August 2014

Copenhagen (Denmark), August 29, 2014 –POLISARIO Representative in Denmark Mr. Abba Malainin has today held talks in the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) with Mr. Christian Juhl, member of the Danish Parliament and Foreign Affairs Spokesman of the Red-Green Alliance Party.

During the meeting, the Saharawi Representative voiced concerns of the Saharawi side about the recent Moroccan army escalation in occupied Western Sahara.

Nairobi (Kenya), August 30, 2014 (SPS) - “Morocco has drowned the region in drugs and funded the terrorist groups” confirmed the head of the Sahrawi delegation, Ibrahim Mohamed Mahmud, secretary of state for security and documentation, during the 11th Congress of the African Committee for Security and Intelligence, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Aug 28, 2014 (SPS) - Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar received Wednesday at his office in Chahid Al Hafed, Saharawi refugee camps, the WFP’s country director in Algeria, Mr. Pedro Figueiredo.


The meeting focused on various areas of cooperation and the projects funded by the World Food Programme for the benefit of the Sahrawi refugees.

Awserd (refugee camps), Aug 27, 2014 (SPS) - The Participants in the 2nd Congress of the Union of Saharawi Students (UESARIO) urged Tuesday the Saharawi students to join the ranks of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army.


At the end of the work of the Congress, the delegates called on the Saharawi students to join the Saharawi People’s Liberation Army and move towards technical roles in order to develop the action in units of military institutions and review the option of the recovery of armed struggle.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Aug 27, 2014 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers has hailed the “admirable success” of work of the 2nd congress of the Saharawi Students Union (UESARIO), convened in the Wilaya of Awserd on 23-26 August 2014 under the theme “the Sahrawi students movement serves the national goals.”

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Aug 27, 2014 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying authorities on Tuesday expelled 6 Basque activists from the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.


The six activists are Aratz urruzmendi, Jon Sarasola, Itziar Gomez Cruzado, Nora Ayerdi and Xabier Zurutuza.


The group was arrested for hours, before being thrown out of the city towards the Moroccan city of Agadir in a taxi car.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Aug 27, 2014 (SPS) - The young Saharawi Abdallahi Ahmed Al-Kharchi on Monday died in a landmine blast, which occurred in Madalchiat, 50 km east of the occupied city of Boujdour in Western Sahara, said a Saharawi media source.


Like many areas in Western Sahara under the Moroccan occupation, Madalchiat is contaminated with thousands of anti-personnel landmines, which were planted by Moroccan army during the armed war against the Saharawi people.

Awserd (refugee camps), Aug 27, 2014 (SPS) - The 2nd Congress of the Saharawi Students Union (UESARIO) said that the current political impasse in the UN settlement of Western Sahara is still a stain on the international community, calling on the UN to shoulder responsibility vis-à-vis the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.

Awserd (Refugee Camps), August 26, 2014 (SPS) - The Students Union of Saguia El Hamra and Rio de Oro (UESARIO) elected Tuesday Moulay Brahim Mhamed the new secretary general of the organization during its II Congress held from August 23-25, in the wilaya of Awserd, Sahrawi refugee camps.

The Congress had been prolonged for 24 hours for holding the second round of the election because no candidate received the required minimum number of votes.(SPS)

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Awserd (Refugee Camps), August 26, 2014 (SPS) - The opening of a new round of negotiation between the Polisario Front and Morocco will depend on the success of the next visit of the United Nations Secretary General's special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, said the member of Polisario Front's Secretariat General and coordinator of the UN Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

Awserd (Refugee Camps), August 25, 2014 (SPS) - Sahrawi President and Polisario Front Secretary General Mohamed Abdelaziz underlined Saturday in Awserd, Sahrawi refugee camps, that the Moroccan occupation is under pressures from the international community and the Sahrawi people’s fight and commitment to its right to self-determination.

Birlehlou (Liberated Territories), August 25, 2014 (SPS) - Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz has urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to intervene immediately and take all necessary measures to protect a delegation of Sahrawi human rights activists in the airport of Casablanca in Morocco upon their return from the Sahrawi refugee camps.

Awserd (Refugee Camps) August 24, 2014 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, affirmed Saturday that the Moroccan occupation is facing   the pressure of the international community which adheres to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination in addition to the adherence of the Sahrawis to this right.     

Valletta (Malta), August 24, 2014 (SPS) - Malta Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, received the Secretary General of the Saharawi Youth Union (UJSARIO), Zein Sidahmed, during the opening ceremony of the International Festival of Socialist Youth (IUSY).

Mr. Zein leads a delegation of the Saharawi youth Union participating in the International Festival of IUSY held in Malta in the presence of thousands of young people from more than 100 countries worldwide.

Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), August 22, 2014 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz,condemned "forcefully" mistreatment by the Moroccan intelligence services against a Sahrawi human rights delegation at the Casablanca airport, which participated in the 5th edition of the summer university of the Polisario Front and SADR officials in Boumerdes, Algeria.

Algiers, August 24, 2014 (SPS) - The Embassy of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Algiers on Saturday denounced the mistreatment by Moroccan security services at the airport in Casablanca against the Saharawi delegation returning from Algeria after taking part in the 5th edition of the Summer University of Executives of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi Republic, held in Boumerdes. 

Awserd (Refugee Camps), August 23, 2014 (SPS) – The Wilaya of Awserd is hosting the Second Congress of the Students Union of Saguia El Hamra and Rio de Oro (UESARIO) on August 23-25, according to the organizers.  

More than 500 delegates and 200 representing students and youth organizations from countries around the world are invited to attend this event, as well as delegations from some Arab and African regional organizations.

Casablanca (Morocco), August 22, 2014 (SPS) - A delegation of the occupied Sahrawi territories was blocked by the Moroccan police upon its arrival at the airport in Casablanca, upon its return from Algeria, according to official sources.   

The delegation took part in the work of the summer university of the Polisario Front and SADR officials, held in Boumerdes, Algeria, from 3 to 23 August 2014, under the name of Gdeim Izik.

Birlehlou (liberated territories), August 23, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Secretary General of Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz has expressed his concern over the state of alert of the Moroccan army in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, warning against the dangerous consequences of a possible Moroccan aggression.

Birlehlou (Liberated Territories) August 22, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, confirmed that "Morocco calls into question the credibility of the United Nations and alludes to terminating the MINURSO’s mission in Western Sahara, in a letter Thursday to the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.