September 2012

Johannesburg, Sept 16, 2012 (SPS) - Financial and legal experts of the African Union concluded Friday a meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss and enrich the African Risk Capacity (ARC) draft project, run under auspices of African Union and World Food Programme.


The Saharawi Republic was represented at the meeting by the financial expert Mohamed Fadel Salama Jdoud and legal expert and President of the Criminal Court Hamdi Jlili Lehbib.

Panama, Sept 16, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi Ambassador in Panama Mr. Ali Mahmud has received by the Dean of Panama’s Chiriquì University, Don. Héctor Requena Núñez, during a visit made by the Saharawi Ambassador to the University, informed a source from the Embassy in panama.


The meeting focused on the bilateral relations especially regarding training and study of students.

Bogotá (Colombia), Sept 16, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic is attending the fifth edition of Ojo al Sancocho’s Film Festival in Bogotá in Colombia, to launch Friday under the theme “Land and Territory” as a guest of honor, according to the Saharawi embassy in charge of a mission in Colombia.


More than ten documentaries made by the Saharawi Cinema School will be screened at the Festival.


The Saharawi film “Leila” by the director Silvia Munt was screened during the first night, according to the source. (SPS)

Addis Ababa, Sept 16, 2012 (SPS) - The three-day 4th Ordinary Session of African Ministers of Youth wrapped out Saturday at African Union Conference Centre in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in the presence of a Saharawi delegation led by the Minister of Youth and Sport Mr. Mohamed Moulud Mohamed Fadel.

New York, Sept 15, 2012 (SPS) - POLISARIO Representative to the UN, Mr. Boukhari Ahmed, underlined that the statements made Thursday by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, during a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister, were “a confirmation” of the U.S. support to UN efforts for “just and durable solution to the conflict of Western Sahara.”

Algiers, Spt 14, 2012 (SPS)- Humanitarian aids, including foodstuffs and school stationery, will be sent soon to Sahrawi people in the refugee camps, announced Thursday here Secretary General of Algerian Red Crescent (CRA), Lahcen Bouchakour.

Speaking during a coordination meeting for assessing the situation in Sahrawi refugee camps, Bouchakour underlined that these aids comprise 100 portable computers donated by the Canadian firm "Dassault Maghreb" to the pupils in the refugee camps.

Bir Lehlu (liberated territories) , Spt 13, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, described the decision of the Moroccan occupation to subject 23 Saharawi Political prisoners to military trial as“unjust and contradicts the international law”, in letter to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights(OHCHR) and African Union Commission.

The President considered in his letter that the Moroccan decision is a return to the regimes of oppression in middle ages.

New York, Spt 23, 2012 (SPS) - Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Juan E. Mendez, will carry out 15 to 22 September in Morocco and Western Sahara, the UN said Wednesday. The independent expert will be in Al-yun (Western Sahara) on 17 and 18 September, said the same source.

Strasburg , Spt 12, 2012 (SPS)-Minister Delegate for Europe, Mohamed Sidati today  expressed Polisario satisfaction on the

Strasburg , Spt 12, 2012 (SPS)-The European Parliament "EP" on Wednesday ratified the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination "through a democratic referendum in accordance with United Nations resolutions."

In its annual report on "Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union", the EP reaffirmed "the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination through a democratic referendum  in accordance with the UN resolutions to determine the status of Western Sahara ".

Bir Lehlu(liberated territories) , Spt 12, 2012 (SPS)-Minister of foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, put emphasis on the key role that the United States can pay in resolving the conflict of Western Sahara  in line with the dictates of international legality and UN resolutions.

In letter sent to today to Secretary of State of the United States of America, Madame Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Ould Salek recalled the global responsibility of and the leadership of the United States.

Bir Lehlu(liberated territories) , Spt 12, 2012 (SPS). - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has appealed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to “immediately intervene” to release the Saharawi political prisoners in Salé and other Moroccan jails.

In letter to Ban Ki-moon , The President of the Republic called the decision of the Moroccan occupation to subject 23 Saharawi Political prisoners to military trial “unjust and contradicts the international law”

Ait Melloul (Morocco),  Spt 11, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Yahia Mohamed el Hafed Izza has begun on Monday an open-ended hunger strike to drew attention to the arbitrary arrest that targeted him and call for fair trail, said statement of Collective of Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).

The Sahrawi political prisoner has been jailed at solitary confinement in the Moroccan prison of Ait  Melloul  since 2008.

Shahed El Hafed(Saharawi refugee camps), Spt 11, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic - Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz has appointed the new members of the of Constitutional Council under the Decree 2/3, 2004,  renewing confidence in President of the Constitutional Council, Mohamed Bouzid.

The President of the Republic appointed Mohamed Bouzeid under the Article (104) of the Constitution.

London, Spt 11, 2012 (SPS) - The Associations of Friendship and Solidarity with the Saharawi people in the United Kingdom have met last weekend to carry out a common strategy for coordination and collaboration in order to join efforts to put more pressure on the British government and raise awareness of civil society with respect for the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination,              according to statement of the Polisario representation to London.

Smara (occupied territories), Sept 10, 2012 (SPS) - A group of young Saharawis have launched, since 5 days, an open hunger strike in the occupied city of Smara, to protest the policies of exclusion, marginalization and impoverishment perpetuated by Moroccan occupation authorities against the Saharawi citizens in Western Sahara and in south of Morocco, informed a source from the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
 

Smara (refugee camps), Sept 10, 2012 (SPS) - The Annual National Conference on Education, prelude to the school login scheduled mid current Sept, kicked off Sunday in the Wilaya of Smara, in the presence of members of the POLISARIO, ministers and representatives of the Saharawi educational family.
 

Tipaza, Sept 9, 2012 (SPS) - The Algerian Future Front Party organized Sunday, on the sidelines of the summer university, an act of solidarity with the Saharawi people, in the presence of a Saharawi delegation led by Advisor to the Saharawi President Mr. Lahraitani Lehsen and representatives of the Algerian civil society.

Lisboan, Sept 9, 2012 (SPS) - A delegation of the Frente polisario has been participating, since Friday, at the Avanti’s Festival which annually organized by the Portuguese Communist Part (PCP), in order to allow the world left to meet, discuss various issues and present cultural and political presentations.

Hararae, Sept 9, 2012 (SPS) - “ZANU-PF will continue to support Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic’s quest for independence from Morocco,” said the National Chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, in a courtesy visit paid by the Saharawi Republic’s Ambassador in Zimbabwe, Daich Mohamed Saleh, quoted Wednesday the Zimbabwean Herald Online.


“Zanu-PF and the Polisario Front of Saharawi had a lot in common,” underlined Cde Khaya Moyo, criticizing Morocco for refusing to accept SADR as an independent state.