizens, according to a statement of the Saharawi Red Crescent.
Algiers, July 29, 2012 (SPS) - The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) officially called on Morocco to allow a fact-finding mission to visit the occupied territories of Western Sahara and to inquire about the situation of human rights, the Algerian National Committee for Support to Saharawi People (CNASPS) said Sunday in Algiers.
Madrid, July 29, 2012 (SPS) - The Spanish associations of friendship and solidarity with the Saharawi people have condemned Spain’s unilateral decision to bring home its cooperators from the Saharawi refugee camps.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugeecamps), July 29, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the POLISARIO Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, oversaw Saturday the investiture of the Supreme Judicial Council, in the presence members of the National Secretariat, government and judiciary.
In his speech on the occasion, President of Republic emphasized that improving the noble tasks of the Institution “depends on the cooperation and collective integration.”
Abuja, July 29, 2012 (SPS) - Work of the 7th summit of African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM) wrapped up Friday in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, with the ratification of an ambitious plan of action over the next two years 2012-2014 aiming to “make African woman at the heart of the continent’s battle to consolidate the foundations of peace, conflict resolution by peaceful means and winning the battle of development based on pairing between human development and economic progress.”
Bir lehlou (liberated territories), July 29, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi Government has expressed regret for the decision taken by Spanish Government to repatriate Spanish cooperators working in the humanitarian aid in the Saharawi refugee camps, according to a written statement by the Saharawi Minister of Foreign Affairs, reached Saturday SPS.
Abuja, July 27, 2012 (SPS) - The Minister of Culture, Ms. Khadija Hamdi, has called, in a speech during the opening session of 7th Summit of African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), for dispatching a fact-finding mission to the Saharawi Republic to preview the pivotal role played by women to promote the culture of peaceful resistance and strengthening it.
Extremadura (Spain), July 27, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Parliament of Extremadura, Mr. Fernando Manzano, called Thursday on the Government of Spain “to actively engage” in the search for a settlement to the conflict of Western Sahara, during a reception Polisario Front’s delegation led by National Council President Mr. Khatri Addouh and in the presence of a number of Sahrawi children who spend the summer holiday in the Province.
Shaheed Elhafed (Refugee Camps)July 26, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi government has denounced on Wednesday Morocco's intransigence which hinders the UN efforts, said statement issued by a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The Council of Ministers discussed the visit of UN Special Representative Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber to the parties of the conflict, recalling the Moroccan refuse to cooperate with Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Ambassador Christopher Ross.
Kassel(Germany), July 25, 2012 (SPS) - Over the last two weeks, several media and cultural activities have been organized within the framework of Sharawi participation at dOCUMENTA ,one of world's biggest contemporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art in Kassel, central Germany, according to statement of Polisaeio representation in Berlin.
The Polisario Front representative along with professors and artists presented several media evenings dealt with different sides of the Saharawi cause, said the source.
Rome, July 25, 2012 (SPS) - The American human rights activist , Kerry Kennedy Tuesday condemned the aggression the children of the Sahrawi activist for human rights, Haidar, on July 8.
“What happened to those children recently unleashed a wave of indignation in me, mixed with concern for the welfare and security of the children of the Sahrawi activist for human rights, "said Kerry Kennedy, thedaughter of formerU.S. PresidentJFK, in column of the Italian newspaper “Fatto Quotidiano”.
Shahees Elhafed (Refugee Camps) July 24, 2012 (SPS) - The National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has emphasized the need to accelerate the empowerment of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to play its full role in monitoring and reporting human rights and to move independently in an international zone under responsibility of the United Nations, said Tuesday statement culminated a meeting of NS under chairmanship of the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front and the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
Algiers, July 23, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS), Mr. Mehrez Lamari, announced Monday in Algiers that his organization and Algerian-Yemeni Brotherhood Association have agreed to work towards the establishment of Arab committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people.