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Polisario Front 14th Congress to be held next year (official)

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Chahid Al hafed (refugee camps), Sept 4, 2014 (SPS) - The 14th congress of the Frente Polisario is set for the next year (2015), stated a communiqué concluded the 9th regular session of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, convened on 1-3 September 2014.


Chaired by the President of the Republic Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, the session decided to hold the 14th congress during the year 2015, within the deadlines prescribed by the basic law of the Polisario Front.

Spanish delegation banned from visiting occupied territories of Western Sahara

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El Aaiun (Occupied Teritories), September 1, 2014 (SPS) - The Moroccan authorities prevented Saturday a Spanish delegation from entering the occupied city of El Aaiun, Western Sahara.

 

The delegation which consisted  personalities representing the associations of solidarity with the Sahrawi people in Castilla y Leon, was led by the mayor of Zamora, Miss Rosa Valdion, from the Popular Party, reported the Spanish media europa press. 

 

President of Republic condemns Morocco continuous expulsions of international observers

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Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), September 1, 2014 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has denounced Moroccan’s continuous state of siege on the occupied territories of Western Sahara and policy of deterrence and expulsion against independent international observers.    

 

 

POLISARIO Front Representative in Denmark voices concerns of Saharawi side about Moroccan army recent escalation in occupied Western Sahara

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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.

 

 

Prime Minister receives WFP’s country director in Algeria

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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.

Saharawi students urged to join People’s Liberation Army (communiqué)

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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.

Council of Ministers hails success of work of UESARIO 2nd Congress

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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.”

Basque activists expelled from occupied El Aaiun

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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.

Young Saharawi dies in landmine explosion near occupied Boujdour

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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.

UESARIO 2nd Congress: international community, responsible for impasse in Western Sahara

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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.

UESARIO elects new Secretary General

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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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Western Sahara: New round of negotiation depends on success of Ross next visit

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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).

 

Moroccan occupation between pressure of international community, Saharawis’ fight

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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.

 

President Abdelaziz urges UN to intervene to protect Sahrawi human rights delegation

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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.

 

Moroccan occupation faces international community pressure, struggle of Saharawi people (President of Republic)

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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.     

 

Malta Prime Minister receives UJSARIO Secretary General

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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.

 

Polisario Front condemns mistreatment of Sahrawi human rights delegation

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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.

 

Saharawi Embassy in Algiers denounces mistreatment against Saharawi delegation at Casablanca airport

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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.