January 2015

Addis Ababa, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - A Saharawi delegation chaired by Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, takes part at the 26th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council, kicked off Monday in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.


The delegation also composed of the Minister in Charge of Africa, Hamdi Beiha, the Permanent Representative to the AU, Lamine Baali, Secretary General of Women Union, Fatma Mehdi. (SPS)


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El Aaiun (occupied territories), Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Saharawi prisoner, Abdelbagi Aliyen Antahah, on Monday died of torture inside the Moroccan Black Prison, said the Saharawi ministry of occupied territories, diaspora and rural areas.


According to the source, Abdelbagi, 22 years old, was undergoing a-year-and-a-half prison sentence, before being attacked to death by the jail’s administration.


In solitary confinement since Wednesday, the prisoner was subjected to severe torture until he lost consciousness.

Algiers, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Saharawi Red Crescent (CRS), Yahia Buhobeini, warned Tuesday the international community against attempts to discourage donors in granting the aid to Sahrawi refugees after the recent release of an EU report on humanitarian aid from 2007.

Washington, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has called upon the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), which prepares to, to hold Morocco to account for violating the rights the people of the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara.

Havana (Cuba), January 27, 2015 (SPS) - Cuban Students Union voiced “unconditioned” solidarity with the just struggle of Sahrawi people, expressing commitment to continue sensitizing about the Saharawi cause.


In a meeting with the responsible of Saharawi students currently in Cuba, External Relations Secretary of the Cuban Students Union expressed commitment to continue awareness action in the country about the Saharawi cause.

Addis Ababa, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Zimbabwe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, on Monday underlined that Western Sahara remains “core issue” on agenda of the African Union (AU) and a “big responsibility” on its shoulders.


Speaking at the 26th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council, underway in Addis Ababa, Minister Mumbengegwi said: “the right to self-determination is a principle the African peoples and AU have fought for.”

Algiers, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - US State Department official affirmed on Sunday, that the United States has not changed its position with regard to the conflict in Western Sahara, and still supports the UN efforts to reach a peaceful, lasting and mutually acceptable solution.

Birlehlu  (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, urged  the UN Security Council to stop seabed oil drilling on the coast of occupied Western Sahara, considering the drilling operation underway in Western Sahara as “a serious provocation and a real threat to peace and stability in Western Sahara and the Maghreb region,” in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Below is the full text of the letter:

Birlehlu  (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, protesting Kosmos Energy drilling activities and urging the UN Security Council to stop seabed oil drilling on the coast of occupied Western Sahara. President Abdeaziz considered the drilling operation underway in Western Sahara as “a serious provocation and a real threat to peace and stability in Western Sahara and the Maghreb region.”

Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek confirmed Saturday “the plans of the Moroccan occupying State that aim to involve actors from around the world, including African entities, in our country must be strongly condemned and boycotted because they violate the Charter and the resolutions of the African Union and the United Nations, in a letter to Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

Following is the complete text of the letter:  

Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek urged Saturday the African Union to take all necessary steps and actions at the AU level and to make representations to the Chairman of the Crans Montana Forum and the associated partners and sponsors in order to refrain from holding their forum in the occupied parts of an AU Member State, the Sahrawi Republic.

Shaheed Elhafedh, January 25, 2015 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist, President of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave human rights violations (ASVDH), Brahim Dahane,called the most influential members of the UN to act as the guarantor of peace and mediation, in an interview with Swiss newspaper, mail, published in its Saturday edition.

Ait Melloul (Morocco) January 25, 2015 (SPS) – the Saharawi political prisoner Abdul Khaliq Almuati, suffers a serious health situation, due to complications of the open hunger strike he started ten days ago in the Moroccan jail Ait Melloul.

Brussels (Belgium), January 25, 2015 (SPS) - European Anti-Fraud Office (EAFO)'s report about EU humanitarian aid to Sahrawi refugees, dating from 2007, was "exhumed" from their archives with the aim of "misleading and distracting" Europe, Mohamed Sidati, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)'s deputy minister for Europe, said Saturday in a statement.

The "exhumation" of the report "amounts simply to a manipulative and ill-informed attempt to taint the image of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi refugees," the statement underlined.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) January 25, 2015 (SPS) – A delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), including the Secretary General of the Women Union, Fatma Elmehdi, and Senior Advisor at the Sahrawi embassy in Ethiopia, Baba Omar Elbardi, took part Saturday at the third ministerial Congress of the African states signatory to the convention on the establishment of the African Agency for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Maputo (Mozambique) January 24, 2015 (SPS) the president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Africa Mr. Dalfino Guila, announced that Mozambique supports the candidacy of the Saharawi Youth to the presidency of WFDY in Africa.

Mr. Dalfino Guila renewed, during a meeting with the Saharawi Ambassador to Mozambique Mr. Wadadi Sheikh Ahmed Heiba, unconditional support of Mozambique to the “just” and “legal” cause of the Saharawi people.

Bruxelles, January 24, 2015 (SPS) – “A recent article by French news agency AFP, claiming EU aid to Sahrawi refugees is being diverted, amounts simply to a manipulative and ill-informed attemptto taint the image of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi refugees, as well as their hostcountry Algeria, which assists the refugees and facilitates the delivery of the humanitarian aid,” said Friday Mohamed Sidati, the Minister Delegate for Europe, in a statement.

Birlehlu (liberated territories), January 24, 2015 (SPS) - The president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Mohamed Abdelaziz denounced Thursday Morocco's attempts to undermine the work of the United Nations' representatives and missions in Western Sahara, warning against any attempt to swerve the decolonization process in the region from its objective.

Addis Ababa, Jan 23, 2015 (SPS) - The AU Permanent Representative Committee’s Sub-Committee on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Africa on Thursday indicated that the situation in Western Sahara is still at standstill, while the Saharawis continue to live in refugee camps in Algeria for nearly 40 years.


The Sub-Committee said, in a report, that the Saharawi refugees continue to live in refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, since nearly 40 years amid a continuous decrease in humanitarian aid.

Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Jan 23, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz on Thursday warned against any attempt from the part of Morocco aimed at deviate the completion of decolonization process in Western Sahara.