ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 31, 2015 (SPS) - The African Union launched Saturday in Addis Ababa, a call to member countries and to all organizations not to participate in the Crans Montana Forum, scheduled in the occupied city of Dakhla (Western Sahara) next March and considers it a violation of international law.
Bir Lahlou, January 31, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, the Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, congratulated Mr. Sergio Matarella, on his election as the new president of the Italian Republic, succeeding Mr. Giorgio Naboltano.
the President of the republic expressed, on behalf of the people and the government of the Sahrawi Republic, the warmest congratulations and best wishes for success to the Italian president in his duties.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) January 31, 2015 (SPS) - Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar expressed appreciation to the principled position of the African countries in support of the decolonization of Western Sahara.
This came during a speech in front of the African leaders on the second day of the twenty-fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he is representing the President of the Republic.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) January 31, 2015 (SPS) - Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, confirmed on Friday morning, that Moroccan continued occupation to parts of Western Sahara’s territories "renders the total liberation of Africa incomplete," on the occasion of the twenty-fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union.
“It is incomprehensible that the kingdom of Morocco continues to occupy the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic,” he added
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), January 31, 2015 (SPS) - The Executive Council of the African Union (Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs) has adopted a text reiterating its grave concern in the face of the continuous illegal occupation of the territories of Western Sahara which have not yet been visited by the ACHPR in pursuance of the decision of the Executive Council on the issue.
Nouakchott (Mauritania) January 31, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Union of forces of Mauritanian progress, Dr. Mohamed Ould Mouloud, renewed “the firm” position of his party from the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, and to support the Mauritanian position “positive neutrality”.
Aaiún (Occupied Territories), January 31, 2015 (SPS) - A group of Sahrawi journalists were attacked, Wednesday in the occupied city of Aaiún, by the Moroccan authority while they were recording a programme on the peaceful Intifada, according to Sahrawi media sources on the scene.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), January 30, 2015 (SPS) - Algeria’s proposition to adopt a declaration condemning the holding of the Crans Montana forum in the occupied city of Dakhla (Western Sahara) was supported by several countries at the African Union Executive Council (AUEC), the AU body said Thursday in Addis Ababa.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) January 30, 2015 (SPS) – The works of the 24th session of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union started Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with participation of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR).
Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar is representing the President of the Republic, alongside 40 African heads of state and government, as well as many international figures, including the King of Spain as a guest of honor.
Algiers, January 30, 2015 (SPS) - The shipping of the humanitarian aid meant to Saharawi refugees is carried out with "openness" and "rigor" and in the respect of follow-up and control mechanisms, the representatives of the European Union humanitarian aid office (ECHO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Algeria told APS on Friday.
New York, January 30, 2015 (SPS) –Polisario Front Representative to the United Nations Mr. Bukhari Ahmed has welcomed the resumption of mission of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Christopher Ross, and assumption of the duties of Ms. Kim Bolduc as the Special Representative for Western Sahara.
Birlehlu, January 30, 2015 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his coalition on their victory, in a letter received Friday by SPS.
“I write to offer you my warmest salutations, and my heartfelt congratulations on your and your coalition’s momentous victory,” said the President of the Republic in his letter.
Brussels, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - The European Union, through its High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, considers Western Sahara as a non-self-governing territory and the Kingdom of Morocco as the de facto administering power.
Addis Ababa, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - Prime Minister, Mr. Abdelkader taleb Omar, arrived Thursday morning in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, to represent the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, at the 24th ordinary session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, to be held on 30- 31 January 2015.
Prime Minister was received at Addis Ababa International Airport by the Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Tefera Deribew.
Madrid, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - Three female Spanish activists on Tuesday expelled by Moroccan authorities from the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, said the Spanish Coordination of Association in Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CEAS-Sáhara).
The three women are members of the Spanish movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people.
Addis Ababa, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - The Executive Council of the African Union on Wednesday adopted, at the end of its 26th ordinary session, the report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), about the of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
In its report, the ACHPR voiced “grave concern” over the continuous illegal occupation of the territories of Western Sahara, which the Commission could not visit.
Algiers, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - Bodies of six missing Saharawis were exhumed from three new communal graves, discovered recently by Spanish experts in the region of Smara near Amgala, said Wednesday President of the Association of Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) Abdesslam Omar.
Mijek (liberated zones), Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - One person was killed and 3 other people injured last Saturday in landmine explosion occurred in an area called Al-Nas Valley in the Saharawi occupied city of Smara, 83 Km from the liberated zone of Mijek, said Saharawi Mine Action Coordination Office.
For the source, the blast took place in the 3-km buffer zone from the Moroccan Shame Wall that divides Western Sahara.
Algiers, Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - Algeria and Niger reaffirm, in a joint statement issued on Tuesday at the end of the state visit of Niger’s President MahamadouIssoufou to Algeria, at the invitation of President of the Republic AbdelazizBouteflika, their support to the efforts of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reach a mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the Western Sahara conflict."
Copenhagen, Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - The Danish Red-Green Alliance Party has expressed “firm support” to the right of the Saharawi people to Self-determination and independence, said Tuesday MP Christian Juhl in a meeting with Mr. Abba Malainin, POLISARIO Representative to Denmark.
The Danish official voiced his party’s support to the “strict respect” of human rights in Western Sahara, calling for the need to mandate the MINURSO with human rights monitoring in occupied Western Sahara.