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Asturias (Spain), Jan 29, 2014 (SPS) - Governor of the Wilaya of El Aaiun Mr. Hamma Mohamed Salem started as from last Monday a working visit to the region of Asurias, Spain.


The Saharawi official is accompanied by Mr. Yahya Mohamed Cheikh, vice-Polisario Front’s representative in the region.


Governor Hamma was received at the Municipality of Avilés by its Mayor Mrs. Pilar Varela Díaz, along with representatives of the political parties and civil society of Asturias.

Algiers, Jan 29, 2014 (SPS) - "Morocco’s torture, prisons, and unfair trials will not end up the Saharawi people’s determination to wrest independence," said the Saharawi Ambassador in Algeria Mr. Brahim Ghali, in an act of solidarity with Saharawi people organized Tuesday in Algiers by the Rally for Algerian Hope Party.


"We confirm to Morocco and those who support it that the Saharawi people are determined to wrest their independence and make any sacrifice to achieve their goal," stated Mr. Brahim Ghali.

Addis Ababa, Jan 29, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz arrived this morning in Addis Ababa, capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ahead of the 22nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, to be held in Addis Ababa on 30-31 January, 2014.

Algiers, Jan 28, 2014 (SPS) - President of the Rally for Algeria Hope (TAJ) Mr. Amar Ghoul called on the international organizations and people of conscience to stand, with their strongest term, by the side of Saharawi people, underscoring the right of the Saharawi people to freedom and independence.


“It is high time for everybody to stand bravely so to put an end to the suffering of Saharawi people,” said Mr. Ghoul, in a statement to the press during an act of solidarity organized by the Rally of Algerian Hope.

Addis Ababa, Jan 28, 2014 (SPS) - The Saharawi Republic (SADR) has submitted through the AU Department of Legal Affairs a range of treaties, conventions and protocols of the African Unity Organization and African Union.


Following is a list of the treaties, agreements and protocols signed by SADR:


1- The African Nuclear Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty), which was adopted in Cairo (Egypt) on April 11th, 1996.

Addis Ababa, Jan 28, 2014 (SPS) - The 24th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union continue its work for the second day, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Addis Ababa, Jan 28, 2014 (SPS) - Algeria and Ethiopia has expressed support to the efforts undertaken by the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Mr. Christopher Ross, which aims to find a settlement to the Western Sahara conflict providing for the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.

Smara (Occupied territories), January 27, 2014 (SPS) -  Sahrawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara organized  Saturday a peaceful demonstration in Shaheed Saeed Dembar neighborhood, calling for the expansion of the prerogatives of MINURSO to include human rights monitoring in the occupied territories of Western Sahara,  according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.

The demonstrators also called for enabling  the Saharawi people to its right of  self -determination through a free and democratic referendum.

El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), January 26, 2014 (SPS) - Saharawi political prisoner Abdeslam Loumadi started Saturday an unlimited hunger strike at the Carcel Negra jail in El Aaiun (occupied territories of Western Sahara), in protest of the mistreatment he underwent in police stations.

Abdeslam Loumadi demands the opening of an inquiry into the torture he has been subjected to and the rape threats he has received.

He also requests to be transferred to a jail including Saharawi political prisoners.

Washington (United states), January 26, 2014 (SPS) - The chairman of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy, has called on the UN Security Council to include, in 2014, human rights monitoring prerogative in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

In an article published by the website of the US news TV channel CNN, Kennedy called on the United Nations Security Council, which is to meet in April to discuss the issue of occupied Western Sahara.

Accra, Jan 25, 2014 (SPS) - Editor of the Ghanaian newspaper “Daily Graphic” Mr Ransford Tetteh indicated Friday that everybody must “jointly fight together to ensure that Morocco respected the UN resolution so that all of us can contribute to the development of our continent.”


In a visit by the Saharawi Ambassador in Ghana Mr. Mahjub Sidina to the Daily Graphic’s headquarters, the Editor Mr. Ransford Tetteh said the world had become a global village where what was happening in Saharawi Republic should be of concern to all.”

Nouakchott, Jan 25, 2014 (SPS) - The UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, received today in Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, by Dr. Moulay Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.

Shaheed El Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps), January 25, 2014 (SPS) - The visit of UN Secretary General Personal Envoy Christopher Ross in the region shows the interest the international community has for the Sahrawi issue, Speaker of the Sahrawi Parliament Khatri Eddouh said Thursday in Shaheed El Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps).

Shaheed El Hafed ( Saharawi refugee camps), January 24, 2014 (SPS) - The Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Thursday called on the UN to take the necessary steps to implement the commitments of Western Sahara decolonization, allowing the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence through the urgent organization of a free and fair referendum.

Shaheed El Hafed, January 23, 2014 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary- General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz,  received Thursday evening the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross.

During the meeting, the President of the Republic reiterated the readiness of the Polisario Front to boost the negotiations forward  in order to achieve the self-determination of the Saharawi people through free, just and fair referendum.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Jan 23, 2014 (SPS) - Polisario Front’s Representative to the United Nations, Mr. Boukhari Ahmed, said Wednesday at Chahid Al Hafed , Saharawi refugee camps, that the region’s future “is closely linked to a just and definitive solution to Western Sahara issue.”

New York, Jan 22, 2014 (SPS) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced the continuous violation of human rights by Morocco in Western Sahara, citing the unfair trials and police violence against Sahrawi peaceful demonstrators claiming their right to self-determination.

Mheiriz (liberated territories), Jan 22, 2014 (SPS) - Teams of the Saharawi National Gendarmerie, operating in the 5th Military Region, have seized a total of 824 kilos of cannabis were to be smuggled to drug gang operating between Morocco and northern Mali, informed a Saharawi security source.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Jan 22, 2014 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, holds in these moments at Dar Diaf (Guest House), in the Saharawi refugee camps, a working meeting with the Polisario Front’s delegation to the negotiations with Morocco.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Jan 22, 2014 (SPS) - Polisario Front has reiterated willingness of the Saharawi party to cooperate “constructively” with the efforts being made by the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy Mr. Christopher Ross, aiming at decolonizing the Western Sahara.