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Seixal (Portugal), Sept 8, 2013 (SPS) - Member of the Political Commission of the Central Committee of Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) Mr. Carlos Gonçalves has reaffirmed solidarity and commitment to the just cause of the Saharawi people and to defend their legitimate rights before Portuguese and international institutions, during a meeting with the Saharawi delegation attending the 37th PCP Festival, the main political-cultural event in the country, reported Polisario representation in Portugal.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Sept 8, 2013 (SPS) - Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar oversaw Saturday a meeting of the coordination and follow-up mechanism for the youth file, as part of the government’s periodic assessment and follow-up to this file.


The meeting examined the practical aspects of Youth Employment Programme through micro credits, whose first part will be delivered to young graduates of professional training centers and institutes.

Tunis, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Saharawi Workers Union (UGTSARIO) Mr. Mohamed Sheikh Mohamed Lehbib is taking part at the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Maghreb-Mashreq Social Forum, held on September 6th, 7th and 8th, 2013 in Tunis, according to a source of the Saharawi delegation.

Ait Melloul (Morocco), Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Omar Daoudi launched yesterday, Friday, an open hunger strike in the Moroccan Ait Melloul’s local prison, according to a human rights source.


Family of the detainee reported that her son entered into this hunger strike as a protest to the degrading ill-treatment practices he suffers inside the prison, the same source said.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Ajwad Farraha continues, for the eighth consecutive day, his open hunger strike in the Moroccan Lekhal’s prison in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, said a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora.


The state of health of the Saharawi detainee Ajwad Farrah, 29 years, is now miserable after he stopped water and sugar intake, said the source.

Brussels, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The Committee of Support to the Saharawi People in Belgium has condemned the EU-Morocco fishing agreement, signed at the end of last July, which includes Western Sahara’s territorial waters, describing it as “a blatant breach” to international law and legitimacy, according to a statement of POLISARIO Office in Brussels.

Brussels, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - The European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, known as FEMM Committee, has denounced the gross abuses of human rights perpetrated by Moroccan occupation forces against Saharawi women in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, informed Saharawi diplomatic sources.


In its report on women’s rights in the Sahel region and Western Sahara, ratified Wednesday, FEMM Committee highlighted “the important role played by Saharawi women within the Saharawi society.”

Pretoria, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - In collaboration with SADR embassy, the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) organized Thursday a seminar on Western Sahara under the theme: “for achieving a continental and international consensus to support Saharawi cause”.


The seminar was presided over by Mr. Ebrahim Ebrahim, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa.

Paris, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - Rapporteure of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury-Pasquier will head, by early October to Algeria for an information visit to help her to “complete” a report on the European Parliamentary contribution to the settlement of Western Sahara conflict, it was announced during a meeting on the matter in Paris.

Brussels, Sept 2, 2013 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch launched today, Monday, a report denouncing the “irresponsible comeback” of the French oil company Total’ in occupied Western Sahara, adding that this shows a “complete disregard of basic principles of corporate social responsibility.”


In a report published Monday, WSRW underlined that Total SA Company “carries out exploration in the territory despite the UN legal office stating it would be in violation of international law.”

Jalisco, Guadalajara (Mexico), Sept 2, 2013 (SPS) - The Saharawi Representative in Mexico Mr. Ahmed Mulay Ali paid a visit to the Municipal State of Jalisco, Mexico, in the period between 28 until 31 August 2013, where he was received by a number of distinguished political figures, according to SADR embassy.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Sept 1, 2013 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers has called on the Unite Nations Organization (UN) to shoulder its responsibilities vis-à-vis the decolonization of Western Sahara, by enabling the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination an independence.
 

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Sept 1, 2013 (SPS) - Moroccan occupation authorities have violently intervened against a peaceful sit-in organized by a group of unemployed Saharawis in Mecca Street in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, according to a human rights source.

Pretoria, Aug 31, 2013 (SPS) - African Women Organization has voiced full support to the struggle of Saharawi people for freedom and independence, in a meeting dedicated for the assessment of its experience during the past 50 years, informed Saharawi embassy in South Africa.

Oum Legta (liberated territories), Aug 31, 2013 (SPS) - Authorities of the Wilaya of Smara organized Friday a demonstration in Oum Legta region in the liberated territory of Bir Lehlou to denounce the Moroccan wall of shame in Western Sahara.


The event attended by a group of youth and student as well as authorities of the Wilaya.


The participants “strongly deplored” this military wall which constitutes a crime against humanity, calling on the international community to “urgently act” to remove it.

Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), Aug 31, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has sent a letter of congratulation to Mr. Amar Saidani on the occasion of his election as a Secretary General of the Algeria National Liberation Front (FLN).

Paris, Aug 31, 2013 (SPS) - A report, detailing how Morocco intends to build over 1000 MW (megawatts) of renewable energy plants in Western Sahara, a territory partially occupied by Morocco, was launched by the non-governmental organization Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW).


These solar and wind projects, no matter how green, will be “severely damaging” for the people of Western Sahara, warned WSRW’s coordinator Sara Eyckmans.

Anhemei, São Paulo (Brazil), Aug 26, 2013 (SPS) - The Workers Center of Brazil (Brazilian acronym; CTB) has expressed its support to the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, in a motion approved at the end of its 3rd congress, informed POLISARIO representation.

Boumerdes (Algeria), Aug 26, 2013 (SPS) - “The Saharawi people are determined to recover their freedom and independence, no matter how long or whatever the cost might be,” said Sunday Ms. Mariam Salek Hmada, Saharawi Minister of Education, in a speech delivered during the closing session of the fourth summer university of SADR Cadres, held in Boumrdes, Algeria.

Boumerdes (Algeria), Aug 26, 2013 (SPS) - Chairman of the Algerian National Committee for Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CNASPS), Mr. Mehrez Lamari, confirmed Sunday, from Boumerdes, that Algeria’s support to the Saharawi cause “is a fulfillment of the principles and ideals of the November 1st Revolution,” in a speech delivered at the closing session of the 4th Summer University of SADR Cadres.