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Tunisian filmmaker Akram Moncer hails resistance of Saharawi people

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Dakhla (refugee camps), May 3, 2014 (SPS) - Tunisian cinema director Akram Moncer, director of “Altoyour Al-Mohagra (Migratory Birds)”, has hailed, in an interview with SPS, the resistance and steadfastness of Saharawi people, both in the camps and in occupied Western Sahara, inviting all Arabs to visit the Saharawi refugee camps to see the suffering of Saharawi people.

FiSahara is opportunity to know truth of Western Sahara conflict, confirms Moroccan journalist

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Dakhla (refugee camps), May 3, 2014 (SPS) - The U.S.-based Moroccan journalist, Samia Razougui, said Friday that her participation to the 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara), underway in the Wilaya of Dakhla, is an “opportunity” for her to be informed about the reality of Western Sahara conflict, contrary to those misinformation promoted by Moroccan authorities.

Sahrawi Women Union participates in conference of Russia Women Union

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 Moscow (Russia), May 02, 2014 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Union of  Sahrawi Women Ms. Fatma Mehdi participated Thursday in a conference organized by the Union of Russia Women in Moscow and attended by many Russian and international women organizations. 

Conference on campaign for the liberation of Saharawi political prisoners

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El Aiun (Occupied Territories),  May 2, 2014 (SPS) -  Adala UK has participated in a conference in El Aiun, organised by the coordinator of the GdeimIzik camp, following the announcement of the launch of a national and international campaign for the liberation of Saharawi political prisoners. Several other Saharawi NGOs and media representatives also attended the conference.

 

President of Republic supervises commemoration of International Workers' Day

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Shaheed Hafed, May 2, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic Secretary-General of the Polisario Front on Mohamed Abdelaziz supervised Thursday the commemoration of the International Workers' Day at the presidency.

 

The Programme of  commemoration  included the organization of a sit-in  in solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons, during which a message from Sahrawi workers to the political prisoners and a statement on the occasion were read.

 

Saharawi people share common dream for independence of Western Sahara, says filmmaker David Riker

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Dakhla (refugee camps), May 2, 2014 (SPS) - The U.S. filmmaker David Riker, editor and writter of Dirty War Documentary, has noted that everyone of the Saharawi people he spoke with, from the grandparents to the children, share “a common dream” for the independence for their land, expressing commitment to tell people in the U.S. about the plight of Saharawi people.

Prime Minister "satisfied" with Security Council's resolution

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Dakhla (Refugee Camps)- Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the resolution of the United Nations Security Council though it does not provide for the extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in the occupied Sahrawi territories.

 

Wilaya of Dakhla hosts regional festival of culture and folk arts

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Dakhla (Refugee Camps) May 1, 2014 (SPS) – The Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, hosted Thursday the Regional Festival of Culture and Folk Arts, organized under the theme "Alerting the Cultural Front to Support of the Independence Intifada," in coincidence with the 11th edition of International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara).
 
Prime  Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar supervised the opening of the traditional camp which included  Sahrawi traditional t

Congress members urge US Government for enabling MINURSO to hold referendum

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Washington, May 1, 2014 (SPS) -  Members of Congress urged Thursday the US Government to exert efforts to enable the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to carry its mandate to hold the referendum on the status of Western Sahara, in a letter to Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry. 
 
The letter which was signed by Congress Members Joseph R. pitts, Betty McCollum, Joseph P. Kennedy III, Trent Franks, Reid J.

Security Council called to find new approach in Saharawi cause (PM)

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Dakhla (refugee camps), May 1, 2014 (SPS) - Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar has urged, in a speech on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the FiSahara 11th edition, UN Security Council to find a new approach to the Saharawi cause, in case there achieved no progress this year.

FiSahara 11th edition kicks off in Wilaya of Dakhla

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Dakhla (Refugee Camps) May 1, 2014 (SPS) -  The 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) kicked off Wednesday in the Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, under the theme "cinema for human rights in Western Sahara."
 
The festival is attended by 300 international participants from different countries including filmmakers, directors, human rights activists and people in solidarity with the Saharawi people in addition to a delegat

Algeria “satisfied” with UNSC resolution on Western Sahara

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Algiers, April 30, 2014 (SPS) - Algeria Tuesday expressed “satisfaction” with the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution on Western Sahara, which extends the mandate of the MINURSO and renews the mission entrusted to Christopher Ross, as Special Envoy of UN Secretary General, said Algerian Foreign Ministry‘s spokesman Abdelaziz Benali Cherif.

UN Security Council reaffirms right to self-determination of Saharawi people

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New York, April 29, 2014 (SPS) - The Security Council of the United Nations adopted Tuesday a resolution on Western Sahara, in which the Council reiterated his call for a “political, lasting and mutually acceptable” solution providing for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.