Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 16, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz received Monday afternoon at Guests House in Chahid Al Hafed a Spanish parliamentary delegation, at the end of a three-day working visit to the Saharawi refugee camps.
New York, June 16, 2014 (SPS) - The Frente Polisario has renewed its call on the UN Special Committee on Decolonization to send a fact-finding mission, like that of 1975, in order to update the data and developments that are taking place in Western Sahara.
Madrid, June 16, 2014 (SPS) - 4543 Saharawi children will spend the 2014 two-month summer holiday with Spanish hosting families as part of the annual programme “Vacaciones en Paz (vacations in peace), to be initiated next Wednesday.
The distribution would be as follow: Andalucia 1005, Aragon 153, 249 Asturias, Baleares 95, Canary Islands 203, Cantabria 40, Extremadura 306, Galicia 326, Castilla y León 236, Castilla La Mancha 323, Catalonia500, Valencia 178, La Rioja 38, Madrid 276, Murcia 153, Navarra 92 and the Basque Country 370.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), June 16, 2014 (SPS) - Dozen Saharawis were injured Sunday by the Moroccan repression forces, following a peaceful demonstration they held to call for a human rights mechanism within the MINURSO mandate in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
The Saharawi demonstrators demanded that a human rights mechanism be included to the prerogatives of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), calling for the release of all Saharawi political prisoners.
Shaheed Hafed, June 14, 2014 (SPS) - The Secretary General of the Belgian organization OXFAM began Saturday a working visit of two days in the Saharawi refugee camps.
The OXFAM Chief will be received by Sahrawi authorities and will hold meetings with the Saharawi civil society, NGOs, and representatives of Oxfam working in the Saharawi refugee camps.
He will visit the Sahrawi census center, projects underway in the Wilaya of Awserd funded by OXFAM, and transportation center of humanitarian aid to the Wilayas.
Madrid, June 14, 2014 (SPS) - A delegation of deputies from different political parties in Spain, including members of the Parliamentary Intergroup of friendship with the Sahrawi people, began Saturday a working visit of three days in the Saharawi refugee camps, reported today Spanish news agency EFE.
The delegation includes Buyolo Federico (PSOE), Carles Campuzano (CiU), Isabel Sánchez Robles (PNV) and Gabriel Lopez (UPyD.
London, June 14,2014 (SPS) - The International Campaign against the Wall of the Moroccan Occupation in Western Sahara has launched its website in four languages.
“We hope that the new site would become an interactive forum for exchanging ideas, information and experiences amongst us so that we all could move the campaign forward,” said Coordinator of the Campaign Dr. Sidi Omar, in a statement.
Washington, June 13, 2014 (SPS) - President Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has launched a series of courses on Western Sahara in partnership with the School of Law of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
These courses on human rights in Western Sahara occupied by Morocco were given by Professor Carlos Ruiz Miguel, one of the leading advocates of human rights of the Saharawi people and other experts some of them are members of RFKennedy Center.
Birlehlu, June 13, 2014 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek requested from the government of New Zealand to bring to an end the import to New Zealand of phosphate from occupied Western Sahara, in a letter addressed Thursday to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, Mr. Murray McCully.
London, June 12, 2014 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) published Thursday a “complete report listing all the clients, volumes, values and shipments relating to Morocco's exports of phosphate rock” from the occupied Western Sahara, indicated the organization in a statement on its official website.
Algiers, June 12, 2014 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Ibrahim Ghali said Wednesday, in Algiers, that “the Moroccan regime represents, from now on, a threat to the region’s security and stability.”
Occupied El Aaiún, June 11, 2014 (SPS) - An Amnesty International delegation paid a working visit to the occupied territories of Western Sahara and held a meeting on Monday with the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Violations of Human Rights Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH), according to Sahrawi human rights sources.
Awserd (Refugee Camps), June 10, 2014 (SPS) - The 6th Conference on the founder of the Polisario Front, Martyr El Wali Mustapha Sayed was opened Tuesday in the Wilaya of Awserd in the presence of members of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front , the SADR government and senior officers of the General Staff of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army.
Nouakchott, June 11, 2014 (SPS) - A Saharawi delegation took part in Nouakchott workshop - North Africa on the mechanisms and means of creation and management of regional internet exchange points, organized by the African Union in favor of states of North Africa.
El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), June 10, 2014 (SPS) - The Akdeim Izik Coordination for peaceful activism organised a demonstration on Friday to call for the release of the Saharawi political prisoners, reported Sahrawi human rights sources.
The demonstration took place in the occupied city of El Aaiun, at Smara Street near the Ma'atala neighbourhood, an area predominantly inhabited by Saharawi citizens.
Dakhla (Occupied Territories), June 10, 2014 (SPS) - A group of Saharawi citizens working in the fisheries sector has been assaulted Saturday to Sunday night in the occupied city of Dakhla by Moroccan settlers, reported the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community abroad.
According to the same source, several Sahrawi citizens were injured and two vehicles vandalized before the elements of the Moroccan gendarmerie that did not intervene.
Yaounde (Cameroon), June 9, 2014 (SPS) - The General Assembly of the Pan African Lawyers Union called for the protection of human rights in the Western Sahara and support for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
Galicia (Spain), June 10, 2014 (SPS) - Representative of Polisario Front in Spain Bechraya Hammoudi Beyoun said in Galicia that Spain holds the solution of the Western Saharan conflict as long as there is a strong political willingness among the Spanish officials.
Ait Meloul (Morocco), June 9, 2014 (SPS) - Sahrawi political prisoner Yahia Mohamed El Hafed has ended his hunger strike following an agreement by the prison authorities at Ait Meloul prison in Agadir, Morocco, to discuss his demands, confirmed Monday a statement of British NGO AdalaUK.
The statement also confirmed that the prison authorities have bowed to his demand to be transferred to another prison with better conditions for detainees.
Yaounde (Cameroon), June 8, 2014 (SPS) - The Saharawi Lawyers’ Union, represented by member of its Bureau, Boumedien Mohamed Lamine, took part to the Triennial General Assembly (TGA) and Conference of the Pan-African Lawyers’ Union (PALU), held between the 5 and 8 June at the Yaoundé Conference Centre, in Yaoundé, Cameroon.